America’s Got Talent powered NBC to another nightly victory last night.  A repeat AGT scored a 2.0 preliminary rating with Adults 18-49 at 8 pm, and an original hour at 9 pm averaged a 3.7 rating (up from the show’s 3.3 last week in the same hour against the Dancing with the Stars finale but down from the 4.3 rating […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 23 and Sunday April 24, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. Golf PGA: Valero Texas Open […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of BLACK-ISH, MIXED-ISH and FBI: MOST WANTED lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Tuesday cable notched another win for Fox News, with TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.41/0.67/4.3M, while MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW was at […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The 10PM episode of CROWDED and the rerun of THE FLASH each lost 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Remarkably, 6 of the Top 10 slots on Tuesday cable were filled by primary election coverage.  As usual, CNN led […]

Smash = Moose Murders. NBC:  Despite enormous, and well-publicized, behind the scenes changes, and weeks of intensive, expensive marketing, NBC couldn’t convince viewers to give SMASH another chance, and the Season 2 premiere had, by far, the show’s lowest rating ever with an awful 1.1.  (And as Mitch Metcalf noted earlier this morning, even that […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only change from preliminary numbers was a 0.1 reduction for the SHARK TANK rerun. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery held the top 2 slots on Friday cable with ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE (preempted for Shark Week, it rose 0.22 from 2 weeks ago to 1.02) and TREASURE QUEST at 0.62.  Disney Channel’s GIRL MEETS WORLD gained 0.13 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There were lots of 0.1 moves in the final numbers, with THE BACHELORETTE, MOTEL HELL and MASTERCHEF up, and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR and THE YOUNG HOLLYWOOD AWARDS down. MONDAY CABLE:  A slightly subdued night for the evening’s leaders, as LOVE & HIP-HOP ATLANTA (VH1) dropped 0.3 from last week to 1.8 (plus […]

  Basketball, as always, beat Broadway last night. ABC:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  we have adjusted the 4.6 fast national adult 18-49 rating for NBA FINALS GAME 2  to an estimated 5.4 rating.  However, the 5.4 would still be 17% below the Sunday night game last year (on June 17), a similar decline to Game 1 on […]