NBC won Election Night with a preliminary 4.6 adult 18-49 rating in primetime.  This very Voice-like rating is substantially higher than the 3.2 rating NBC has averaged on Tuesday night the first six weeks of the season. ABC also did very well relative to its normal Tuesday performance.  ABC News averaged a 3.8 from 8-11 pm, […]

Post-Sweeps malaise. NBC:  Cleveland must be feeling pretty good about its preemptions last night, as the 9-11PM regular network schedule averaged under a 1.0 rating, with 0.9s for a new 1600 PENN and rerun SVU, and a 1.0 for an OFFICE rerun.  COMMUNITY held even at 1.1 at 8PM, followed by 0.9 for a PARKS […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s NASCAR race and NBC’s 9PM episode of THE WALL lost 0.1 in final numbers.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Adult Swim’s RICK & MORTY led Sunday scripted cable, down a tick to 0.67, with THE SHIVERING TRUTH down 0.02 […]

In addition to the four usual NFL time periods on Sunday (two 1:00 pm games, a 4:30 pm national game and the 8:30 game on NBC), Thanksgiving day featured a national NFL tripleheader.  Of all the games this week, the 12:45 Thanksgiving game on CBS was the highest-rated (15.2 household rating in the 56 metered […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 20-21, 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, October 21-22, […]

  Another easy win for SHARK TANK. 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 analysis follows […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NHL game was at 0.36.  NBC’s SNL dropped 0.08 to 0.65.  FOX’s MLS match was at 0.10.  CW’s MASTERS OF ILLUSION was at 0.04, and TOTALLY WEIRD & FUNNY premiered at 0.04/0.04.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN dominated the cable day, with UFC FIGHT NIGHT […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  THE GOLDEN GLOBES adjusted to 5.5 in final numbers (0.3 below the finals for last year’s edition), and the ARRIVALS SHOW fell to 1.4.  After adjustment for the NFL WILD CARD game that ran into FOX primetime, THE SIMPSONS adjusted to a still-tremendous 3.6, COOPER BARRETT’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE got […]