NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.6, down 0.4 from last week’s game.  Elsewhere, THE SIMPSONS fell 0.5 after football adjustment, while BLESS THE HARTS, BOB’S BURGERS and 60 MINUTES lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It’s a familiar story […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Local sports preemptions probably caused the across-the-board drops at CW, where the shows were respectively down 0.1/0.2/0.1.  In addition, the rerun AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Friday cable, […]

The week’s good times stop rolling for the networks.  (Note, comparisons are to 2 weeks ago, as shows were either preempted on Thanksgiving night or had atypical numbers.) ABC:  LAST RESORT, now just playing out its string, hit a new low 1.0.  The night didn’t get better at 9PM, where GREY’S ANATOMY tied its season […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE was steady at 0.55, and THE ROOKIE: FEDS was up 0.06 to 0.29. CBS:  FBI slipped 0.02 to 0.53, FBI: INTERNATIONAL rose 0.08 to 0.48, and FBI: MOST WANTED was up a tenth to 0.48. NBC:  THE VOICE was steady at 0.60, LA BREA dropped 0.06 to 0.32, […]

Sunday preliminary broadcast ratings:

  Another big TV night for the Democrats.. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS was at 0.41.  AMERICAN IDOL crashed by three-tenths to 0.65.  A STEP INTO THE MOVIES special was at 0.34. CBS:  With a big NCAA TOURNAMENT lead-in, 60 MINUTES jumped 0.31 to 1.04.  THE EQUALIZER gained 0.03 to 0.65, NCIS: LA rose 0.09 to 0.53, and […]

  A dip for wrestling. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 follows the chart. […]