NETWORK FINALS:  EMPIRE went up an extra 0.1 in final numbers (it actually hit 5.0 in its last 15 minutes), but CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS, SURVIVOR and the rerun of THE MIDDLE all lost 0.1.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On a very subdued […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 13 and Sunday December 14, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 15 Sunday 12.3 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly DEN-SD MIA-NE HOU-IND […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SINGLE PARENTS and CHICAGO PD lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TBS’s ALCS MLB PLAYOFFS game topped Wednesday cable at 1.73, with Fox Sports 1’s NLCS game at 0.88.  ESPN’s NBA games were at 0.69/0.56.  The […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only changes from last week’s preliminary New Year’s Eve network ratings were extra 0.1s for both parts of NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE and for the 8PM rerun of BLUE BLOODS. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): All the […]

  We’re continuing our survey of the fall primetime schedule (our merry band includes former head of NBC Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, former head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and myself) with Thursdays, when CBS will finally do what people have been expecting for the past several seasons and expand to a 4-sitcom night.  (Here […]

  Not a tuneful night for country music. 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 […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals). The same rank order for the broadcast networks this week as last: FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC. Collectively, the four networks are down a slight -3% from last week, but they are down a staggering […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 27: June 27-July 3, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]