Without The Voice to support it, Smash started its second season with a ratings trainwreck to match the creative disaster that is the show.  Read Mitch Salem’s review here. Half-hour ratings for network television last night are shown below.  Most notably, Smash started at 1.3 rating with adults 18-49 (already down from its very modest lead-in, Betty White’s 2nd Annual 90th Birthday — […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday March 14 through Sunday March 20, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s regional MLB coverage adjusted up to 0.6, and the rerun SONGLAND gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Saturday cable, down a tick to 0.66.  Fox Sports 1’s CONCACAF GOLD CUP match […]

  NOTE TO READERS:  For the next week, text and responses to Comment requests will be delayed, probably until the night after the charts were posted.  In addition, it’s likely that the only box office post this weekend will be the Year To Date/Studio Scorecard piece on Sunday.  Things should return to normal by April […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The special TOGETHER AS ONE was at 0.27, and 20/20 dropped 0.07 to 0.28. CBS:  COME DANCE WITH ME ticked down to 0.25, followed by reruns at 0.19/0.21. NBC:  The season finale of THE BLACKLIST was at 0.24, up a tick from last week and up 0.02 from the 2021 finale […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday February 25 through Sunday March 3, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the same […]

  The final night of the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION remained within the 0.2-0.4 range of the previous nights.  In 2016 Night 4 rose from Night 3, although that was mostly because CBS (which had Thursday’s big lead-in) doubled its Wednesday number.  DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same […]

The MLK holiday will cause delays for daily nationals ratings (cable and broadcast finals) for a few days.  This is how the ratings should roll out this week.  We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific.) Friday Jan 15 nationals rescheduled to Tuesday Jan 19 at 1 pm (normally Monday afternoon) Saturday Jan 16 nationals rescheduled to Wednesday Jan 20 at 6 am (normally […]