The wheels have pretty much come off the Olympic cart in Russia.  Saturday night was even worse than Friday’s disaster, a preliminary 4.3 adult 18-49 rating from 8:30-11:00 pm Saturday night (assuming the first half hour is excluded from the nightly average as is common on Saturday).  This is two full rating points behind the […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  Everything on CBS except THE CRAZY ONES moved by 0.1, with THE BIG BANG THEORY and ELEMENTARY up, and THE MILLERS and 2 1/2 MEN down.  ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND found an extra 0.1, not that it’s going to help.  In the race not to be canceled, PARKS & RECREATION […]

NOTE: ABC, CBS and NBC ratings below inflated by local prime time pre-emptions for NFL Monday Night Football (nationally on ESPN): ABC (in Los Angeles), CBS (in Minneapolis) and NBC (in New Orleans). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), […]

Tuesday preliminary broadcast ratings:

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  THE VOICE and AGENTS OF SHIELD avoided lows with 0.1 upward adjustments.  TUESDAY CABLE:  NBA PLAYOFF games on TNT led the night at 1.7/1.1.  THE DEADLIEST CATCH (Discovery) had a strong 1.5 season premiere, up 0.3 from last year’s season finale, although down 0.1 from the 2013 season premiere (a lead-in special […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Merely 0.1 additions for the season finale of THE AMAZING RACE and AMERICAN DREAM BUILDERS. SATURDAY CABLE:  ORPHAN BLACK (BBCAmerica) remained at 0.2, although just thousandths of a ratings point from being rounded up to 0.3.  The rounding worked against its lead-out IN THE FLESH, which technically had a 0.0 rating, although […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  The time-zone adjusted rating for Game 2 of the NBA FINALS climbed to 6.0.  As expected, the primetime JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE and NBA COUNTDOWN dropped heavily, from 2.2/2.3 to 1.1/1.3. SATURDAY CABLE:  Starz’s POWER needed two runs, at 9 and 10PM, to accumulate a passable 0.3 rating in 18-49s (9PM was 0.15, 10PM […]

Ratings for Thursday’s matches on ESPN and ESPN2 are in and of course the Germany vs USA match was the highest-rated match of the day, but only the third-highest USA match in World Cup 2014 because ESPN rated 187 minutes for the entire coverage (pre-match, post-match, halftime and the game itself) instead of the usual 150-minute […]