Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     NOTE:  At this time, we have no Wednesday cable ratings below the Top 150 on the charts below. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN had a solid grasp on Wednesday cable with its COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl games at 0.69/0.64/0.40.  History’s VIKINGS […]

  Has American Idol finally leveled out? FOX:  After 3 weeks of consecutive drops that brought the show down 0.7 from a month ago, AMERICAN IDOL was up a tick last night to 3.2.  That’s still a full point below its season average, and just over half its season high, but it may be the […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Game 2 of the NBA FINALS adjusted up by 1.3 to 7.4, while the pre-game JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE special went down after time zones were taken into account by 1.7 to 1.0.  THE TONY AWARDS avoided setting a record low by gaining 0.1 in final numbers to 1.0.  Elsewhere, GOLAN THE INSATIABLE conquered […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  CAUGHT ON CAMERA and both reruns of MASTERS OF ILLUSION lost 0.1 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’S final NBA PLAYOFFS game of the season, in which Cleveland took care of Toronto, topped Friday at 2.15. Discovery’s […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 6: February 1-7, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Because of the many sports preemptions on Thursday  night, our full broadcast network analysis is below. ABC:  The season finale of BOY BAND was up 0.1 to 0.6, but both BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS and the rerun of THE GONG SHOW were down 0.1 to 0.5. CBS:  BIG […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 10 through Sunday August 16, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

  Just about everything not on CBS was down. 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 […]