Through the first Thursday of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament (better known as March Madness), CBS is down -15% in total viewers (persons 2+) to 3.8 million on average for its two evening games (compared to the average of the prior three years), TNT is down -25% to 1.5 million viewers for its four games […]

  CW’s season premieres stirred no visible excitement. 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 […]

  A move to Sunday did absolutely nothing for BRAINDEAD. 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 […]

Here are the full week sports ratings (such as they are) for Monday May 11 through Sunday May 17, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is […]

Although the College Football Playoff semifinal games were up this year over last year (one game up +23% and the other up a more modest +3%), last night’s Championship game was down slightly from last year’s already disappointing final in most demographics.  The 25.2 million viewers 2+ audience last night breaks down to 24.4 million […]

  Preliminary broadcast network ratings for Night 1 of the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION were roughly the same as last week’s Democratic Convention, and at 0.3/0.2/0.3 were similarly down from 2016 (0.7/0.5/1.1).  For more detail, see Mitch Metcalf’s Convention Ratings Analysis post, which will be updated this afternoon with cable numbers. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 12 through Sunday October 18, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday November 9 through Sunday November 15, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]