A dull night on the networks. 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 the […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday March 10-11, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, March 11-12, 2017: […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS dropped 0.15 to 0.55, THE WONDER YEARS similarly fell 0.17 to 0.50, THE CONNERS lost 0.14 to 0.51, and HOME ECONOMICS was down 0.05 to 0.36.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS reversed the trend, up 0.02 to 0.31. CBS:  SURVIVOR dipped 0.06 to 1.00, and the season finale of BIG […]

  USA’s CANNONBALL had a fair preview on NBC. 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). Ratings […]

> Maybe ABC should have left “Bitches” in the title. ABC:  GCB (aka Good Christian Bitches, aka Good Christian Belles) had a very unimpressive debut, a 2.2 that was way below Pan Am‘s premiere in the fall.  (In fairness, the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES lead-in to Pan Am was a lot higher than last night’s rating.)  GCB […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK returned from a 2-week break up 0.03 to 0.51, and 20/20 was steady at 0.31. CBS:  A GREATEST @HOME VIDEOS special at 0.26 was followed by reruns at 0.23/0.20. NBC.  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ dropped 0.05 from last week’s premiere to 0.26, and YOUNG ROCK was down 0.04 to 0.22.  […]

Friday’s matches on ESPN did just okay ratings.  Nothing spectacular for 2014 (the three matches ranking #17, #18 and #20 out of 26 through Friday) but still better than 2010.  The ratings you all really want to see (the demographics from Sunday’s USA match versus Portugal) will be available early tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. If you are […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BLACK-ISH and CODE BLACK lost 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  FX’s newly-renewed AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL slid 0.08 to 1.40, but still carried the night.  Discovery’s ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE shot up 0.56 to 1.18–perhaps viewers can explain what caused last night’s number to nearly […]