Another night with little for the networks to cheer about. ABC:  The first 90 minutes of the night provided some good news, as THE MIDDLE rebounded a bit from last week’s low to 2.2 (up 0.3), THE NEIGHBORS was up 0.2 to 1.9 and MODERN FAMILY rose a tick to 3.9.  But the tick went […]

  Wrestling returned to broadcast TV in a big way. 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). […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Lots of adjustments in final numbers, of which the most notable was DYNASTY losing 0.1 to debut at a truly terrible 0.3 after the big (unchanged) 0.8 lead-in it had from RIVERDALE.  Elsewhere, there were 0.1 bumps for THE GOLDBERGS, SURVIVOR, THE BLACKLIST, and EMPIRE.           […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday January 28-29, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K 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, January 30-31, […]

    One-third of last year’s viewers have left.   FOX:  The next-to-last AMERICAN IDOL of the season, airing against repeats on every other network, scored a 4.2, which gave FOX the nightly win but was down a whopping 2.2 rating points from last year’s parallel show.  GLEE‘s season finale, given that mighty lead-in, earned […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE SUPER BOWL adjusted to 31.0, down 2.4 from 2018’s final number.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As usual, there were few alternatives on Super Bowl Sunday.  Animal Planet’s PUPPY BOWL fell a sharp 0.39 from last year’s edition to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE OSCARS ended up at 10.5, down a fairly small 0.3 from the 2015 telecast.  Interestingly, in the final national numbers, the rating was basically steady through the telecast, without the bump in the first half-hour that was evident in the overnights.  The LIVE FROM THE RED CARPET pre-show […]

  Despite the fact that star/co-creator Danny McBride had talked about the 2012 season of EASTBOUND & DOWN as being (voluntarily) its last, and the season’s conclusion seeming to end the show’s story in a fairly satisfying way… like its antihero Kenny Powers, it’s ready for a comeback.  Vulture reports that a new 8-episode season […]