Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday April 29-30, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K 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, April 30-May […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up by 0.1 to 2.5, and FOX’s game adjusted up 0.3 to 0.7.  In addition, NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE primetime rerun had a 0.1 bump in final numbers, but 48 HOURS went down the same on CBS. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  […]

NBC Monday inched up a tenth of a rating point from the last two weeks — a very solid night top to bottom.  CBS appears to have had a good night (the best Monday in three weeks), but that 2.8 rating is probably inflated by at least two tenths of a rating point because of […]

NOTE: We’ll be holding our analysis of Thursday night network ratings until final numbers this afternoon, because ratings for each network were inflated as listed below by local major-market pre-emptions for a full slate of NFL Preseason games: ABC (pre-emptions in Los Angeles for the Chargers, Cleveland, Nashville and Buffalo) CBS (in New York for […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from a rerun week, HOLEY MOLEY gained 0.02 to 0.38, THE CHASE was up 0.06 to 0.36, and WHO DO YOU BELIEVE was at 0.23. CBS:  Reruns at 0.35/0.27/0.28. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was steady at 0.64, and DANCING WITH MYSELF was down 0.06 to 0.30. FOX:  Reruns at 0.21/0.17. […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Because of the many adjustments to the night’s ratings, a full analysis follows. Comparisons are to last week. ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE fell 0.03 to 1.3, and a BLACK-ISH rerun followed at 0.5. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR (1.3) and MIDNIGHT, TEXAS (0.6) were each down 0.1. FOX:  SO YOU […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  After adjustment for another baseball preemption in NY, both SUPERGIRL and IZOMBIE came down 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN had the NBA PLAYOFFS game of the night at 3.06.  On VH1, LOVE & HIP-HOP slipped […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The special TRUTH & LIES was at 0.49, followed by a rerun of the PROMISED LAND pilot at 0.18. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON fell a tenth to 0.73, and UNITED STATES OF AL ticked up to 0.54.  A pair of B POSITIVE episodes were at 0.50/0.46 compared to last week’s 0.50.  BULL […]