Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Thursday June 3, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

>CBS Monday was down week to week (from a 4.3 last week to a 4.0 last night) but still 10% ahead of the same night last year and #1 last night by a mile.   The other three networks were down from the same night last year, and remember that ABC’s 2.8 for the night will […]

>With no postseason baseball last night and an inferior Monday Night Football game (the NY Jets beating the winless Miami Dolphins handily), network ratings levels rebounded for the most part.  CBS won the night with a 4.0 (up 0.1 from last week).   The big gainer for CBS was Hawaii Five-O, up 0.4 to a 3.1 […]

  Cable ratings will be fragmentary until tomorrow, but here are some numbers worth noting: MAD MEN‘s Season 6 finale was, despite some viewers’ misgivings about this season, the show’s highest-rated finale ever, with 2.7M total viewers.  (AMC didn’t release 18-49 numbers, but Mad Men has always skewed old.)  That was 200,000 more viewers than […]

    It seems that no amount of violence in GAME OF THRONES will make anyone change the channel.   HBO:  GAME OF THRONES continued its ratings ascension with a gripping episode that could have been called A Tale of Two Beheadings (not to mention some guttings, throat-slittings, a dismemberment, a massacre, and a side […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The STANLEY CUP FINALS adjusted up by 0.2 to a final 1.7.  FOX’s MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL coverage stayed at 0.5.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The Saturday night cable winner isn’t actually on the chart below, because Adult Swim’s DRAGON BALL Z is technically a rerun, although the current versions of the episodes haven’t been shown in […]

  ABC’s premieres were dim. 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 analysis and comparisons follow the chart. […]

  Several networks returned from their holiday hibernations.  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 […]