NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT lost 0.1 in final numbers.  For the curious, BEING REUBEN almost reached the level where it could have been rounded up to 0.1, but not quite.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS […]

ABC’s Friday makes its season debut. ABC:  SHARK TANK, PRIMETIME and 20/20 all arrived for the new season with great consistency:  1.7/1.7/1.8.  That was enough to win every hour (and the night), although none too impressively considering that they were facing reruns in almost every direction. FOX:  What turned out to be a burned-off “bonus” […]

  Another pandemic-related music special. 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 and comparisons follow […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  In the battle of COLLEGE FOOTBALL games, CBS’s LSU vs. Alabama match-up was dominant by far, adjusting up 0.2 to 3.6.  ABC’s Minnesota vs. Ohio State game held at 1.2, and FOX’s Utah vs. Washington game gained 0.1 from early numbers but was still way behind at 0.4.  Broadcast Official Nationals Program […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday August 25-26, 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, August 26-27, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  YOUNG SHELDON, the 8PM GREAT NEWS and the SNL clip show all gained 0.1 in final numbers, while SWAT lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Thursday cable was heavy on sports, as TNT’s NBA doubleheader topped the night […]

Grey’s has still got it–other veteran shows don’t. ABC:  The GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.4 from last week to a robust 3.9, its highest rating in months.  That helped push the SCANDAL season finale to a series high 2.4.  Earlier in the evening, MISSING departed forever with a comparatively tiny 1.3 (although that was up […]

  SQUIRREL!  NBC, and its media enablers, will do their best to focus discussion of the WINTER OLYMPICS ratings on total viewers, daytime and online numbers, and–SQUIRREL!–anything other than the evident fact that the Games didn’t justify a cost that probably exceeded $1 billion, between rights ($775M alone) and production costs over the 18 days of […]