NETWORK UPDATE:   The NHL FINALS rating adjusted up 0.1 to 1.9 in final numbers, tying last year’s Game 1.  In addition, MASTERCHEF rose 0.1, as did the rerun of SUPERNATURAL. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A busy but not particularly high-rated night was topped by BET’s season premiere of THE GAME at 0.67, with lead-out FRANKIE & NEFFE at […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Things got worse for STILL STAR-CROSSED in final numbers, which dropped it 0.1 to an awful-even-for-summer 0.3 (more precisely 0.34).  In addition, the rerun of MOM lost 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The season finale of AMC’s BETTER […]

  Lifetime’s cancellation of THE CLIENT LIST after two seasons is unusual enough to be worthy of some note. Here’s the thing:  Client List was still, despite some ratings dip in Season 2, a clear success for Lifetime, running at about 2M viewers and 0.7 in 18-49s.  Bidding it adieu was hardly an obvious move, […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   NASCAR returned to the top of the sports heap this weekend, up 18% over the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s NFL game adjusted to 4.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart       CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On another holiday weekend day with little original programming, the NFL Network’s Saturday afternoon game (branded with another day of the week) was at 1.53.  ESPN’s trio of […]

  FOX:  The season premiere episodes of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES ran at 1.2/1.1, far better in the 9PM hour than sitcoms have done for FOX all season.  They were also up from last season’s 0.9 premiere. ABC:  The night started with 1.1 for LAST MAN STANDING, down 0.3 from last week.  That didn’t help the season […]

NOTE: ABC numbers below will go up in the official nationals when live viewing on the west coast from 5-8pm PT is added to the game rating. NBC numbers for Dateline below will decline in the official nationals when live viewing of SNL on the west coast from 8:30-10pm PT is relocated to and combined […]

The Christmas and New Year’s holidays 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 two weeks. Thursday 12/23 nationals available Monday 12/27 afternoon Friday 12/24 nationals available Tuesday 12/28 morning Saturday 12/25 nationals available Wednesday 12/29 morning Sunday […]