>On a night overshadowed by the BCS National Championship college football game on sister network ESPN (Alabama shutting out LSU — ratings available later), ABC decided to go with female-skewing originals, narrowly beating the other broadcast networks with a 2.2 Adult 18-49 rating.  The Bachelor was down two tenths of a rating point in its […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 26 and Sunday December 27, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL and college football weekend or the same calendar weekend […]

>Dancing with the Stars Results put ABC in the win column last night, which is normal for the final Tuesday of the November sweep, when the plastic trophy is awarded to America’s favorite dancer.  However, ABC is running 15% behind the pace of this night last year.  Look for much stronger casting in the next […]

  Mild declines for NBC. 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 […]

>A brief update on the November sweep.  FOX remains solidly in first place and almost 100% ahead of the same period last November.  The other networks are down solid double digits.  Click “read more” for a look at each network.            NOVEMBER SWEEP SCORECARD          2011 vs 2010 Through Day 3 of 28                  2011    2010          […]

> Zooey Deschanel in FOX’s New Girl The second Tuesday of the new season was relatively surprise-free.  FOX’s New Girl established itself as the hit of the new season, and CBS turned in a reliable performance thanks to the NCIS pair, although Unforgettable looks shaky at best.  NBC and ABC are floundering thanks to aging […]

  A slow July 4th for televised fireworks. 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 […]

> NEW GIRL, riding high off its exceptional rating last night, today became the first new series of the season to score a back-order of Spring episodes.  Even better, FOX made a statement by ordering 11 additional episodes instead of the usual 9 (normally, even if the network thought they’d ultimately want 11, they’d order […]