Posts Tagged ‘cbs’
 

 

SKEDBALL: March Madness Ratings Overview

After the “First Four” play-in games, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament really gets going on Thursday with the traditional 64-team format. The chart below illustrates the build in TV audiences as March Madn...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Broadcast Season to Date Rankings

SEASON TO DATE through eight full weeks (54 nights of official ratings and 2 nights of adjusted fast nationals through Sunday, November 18, 2012): NBC is averaging a 2.79 adult 18-49 rating in prime time (up 14% from the same ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Sunday Week 5 — FOX Steals a Sunday Victory from NBC

It looks like NBC suffered its first Sunday defeat of the new season.  The Sunday Night Football game certainly out-rated Game 4 of the World Series, but FOX built a commanding lead in the 7 pm hour alone with the controversia...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

AUDIENCE MAP: CBS Primetime

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at the detailed demographics for CBS’s primetime schedule for this season to date.  As a reminder, the audience shares for 30 distinct gender-age groups are displayed for eac...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Unforgettable”

  UNFORGETTABLE:  Sunday 9PM on CBS – If Nothing Else Is On… You may already have forgotten UNFORGETTABLE.  It debuted in fall 2011 as one of CBS’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of procedurals, its par...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: STRONG OVERNIGHTS FOR GRAMMYS

>Metered market overnight ratings were very strong for The Grammys on CBS, which averaged a 22.0 household rating and 33 share from 8-11 pm.  60 Minutes began the night with a solid 10.4 rating and 16 share, followed by th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: March Madness TV Ratings through the First Friday (Updated with Tournament Averages to Date)

A very normal set of ratings for the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Friday, March 20, the second and final day of the Round of 64.  After a very exciting Thursday with many upsets and close games, Friday was more by the book, w...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Under the Dome”

  UNDER THE DOME:  Monday 10PM on CBS – Potential DVR Alert Much of CBS’s programming philosophy is built around the steady reliability of its reruns, so on the face of it, the Eye would seem least likely of t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Do No Harm” Dies On the Table, “Up All Night” Begs To Join It and More

  We noted last night that it wouldn’t be a surprise if the second episode of DO NO HARM turned out to also be its last, and after the ratings dropped from last week’s premiere to an even more horrific 0.7, the...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: FRIDAY RATINGS June 22 — A Portrait of Two News Divisions

An abysmal night of television Friday night for the most part, with the top-rated broadcast network (ABC) averaging a 1.1 preliminary Adult 18-49 rating.  NBC was a close second at a 1.0 rating from 8-11 pm, but NBC News disti...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: SATURDAY Ratings 11.8.2014

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+ s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: FRIDAY RATINGS March 16

>CBS had a good night with the NCAA basketball tournament, averaging a preliminary 2.2 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-11 pm and beating the 1.5 rating from last year’s comparable night.  Credit goes to a thrilling u...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Updated Super Bowl National Ratings

The ratings for last night’s Super Bowl are coming in a little lower than anticipated in terms of average audience (the number of households or viewers watching in an average minute), but the “total audience” ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: “3” Reaches Zero

  After just 2 episodes and less than a single week, CBS has yanked the disastrous dating show 3 from its schedule.  No one can blame it:  the show launched with a “special” airing on Thursday after Big Broth...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED PREMIERE REVIEW: “Rob”

> ROB – Thursdays 8:30PM on CBS – Change the Channel We live in a Dickensian era of situation comedies, the best and worst combined on every network.  ABC is the home of both Modern Family and Work It; NBC cont...
by Mitch Salem