>In one week, the curtain goes up on the new television season.  To get you ready for the madness of Premiere Week on broadcast television, we have summarized the ShowBuzzDaily ratings estimates for MONDAYS this Fall.  The first column in the chart below includes the original estimates from late May (after the network upfront presentations to […]

      NOTE TO READERS:  For the remainder of this week (4/17-19), our afternoon cable posts, which usually go up around 1:30PM PDT, will likely be posted around 5PM PDT, with text to follow.   NETWORK FINALS:  Live sports meant adjustments, with ABC’s NBA PLAYOFFS game ending up at 1.5, and NBC’s NHL PLAYOFFS […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD continued its decline, down 0.13 to a new low 0.83, with TALKING DEAD (which aired at 11PM last week after PREACHER) up 0.05 […]

Tuesday preliminary broadcast ratings:

  Small declines. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 analysis and comparisons follow the chart. […]

  BROADCAST FINLS ABC:  The PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME was at 0.95. CBS:  SWAT aired a new episode for the first time since November 12, up a tenth to 0.54.  MAGNUM PI, back from an off-week, was down a tick to 0.42, and BLUE BLOODS, ditto, was down 0.07 to 0.39. NBC:  BAKING IT was at […]

  There was nothing to get excited about on the first night of the new 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 ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 1 and Sunday March 2, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   NASCAR 4.8 rating FOX 3:15 pm Sunday Phoenix 500 (-9% from 5.3 last year) 1.5 […]