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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

Posted June 23, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 21 and Sunday June 22, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   Soccer: World Cup Saturday 2.8 rating ESPN 11:30 am Argentina vs Iran (versus 2.8 rating […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 6.11.2015

Posted June 12, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC’s NBA FINALS game adjusted up to 7.6 in final numbers, and correspondingly the lead-in JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE shrank to 1.4.  Elsewhere, the BONES season finale gained 0.1, as did all the CBS sitcom reruns. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Syfy’s WWE coverage took the cable night with 0.73, up 0.14 from last week.  That didn’t help the […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.9.2019

Posted March 12, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted up to 1.0, and the 2 hours of DATELINE lost 0.1/0.2 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As COLLEGE BASKETBALL heads to the NCAAs, ESPN’s games were at 1.23 (Duke vs. North Carolina)/0.81 (Michigan […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.18.2015

Posted November 19, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  Network Wednesdays seem to have settled in. 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 […]

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2015-16 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: How The Networks Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Bombs

Posted November 30, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  1.3.  0.9.  1.4.  1.1.  0.7.  1.2.  1.3. 1.2. Those are, respectively, the most recent Live + Same Day ratings for Quantico, Grandfathered, Code Black (which actually had a bump for the week thanks to a higher than usual lead-in), The Mysteries of Laura, The Grinder, The Muppets, Limitless, and Rosewood–all of which have received […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 9.29.2016

Posted September 30, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

      NETWORK FINALS:  SUPERSTORE and THE GOOD PLACE both gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun of THE FLASH lost the same.  On CBS, where local NFL preemptions figured in, everything was down:  both BIG BANG THEORY reruns by 0.1, the KEVIN CAN WAIT reruns by 0.2 and 0.1, and the BULL […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.2.2020

Posted October 3, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

  Even allowing for likely adjustments upward, the NBA FINALS is scoring low compared to 2019. 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 […]

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The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 7.29.2017

Posted July 30, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]

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