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NIELSENWAR Week 3: Night-By-Night Network Ratings Impact

Posted October 14, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  What do we know that we didn’t know last week? Here’s the big-picture view of where each network’s primetime average stands in comparison to 2012-13 after 3 full weeks of the season: NBC: 2.84 (+0.9%) CBS: 2.18 ( -4.6%) FOX: 2.13 (-5.9%) ABC: 2.06 (-0.3%) CW:  0.50 (-1.7%)  Note, CW didn’t begin premiering its […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.5-6.2016

Posted March 7, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 5 and Sunday March 6, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. NBA Saturday 1.42 rating ABC 8:30 […]

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The Sked: FRIDAY Ratings 1.30.2015

Posted January 31, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

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), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.27.2017

Posted October 30, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  WORLD SERIES Game 3 adjusted to 3.9, well below 2016’s 5.2 for the parallel game.  Elsewhere, MACGYVER and JANE THE VIRGIN gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH led Friday cable, down 0.09 from […]

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UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK/CABLE SCORECARD – 11/5/13

Posted November 6, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  TROPHY WIFE became even more disastrous in final numbers, falling to a 1.1, which makes it one of the lowest-rated in-season, non-Friday series ever to get a back order.  It’s hard to imagine ABC keeping it where it is for the remainder of the season.  The only other afternoon change was a […]

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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/2/11

Posted December 3, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> It turns out that while Americans are football crazy, they’re not crazy. FOX:  The first-ever PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, in which UCLA was never close to nationally-ranked Oregon, could only manage a dismal 1.4 rating in 18-49s (although given the West Coast focus of the game, that could come up in final national ratings).  On […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.4.2021

Posted January 6, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant upward adjustments (to the next tenth) for THE BACHELOR, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, both episodes of ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES and the rerun of THE MASKED DANCER.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  In the absence of a Monday NFL […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 4.19-4.25.2021

Posted April 27, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday April 19 through Sunday April 25, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison we are setting aside this […]

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