The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 11 and Sunday June 12, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year.  Click here […]

The Tuesday sitcom picture has changed. FOX:  It wasn’t so long ago, back in the days when The Voice was still leading off the night for NBC, that New Girl struggled mightily just to keep up with Go On.  Last night’s major-event episode, though, more than doubled Go On‘s number, with a robust 2.5 (up […]

> Ah, if only NBC didn’t have to program against those darn competitors all the time… NBC:  With repeats on every other network, the Peacock was able to garner a narrow win under its tree, even though its own ratings weren’t exactly tinsel and glitter:  1.8 for the continuing run of WHO’S STILL STANDING? (which […]

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). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELORETTE gained 0.03 to 0.65, followed by a SUPERSTAR special at 0.28. CBS:  Reruns at 0.38/0.32/0.30. NBC:  THE VOICE dropped 0.06 to 0.73.  The season finale of LA BREA rose 0.05 to 0.51.  The night ended with a NEW AMSTERDAM rerun at 0.22. FOX:  THE RESIDENT jumped 0.14 to 0.49.  […]

  Not enough viewers believed in fairies. 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 […]

We’ve reached the broadcast networks’ Upfront Week… which used to be a lot more central to our television lives than it is now.  Ratings everywhere are down, and there’s no reason to think they’ve hit bottom, which has caused seismic changes in the ways networks make scheduling decisions.  Among other things, with revenues from on-air […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The post-football adjustments to NBC pushed both episodes of SUPERSTORE and CHICAGO MED each down 0.1, and THE BLACKLIST down 0.2 from this morning’s preliminary ratings.  Elsewhere, LIFE IN PIECES gained 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  This was the final […]