SUNDAY SPORTS.  Sunday was the extremely powerful doubleheader of the NFC and AFC Championship Games (26.1 and 27.9 Household ratings, respectively, in the 70% of the country covered by the 56 markets with local Nielsen meters).  Early in the day before football started, NBC managed a 1.4 rating for its second day of the strike-shortened […]

A bad night for most. CBS:  SURVIVOR returned from its hiatus with its lowest cycle premiere ever, a 2.4 that was down 0.7 from last Spring’s start.  The show ran 90 minutes, and CBS filled in the gap with a 1.6 BIG BANG THEORY rerun before CSI had a 2.1, just barely ahead of the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun FBI lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On a low-rated cable night, ID was unusually at the top with BRITTANY MURPHY: AN ID MYSTERY at 0.35, and […]

FORMAT NOTE:  As you see, we’ve added some new information to our daily ratings posts, with charts below by Mitch Metcalf showing not just the previous night’s 18-49 overnight ratings, but also the ratings for the parallel night one year ago.  The results, in some cases, are pretty startling. FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL is now a […]

A&E’s Duck Dynasty sits atop the cable ranking of all telecasts midway through this week.  Of course, we are saving the top spot for Sunday’s Walking Dead on AMC.  Easter Sunday is one of those rare holidays that don’t really depress TV viewing — AMC should certainly run an original episode Sunday. The lists below show […]

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). ###

  Say what you will about NBC, but no one right now can touch its Monday night. NBC:  Remarkably, the network made a last-minute decision to preempt last night’s Revolution (which featured a bombing storyline) in favor of a NBC News Special about the Boston Marathon bombings–and the news special did a 3.1, almost a […]

Super Bowl tracks for metered market overnight ratings below.  National ratings will be posted as available. Super Bowl Ratings Track: HOUSEHOLDS (HH) Metered Markets National Last nine years  HH Rtg Shr HH Rtg Shr 2017 FOX NE 34 ATL 28 48.8 72 45.3 70 2016 CBS DEN 24 CAR 10 49.0 73 46.6 72 2015 NBC […]