A good night for CBS. 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 the […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 16 through Sunday August 22, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game remained at 1.9 in final numbers, while FOX’s stayed at 0.5.  Elsewhere, the final hour of AQUARIUS gained 0.1 to a still-dismal 0.3.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As will mostly be the case every Saturday until […]

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). ###

Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on network affiliates in 210 U.S. markets from 8-11 pm Eastern & Pacific or 7-10 pm Central & Mountain. The numbers are some combination of the network schedule and any pre-emptions (such as local news or weather coverage). The bad news in this case: very few […]

  CBS’s temporary fix to its Monday problem both worked and didn’t. CBS:  Back in its original 8:30PM timeslot behind HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (which was even at 3.0), 2 BROKE GIRLS rose 0.2 to 2.5, a big improvement over what the late We Are Men had been doing there.  But after a 2.2 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  After football-related adjustment, THE GREAT XMAS LIGHT FIGHT dropped 0.2 and the rerun THE GOOD DOCTOR was down 0.1.  In addition, THE VOICE gained 0.1 in final numbers, and MAKING IT lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NBC’s NFL WILD CARD GAME adjusted up in final numbers to 8.8. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): ESPN’s first-ever NFL WILD CARD GAME on Saturday afternoon swamped the rest of cable at 6.95, and the network also had […]