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

Posted November 3, 2012 by Mitch Salem

Something finally goes right for ABC this fall. ABC:  This was what the network had in mind when it announced its Friday schedule.  LAST MAN STANDING debuted to a 1.9, above the mid-1 numbers it was doing on higher-viewing Tuesdays.  It also proved to be an effective lead-in to the launch of MALIBU COUNTRY, which […]

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THE SKED: “Partners” Is Dissolved

Posted November 16, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  CBS has canceled PARTNERS, and pulled it from the Monday night schedule.  The show, created by the Will & Grace team of Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, never got a grip on much viewership, and was by far the lowest-rated show in the network’s crucial Monday line-up of sitcoms, so this isn’t much of […]

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THE SKED’S SUNDAY CABLE SCORECARD – 12/2/12

Posted December 4, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  SHOWTIME:  HOMELAND has flirted with 24-ness since it went on the air.  It’s in the show’s DNA, given its creators’ resumes and the overlapping subject matter.  This week, barring a startling reversal in the last 2 episodes of the season, it seemed to succumb.  The sight of Carrie handcuffed to a pipe in an […]

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The Sked: Saturday Ratings 11.12.2016

Posted November 13, 2016 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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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/6/13

Posted January 7, 2013 by Mitch Salem

NBC began the second half of its season, but the story was still football. FOX:  The overrun from the Seattle/Washington NFL WILD CARD GAME coverage, which was cunningly pushed even farther into primetime by FOX with the postgame show extended to around 8:03PM, gave Rupert Murdoch’s troops the night.  The overrun itself had a massive […]

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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/29/13

Posted January 30, 2013 by Mitch Salem

The Tuesday sitcom picture has changed. FOX:  It wasn’t so long ago, back in the days when The Voice was still leading off the night for NBC, that New Girl struggled mightily just to keep up with Go On.  Last night’s major-event episode, though, more than doubled Go On‘s number, with a robust 2.5 (up […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 12.10-11.2016

Posted December 13, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday December 10-11, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K 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, December 12-13, […]

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THE SKED: The Sun Doesn’t Set On “Downton Abbey”

Posted February 19, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Viewership for the Season 3 finale of DOWNTON ABBEY wasn’t hurt at all (and may have been helped a bit) by the fact that its “surprise” death had been out there in the internet ether since the show aired in the UK last December.  The finale had a 5.2 household rating and an estimated […]

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