Some improvement for ABC’s game show line-up. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]
Live events remain one of the last bastions of network TV. ABC: Despite facing a monster football game, the AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS were up a full 1.1 over last year’s edition to 4.5, towering over the numbers ABC has gotten with regular programming this fall. NBC: There was never any doubt that the Tom […]
AFTERNOON UPDATE: The BARBARA WALTERS 10 MOST FASCINATING PEOPLE special gained 0.1, going out on a high note with 2.2. In addition, the Celine Dion HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS special picked up 0.1, bringing it to a still-low 0.7, while the IHEARTRADIO JINGLE BELL special was less impressive after it lost 0.1 to 0.5. […]
American Idol‘s woes continued last night. (So did everyone else’s.) FOX: On a year-to-year basis, Thursday’s plunge for AMERICAN IDOL was even worse than Wednesday’s, down an awful 1.7 from last season’s 2d night to 3.9. There seems to be a real chance that this will be the first season Idol has sub-3 numbers […]
Last night’s Winter Olympic coverage from Sochi on NBC averaged a preliminary 6.4 adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm. Events last night included: Women’s Super Combined, Men’s Moguls, and Men’s 1500m Short Track. If NBC excludes the 8:00 half hour (if it held national commercials until 8:30 pm), the nightly rating will be a 6.6 adult […]
NETWORK FINALS: NBC’s primetime NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 7.32. In addition, FOR LIFE adjusted to the next tenth. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Although the ratings were lower than in recent days, CNN was again dominant on Saturday cable with 15 […]
AFTERNOON UPDATE: Nothing moved by more than 0.1 from this morning, although there were a few shifts that accomplished points of pride. Thanks to the last-minute lift, NASHVILLE avoided its low with 1.3, while an upward move for AMERICAN IDOL (2.7) and a downward one for SURVIVOR (2.4) widened their gap to 0.3. However, […]
AFTERNOON UPDATE: As expected, once the 10:01PM start was factored in, THE VOICE went up 0.1 and THE BLACKLIST went down the same. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER also climbed 0.1, as did both ABC shows, while INTELLIGENCE was down 0.1. MONDAY CABLE: The season finales of SWITCHED AT BIRTH and THE FOSTERS (both […]