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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.20.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted up to 1.4 in final numbers.  Elsewhere the rerun of SUPERSTORE fell 0.1, and DATELINE fell 0.2.         Broadcast Official Nationals P...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Jackie Robinson & Branch Rickey: Thoughts on 42 from a Lifelong Dodger Fan

In the movie 42, Jackie Robinson (played by Chadwick Boseman) repeatedly asks Branch Rickey why he is breaking baseball’s unwritten whites-only rule.  Rickey (played by Harrison Ford) gives very vague, unsatisfying resp...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.11.2020

  A strong performance from a primetime game show special. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 6.30.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  It was a night of reruns on all the English-language networks.  On ABC, they were at 0.40/0.32/0.28. CBS:  0.31/0.23/0.20/0.20/0.20. NBC:  0.25/0.28/0.23. FOX:  0.21/0.21. CW:  0.02/0.02. TEL...
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings Bowl

The Daytona 500 on FOX Sunday crushed the competition, averaging a 10.0 household rating and 22 share from 1:30-4:45 in the 70% of the country with local Nielsen meters (in 56 of the largest TV markets).  Last year, the race a...
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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 10.2.2016

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is now +3% above last year and still +5% above the average for this point the past four...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.23.2016

  Aside from NBC’s primetime game, both CBS and FOX had afternoon NFL overruns that slid their schedules in part of the country, so many of the numbers below will be adjusted tomorrow. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each b...
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The Sked: Summer Olympics through Day 4

Monday night’s Olympics coverage on NBC scored a solid 10.5 rating with Adults 18-49, just a tenth of a point off Beijing’s pace but well ahead of Athens and Sydney. FOX went with repeats of Hell’s Kitchen M...
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 22 and Sunday March 23, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population...
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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 10.12.2014

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Fox rolls on, running away with 2014 worldwide with another $144 million this week (mostly from continued strong overseas grosses from Maze Runner and Gone Girl).  Fox is a huge #1 with almost ...
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FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE February 6-12

>Six full weeks into 2012, domestic box office continues to run well ahead of last year’s anemic pace and now has moved slightly ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years.  The Vow off...
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The Sked: SATURDAY Ratings 10.4.2014

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Saturday, 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 adu...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.13.2015

  Some last-minute changes due to the awful news from Paris didn’t shake up the ratings. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demograp...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4.28.2016

  May sweeps didn’t arrive with fireworks. 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), a...
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.7.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary network ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s...
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