Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday May 19-20, 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 20-21, […]

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at the detailed demographics for ABC’s primetime schedule for this season to date.  As a reminder, the audience shares for 30 distinct gender-age groups are displayed for each program below.  Programs in the chart are grouped by night so you can see the audience flow from 8:00 […]

  The CW sesaon was slow out of the gate. 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 UPDATE:  ZOO and AMERICA’S GOT TALENT each gained 0.1 in final numbers.  The IZOMBIE rerun lost 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  SHARK WEEK continued to occupy most cable viewers on Tuesday, with 3 of the night’s top 4 shows:  BRIDE OF JAWS at 1.41, TIBURONES at 1.37, and SHARK AFTER DARK at 0.81.  The latter […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICAN IDOL gained 0.1 in final numbers, pushing it into a tie with SURVIVOR.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.84/0.60.  On Bravo, REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY rose 0.12 to 0.61, and REAL HOUSEWIVES OF […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted up to 0.9, and NBC’s NHL ALL-STAR GAME adjusted down to 0.5.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Saturday cable, up 0.12 to 0.59.  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL games were at 0.56/0.41/0.37.  On a […]

  The preliminary ratings for Night 4 of the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION were almost identical to last week’s final night of the DNC at 0.4/0.2/0.3 in 18-49s and 5.4M total viewers.  For the Republicans, that was roughly the same as Wednesday’s 0.3/0.3/0.3 in 18-49s and up 500K in total viewers from the previous night, while […]

Note: Numbers for the PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE on ABC, NBC and CBS and NFL THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on FOX will rise in the official nationals when live viewing on the West Coast before 8PM PT is factored in.  With respect to early ratings vs early ratings for the Debate, the current 5.3 for the 3 networks […]