The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 12 and Sunday April 13, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   PGA Golf: The Masters “Hello, Friends…” 4.4 rating CBS 3:00 pm Saturday 3rd Round (-30% […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AGENTS OF SHIELD narrowly averted this morning’s series low with an 0.1 adjustment upward, but while THE VOICE was also up 0.1, that just put it at a slightly higher series low.  The rest of the morning’s awful numbers remained as-is. TUESDAY CABLE:  TNT led again with NBA PLAYOFF games at 2.0/1.8, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only change from preliminary numbers was a 0.1 gain for the NASCAR race on FOX. SATURDAY CABLE:  On BBC America, ORPHAN BLACK was up very slightly to 0.25, with follow-up IN THE FLESH barely registering at 0.03.  ESPN dominated the night with a 2.7 for its NBA PLAYOFFS game. SUNDAY CABLE:  […]

Day 7 of the World Cup (Wednesday) turned in mediocre ratings on ESPN by 2014 standards (2.3 to 3.2 million viewers for the three matches, on the bottom half of the ranking chart).  But the 2:30 and 5:30 matches yesterday would still be above the 2010 ESPN average for Group Stage (early round) matches, while […]

Demographic ratings for the Quarterfinals of the 2014 World Cup are starting to roll in.  The two matches on Friday July 4 were a mixed bag.  The 11:30 am match on ESPN2 (Germany vs France) averaged 4.2 million viewers of any age, ranking #14 out of 58 matches for this year’s World Cup but the […]

  Below are the ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts last Friday.  Friday cable is mostly for fans of WWE and the Disney Channel, but here are the numbers for a couple of other shows of interest:  THE KNICK (Cinemax) held almost exactly with the previous week at 0.13 and 407K […]

      BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  The line-up was down:  PRESS YOUR LUCK by 0.05 to 0.42, THE $100,000 PYRAMID by a tick to 0.50, and SUPERSTAR by 0.05 to 0.30. CBS:  BIG BROTHER dropped 0.04 to 0.90  HOUSE CALLS WITH DR PHIL premiered at 0.27, followed by the special DECLASSIFIED at 0.21. NBC:  AMERICA’S […]

  Time for the Utopia?  More like Dystopia! gag. FOX:  UTOPIA crashed by more than half from its preview airing on Sunday night, down to 0.9 against mostly weak summer competition.  To say this bodes badly for the new series once the real competition (NCIS, The Voice) arrives is an understatement.  A special MOTEL HELL […]