BROADCAST FINALS ABC: THE GOLDBERGS returned from a rerun week down 0.05 to 0.44, followed by a WONDER YEARS rerun at 0.26, then THE CONNERS was back from reruns down 0.03 to 0.40, followed by a HOME ECONOMICS rerun at 0.27. A MILLION LITTLE THINGS ticked down to 0.25. CBS: SURVIVOR gained 0.06 to […]
NETWORK UPDATE: ROOKIE BLUE gained 0.1 to avoid a series low. The rest of the news was bad: HELL’S KITCHEN, GANG RELATED, and all the new episodes of UNDATEABLE were down 0.1 from preliminary ratings. THURSDAY CABLE: On a night that didn’t feature much new original programming, Adult Swim’s LOITER SQUAD led the evening […]
EMPIRE dominated a night with many reruns. 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 […]
Other Nielsenwar Network Report Cards: NBC One massive hit can make up for an awful lot of failure. Have you met EMPIRE? Full Season To Date (thru May 3) 18-49 Rating Average: 1.53 (#4), down 26.2% from last season (Note: FOX aired the Super Bowl in 2014-15; with that excluded, the year-to-year drop was […]
Our saga of the hour-by-hour battle for territory on the broadcast network landscape continues. Today, the motley group of series that make up Wednesdays–although due to scheduling strategies and the first Presidential debate on October 3, some of the new arrivals won’t be launching for a couple of weeks. (Note, again, that CW’s targeted […]
NETWORK UPDATE: No changes from this morning, as MOTIVE and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE retained their increases from last week. WEDNESDAY CABLE: DUCK DYNASTY (A&E) was the highest-rated cable show of the night, but it was down a further 0.3 to 1.5 after last week’s tumble from the previous season’s premiere. It […]
A mixed response to the new arrivals. 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 […]
NETWORK FINALS: THE GOLDBERGS, BLINDSPOT and MODERN FAMILY each gained 0.1 in final numbers, while BLACK-ISH lost the same. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: FX’s LEGION had a solid start with 0.69 in the 18-49 demo. It was particularly strong with […]