Happy New Year to all, as we dust off the last ratings of 2013: ABC:  NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE, aka the Ryan Seacrest New Year’s Eve show, had no trouble disposing of NBC with a 3.7 that more than doubled the competition.  That was, however, down 0.5 from last year.  The late-night portion of […]

The Thanksgiving holiday weekend will cause delays for daily national ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  This is how the ratings should roll out the next week or so. (All times Pacific.) Wed 11/24 nationals available Mon 11/29 by 2p Thu 11/25 nationals available Tue 11/30 by 8a Fri 11/26 nationals available Tue 11/30 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the 10PM MODERN FAMILY rerun lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN led Tuesday cable, up 0.06 to 0.62, with CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST up 0.09 to 0.45, and […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday April 7-8, 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, April 8-9, […]

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:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up 0.2 to 2.1, and FOX’s game stayed at 0.8.  In addition, DATELINE and the NCIS rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the SUPERSTORE and SNL reruns lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

NBC began the second half of its season, but the story was still football. FOX:  The overrun from the Seattle/Washington NFL WILD CARD GAME coverage, which was cunningly pushed even farther into primetime by FOX with the postgame show extended to around 8:03PM, gave Rupert Murdoch’s troops the night.  The overrun itself had a massive […]

  The NFL brought ratings to a dimension they haven’t seen in a while, but not quite where they’ve been. 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 […]