Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday June 12 through Sunday June 18, 2023. 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 last year: […]

>Don’t Trust the B- in Apt 23 had an okay second outing last night, while Revenge returned acceptably at best.  American Idol dropped again this week (after a brief bout of stability last Wednesday), but Idol remains comfortably ahead of this week’s The Voice in the weekly singing competition popularity contest.          […]

>Back to a first place tie on Thursday between CBS (with mostly original episodes this week) and FOX (with Idol down to a one-hour edition) followed by The Finder.  You will notice we do not have year-to-year comparisons for this night.  Two very helpful readers identified a problem with recent year-ago comparisons, and it is […]

  It was American Idol‘s turn to feel the Olympics pain. NBC:  See Mitch Metcalf’s SKEDBALL post for details on last night’s Sochi ratings.  After an uptick on Tuesday, Wednesday’s WINTER OLYMPICS coverage fell to 5.6, down a full point from the previous day, and also back to being below the last 3 winter games […]

  The BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS carried the night. 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 […]

>State of the Union coverage (most of which is not actually rated because it is “sustaining” programming, i.e. no commercials) dominated the night.  The night only counts about half as much as a normal Tuesday in the season record books because only about 90 minutes on each network (60 on FOX) was commercially sponsored.    […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The SURVIVOR reunion special dropped to 0.9 in final numbers.  In addition, CHICAGO FIRE gained 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was at 2.03.  On Bravo, SOUTHERN CHARM returned with regular episodes at 0.49, REAL HOUSEWIVES OF […]

>CBS moved into first place Wednesday night with a 3.2 rating from 8-11 pm.  Survivor and Criminal Minds matched season lows, while CSI managed a very respectable rating at 10 pm.  However, it was enough to win the night, as viewers’ attention turns to Christmas and other holiday preparation and TV usage begins a rapid […]