The mostly-scripted summer Thursday scheme isn’t working out well for anyone. 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). […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The TRUTH & LIES Menendez Brothers special gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It was another good night for the NBA, as TNT’s doubleheader had the night’s top slots with Oklahoma City vs. Houston at 0.72 and […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday May 5-6, 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, May 6-7, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The BIG BANG THEORY rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the SWAT and ARROW season finales lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s JERSEY SHORE: FAMILY VACATION dipped 0.03 to 1.02, and EX ON THE BEACH was […]

  Ratings in key for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Lifetime’s WHITNEY movie dominated Saturday cable at 1.67, and actually the night was stronger for the network than the chart currently indicates, because a pair of post-movie documentary and music specials occupied the #2-3 slots at […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE VOICE gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did the BIG BANG THEORY rerun, while the ORIGINALS rerun lost 0.1.  With quarter-hour numbers available, the value of the VOICE lead-in to THE NIGHT SHIFT is even clearer, as over the course of the latter’s hour, it tumbled 1.9/1.3/1.1/1.1, although it kept its […]

  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Even on a night without an NBA Playoffs game, sports was king on Saturday.  FOX Sports 1’s NASCAR SPRINT CUP RACE was at 0.82, and the various segments of HBO’s BOXING were at 0.59-0.26.  HBO preceded boxing with its original movie BESSIE at 0.40.  On Adult Swim, KILL LA KILL rose a […]

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