Remember when The Voice was a big hit? NBC:  We won’t know until fall if it really means anything–certainly there are fewer people watching TV in general now that the regular season is over–but THE VOICE fell to an all-time performance show low 3.1 last night, down 0.4 from last week.  It’s been doing […]

  The first Thursday BIG BROTHER of the season won 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 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 15 and Sunday June 16, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) The second major tournament on the golf calendar was down from last year to a fairly mediocre […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).  The week including the 4th of July is usually about as bad as it gets in any given year.  This year, two networks averaged well below a 1 rating across primetime for the week, while […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals). The same rank order for the broadcast networks this week as last: FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC. Collectively, the four networks are down a slight -3% from last week, but they are down a staggering […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday April 22-23, 2017.  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, April 23-24, […]

Here is how the current week is shaping up (through Wednesday).  Duck Dynasty is cruising into first place among everything on television (a stunning 5.0 rating with adults 18-49 for its season premiere).

  Early ratings for the VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE were inevitably lower than last week’s Presidential showdown, but surprisingly similar to the preliminary VP numbers from 2016, which were in the 0.8-1.9 range. 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 […]