NETWORK FINALS:  THE SUPER BOWL adjusted to 31.0, down 2.4 from 2018’s final number.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As usual, there were few alternatives on Super Bowl Sunday.  Animal Planet’s PUPPY BOWL fell a sharp 0.39 from last year’s edition to […]

>When the television ratings come in each morning, there is often a lot of attention paid to a rating that might be up only one tenth of a rating point from the prior week or the prior year.  (More recently, most ratings in most time periods have been trending down instead of up, which makes […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday April 3 through Sunday April 9, 2023. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 100K 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 […]

>ESPN’s Monday Night Football this week was down from a 6.9 to a 5.0 rating this week.  Blame AFC teams and a lopsided score.  Jersey Shore was down a tenth of a rating point and pushed into third place by a very good season premiere of Walking Dead on AMC.  BET’s Hip Hop Awards scored […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICAN IDOL slipped 0.03 to 0.58, and the season finale of THE GOOD DOCTOR was at 0.32, down 0.02 from last week and down 0.04 from last season’s finale. CBS:  Back from a rerun week, THE NEIGHBORHOOD gained 0.06 to 0.48, and BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA was up 0.06 to 0.40.  Airing […]

  A special episode of THE BACHELOR changed the night’s dynamics a bit. 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 […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  SHARK TANK and HAWAII 5-0 each gained 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery had 2 of the night’s Top 3 cable shows with the returns of GOLD RUSH (1.21) and lead-in GOLD RUSH: THE DIRT (0.51).  Disney Channel had 3 in the Top 10:  GIRL […]

> NEW SHOWS in CAPS.  New Time Periods in Italics. WHAT WE LIKE.  As stated in the network press release about the new 2011/12 schedule, NBC is attempting a nice blend of stability (Tuesday, Sunday, and parts of Wednesday and Thursday) and aggressive risk-taking (Monday, early Wednesday, and Friday).  NBC does not have a lot […]