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 […]

Wednesday preliminary broadcast ratings:

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 23 and Sunday January 24, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL schedule weekend or the same calendar weekend last year. NFL: […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  DYNASTY and the 9:30PM rerun of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game led Friday cable at 1.36, followed by the network’s preceding coverage of the NFL […]

> Welcome to April:  pilots are being produced and prepared for executive screenings, all but a very few of the 2011/12 series have aired, and we’re only 6 weeks away from the hoopla of the network Upfronts and their attendant announcement of next season’s Fall TV schedules.  Mitch Metcalf and I sat down with veteran […]

  NOTE: CBS, NBC and FOX numbers below inflated slightly by a few major-market pre-emptions for NFL Preseason games. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BLESS THIS MESS gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: A bit oddly, Pop’s SCHITT’S CREEK retrospective special at 0.19 was higher-rated than the series finale itself at 0.18 (steady with last week, and up a remarkable […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A SOUL OF THE NATION special was at 0.20, followed by a 20/20 rerun at 0.23. CBS:  A run of the movie STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS was at 0.15. NBC:  Reruns at 0.23/0.23. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN ticked down to 0.52. CW:  Reruns at 0.07/0.06/0.05. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF VIP dropped 0.03 to […]