NETWORK FINALS:  Since at this point Nielsen is issuing preliminary ratings and finals simultaneously as they catch up on their missing nights, we’ll skip to the finals and provide analysis here: ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS (1.0) and ONCE UPON A TIME (0.9) held at last week’s numbers.  TIME AFTER TIME […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, but 20/20 lost the same. In addition, the CW reruns crashed after adjustment for baseball preemption, down by half to 0.2 each.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Not unexpectedly, AMC’s FEED THE BEAST […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The finale of BROKE and CELEBRITY WATCH PARTY gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the reruns of SVU and MOM lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A Trump Town Hall put Fox News’s HANNITY at the top of […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 20: May 11-May 17, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

>The metered-market overnights, the first ratings available each day, show that NBC’s Awake finished in second place in the 10 pm hour to the repeat episode of The Mentalist on CBS.  Remember that the overnights reflect viewing in 56 of the largest television markets only (about half of the country), and the ratings and shares […]

  Another weak summer Friday on broadcast TV. 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 follows the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The primetime network finals had ABC at 1.6 (down from 2.5/2.7 in 2016, when the network split up its night for ratings purposes), CBS at 1.1 (down from 2.4), NBC at 1.7 (down from 4.0), and FOX at 1.0 (compared to 1.2/0.5).         Broadcast Official Nationals […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DEBATE adjusted up to 2.1, and the CHICAGO MED rerun adjusted down to 0.7.  Elsewhere, THE MASKED SINGER gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The MSNBC portion of the DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DEBATE was […]