NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up 0.1 to 1.4, and FOX’s game stayed at 1.0.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As with most fall Saturdays, cable was dominated by COLLEGE FOOTBALL, with games and related programming occupying all 6 of the […]

Good news for ABC’s sitcoms. ABC:  LAST MAN STANDING and MALIBU COUNTRY, newly gifted with 5-episode backorders, justified their continued life by rising to 1.6/1.5, a tick or two up from recent weeks.  A rerun SHARK TANK and a new 20/20 won their hours with 1.6 and 1.7, respectively. CBS:  UNDERCOVER BOSS held steady at […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELOR dropped 0.08 to 0.51, followed by a rerun of THE COMPANY YOU KEEP at 0.16. NBC:  Reruns at 0.39/0.28/0.24/0.21. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.06 to 0.54, followed by a MAGNUM PI rerun at 0.23. FOX:  FANTASY ISLAND was steady at 0.24, and ALERT ticked down to 0.26. CW:  […]

    SUPERGIRL hit the skies running. 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 […]

>FOX Thursday was up from last week, thanks to a second hour of American Idol replacing The Finder at 9 pm.  But those two hours of Idol were also the lowest Thursday episode to date.  CBS was also down a bit from recent weeks, and the Grey’s Anatomy / Private Practice crossover did not improve ABC’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Game 3 of the NBA FINALS adjusted to 4.6, down a big 1.8 from 2018’s Game 3.  Elsewhere, THE AMAZING RACE gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  THE CMT MUSIC AWARDS aired on multiple Viacom networks:  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BLINDSPOT lost 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, probably due to sports preemptions, the CW line-up was down across the board, by 0.2 at 8PM and by 0.1/0.1 at 8:30PM and 9PM.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s afternoon coverage […]

> Sports dominated the top of the cable chart again this week, led of course by NFL Monday Night Football with a very good 6.9 Adult 18-49 rating.  TBS had some very good performances in the League Division Series, when the Yankees and Phillies were still in the running and when their respective Series culminated […]