NETWORK FINALS:  THE ORIGINALS’ half of its crossover with THE VAMPIRE DIARIES gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH topped Friday cable, up 0.05 from last week to 1.31, and the network aired a VENOM HUNTERS rerun […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game was at 1.07, and FOX’s game was at 0.81.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Another fall Saturday, another day for COLLEGE FOOTBALL, with ESPN’s games at 0.98/0.53/0.44, Big 10’s at 0.23/0.15, ESPN2’s at 0.20/0.17/0.13, and Fox Sports 1’s at 0.19/0.15/0.14.  TUDN’s SELECCION MEXICANA […]

What does football mean to the broadcast networks?  For NBC and CBS, NFL coverage (along with other sports, mostly an occasional college football game) accounts for about 20-30% of the entire primetime rating for the network. For CBS, its 2.63 adult 18-49 rating for the season to date falls all the way down to a […]

> FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY held up quite well in its second airing last night with a 1.4 in 18-49s, dropping only about 15% from its premiere (even though it faced new competition from the return of USA’s PSYCH, which did a 1.0). That’s may not be Walking Dead level success (the zombies did 2.4 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.6, down half a point from last week’s game.  In addition, after NFL adjustments, 60 MINUTES fell half a point, NCIS: LA dropped 0.4, and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS lost 0.1, while THE SIMPSONS and BLESS THE HARTS each gained 0.1  Elsewhere, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME […]

With the NBA conference finals continuing last night and History’s hit mini-series Hatfields & McCoys ending its short run last night, the best the broadcast networks could muster was a 2.6 Adult 18-49 rating for FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance (up a bit from Thursday’s 2.4-rated premiere).  Last year on Wednesday, June 1, the comparable episode of SYTYCD scored […]

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week  ending Sunday (December 16-23, 2012), NBC is back in first place with a 2.48 rating in prime time, a very good rating for the third week of December.  Two and a half hours of The Voice (4.2 rating on Monday and 4.9 for the finale on Tuesday) and Sunday Night Football game (a […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FRESH OFF THE BOAT gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN took the top slot on Tuesday cable, up 0.05 to 0.90, and the season finale of SHOOTER ticked up to 0.49.  History’s CURSE […]