Things tightened up on the 2d Tuesday of the fall season. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). […]

  The addition of MAN WITH A PLAN didn’t help CBS. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only adjustments from this morning’s numbers were 0.1 increases for the reruns of THE BIG BANG THEORY and ELEMENTARY. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game towered over everything on broadcast or network TV at 2.73, while NBC Sports Net’s NHL PLAYOFFS were at 0.64.  Syfy’s WWE telecast rose 0.09 to 0.71, with […]

The MLK holiday weekend will cause delays for daily national ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  This is how the ratings should roll out the next several days. We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific.) Friday January 17 nationals available Tuesday January 21 by 2 pm Saturday January 18 nationals available Wednesday […]

    It’s not exactly a surprise that History’s HATFIELDS & MCCOYS had another spectacular ratings night with its conclusion on Wednesday.  The show actually went up from its record-setting Part 1 audience to a phenomenal 14.3 million viewers, with an 18-49 audience that should be in the high 3s–not just easily beating everything on […]

  Take a look at Mitch Metcalf’s Ratings Charts post today for a detailed explanation of the effect that last night’s NFL Preseason Football had on the night’s local ratings and why.  Viewers are so thrilled that some form of football is back on the air that they’ll flock even to these relatively meaningless games, […]

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for SHARK TANK, MACGYVER and WWE SMACKDOWN.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.49/0.33/0.16 compared to last week’s 0.42/0.34/0.24.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.41/0.31.  On VH1, RUPAUL’S […]