The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 5 through Monday September 7, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. College […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CBS’s NCAA TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP game adjusted to 5.3, above last year’s 4.83 on cable, but considerably below the 7.1 for the last broadcast final 2 years ago.  In addition, the preceding rerun of THE BIG BANG THEORY adjusted to 0.9.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Thursday ratings.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s coverage of the NBA DRAFT was at 1.20 with 0.82 for a pre-show hour, more or less steady with last year’s 1.25/0.78.  On Bravo, REAL HOUSEWIVES […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The 9PM hour of the LAST DANCE rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It’s regular Fox News ratings policy to credit their regularly scheduled primetime programming even when those shows are preempted for live coverage […]

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). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]

Game 2 of the World Series Wednesday night on FOX averaged a 3.4 adult 18-49, matching Game 1’s young adult rating.  Actually, if we look at the rating to two decimal places rather than the archaic one-tenth of a rating point, Game 2 (3.40) is slightly ahead of Game 1 (3.38).  But any reasonable person […]

  The holiday doldrums have set in. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The 10PM rerun of the MACY’S 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Most regular cable series took July 4th off, leaving the way clear for ESPN2 to have an unusual #1 […]