NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary numbers for Friday.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Baseball reigned over Friday cable, with Fox Sports 1’s ALCS playoff game at 2.11.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.96/0.77.  On Discovery, GOLD RUSH rose […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 27 and Sunday December 28, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 17 Sunday 10.8 rating CBS 1:00 pm Regional (mostly SD-KC) 10.5 rating FOX 1:00 […]

>Oprah Winfrey broke a cardinal rule of the Nielsen ratings game by appealing directly to Nielsen sample members to watch her struggling network.  As reported in the New York Times and elsewhere, Oprah tweeted Sunday night “Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen box” as she wrote about […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:   THE BACHELOR ticked down to 0.65.  In what turned out to be the final straw for PROMISED LAND, which will be yanked to Hulu after next week, the series dropped 0.03 to 0.15. CBS:  THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT was at 0.53, and BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION ticked down […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The 2-hour season finale of GREY’S ANATOMY was at 0.65, up 0.05 from last week but down 0.19 from the 2021 finale.  A rerun of THE ROOKIE followed at 0.23. CBS:  After reruns at 0.40/0.36/0.34/0.24, the series finale of BULL gained 0.02 to 0.32. NBC:  Reruns at 0.37/0.34/0.25. FOX:  MASTERCHEF JR […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, but MAYA & MARTY, COUPLED and the rerun of THE FLASH lost the same.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Part 2 of OJ: MADE IN AMERICA, moving successfully from ABC to ESPN, topped Tuesday […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY returned at 0.33.  The belated season premiere of THE WONDER YEARS was at 0.22/0.18, compared to 0.67 for the show’s series premiere in September 2021.  SUPERSTAR was at 0.20. CBS:  Reruns at 0.24/0.21/0.20/0.12. NBC:  Reruns at 0.22/0.19/0.20/0.23. FOX:  MASTERCHEF gained 0.03 to 0.42, and FOOD STARS was down […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  48 HOURS gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the 9PM DATELINE dropped 0.2, and FOX’s MLB game as well as the SNL and AMERICAN IDOL reruns each lost 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was dominant […]