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THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR CHRONICLES: Wednesday

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 Presid...

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NIELSENWAR: The Value of Giant Sports Events

Thanks to the NCAA Tournament, CBS had a strong week, while the continuing decline of the new dramas on ABC and NBC dragged them down. CBS had the weekly win (Live + Same Day, 5 days actual + 2 days overnights) with 2....

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15: House Cleaning at NBC and ABC

If #6seasonsandamovie is going to happen for COMMUNITY, it won’t be at NBC, which finally fired the bullet that’s been aimed at Dan Harmon’s show seemingly every season since it went on the air. That ...

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NIELSENWAR: On “The Good Wife” and The Business of Plot Twists

{Note: SPOILERS will follow the weekly and season-to-date ratings below.} None of the networks are anywhere a 2 rating at this point of the season, with CBS on top last week thanks to its Mon-Wed line-up and less than ...

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NIELSENWAR: The CBS Fall Schedule

CBS doesn’t typically cultivate daring in its fall schedules, but this year it’s making one exception. Here’s a quick look (new shows are in ALL CAPS, new timeslots are in italics): MONDAY Sept-Oct ...

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NIELSENWAR: Welcome To The Break

NOTE: Season To Date and Weekly Network Ratings Charts Are Below Tonight is the last Monday of November sweeps, and with some variation (most notably because of baseball on FOX), most network series have been airing new...

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UPDATED WITH ANALYSIS–NIELSENWAR: The ABC Fall 2017 Schedule

Check out our looks at the NBC and FOX fall line-ups. ABC’s 2016-17 season was a tale of two genres. On the comedy side, things were relatively smooth, with American Housewife and Speechless painlessly integ...

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NIELSENWAR: Pre-Upfront – What Will the Networks Do?

The network averages for last week are significant because they represent a full week of sweeps programming, which means reruns were at a minimum and some stunting (although not a tremendous amount of it: a Chicago Fire/...

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SUMMER NIELSENWAR: How Bad Is It?

The broadcast networks are putting an unprecedented amount of original programming on their airwaves this summer. With the exception of CBS, which just began ramping up its summer campaign with the return of Big Brothe...

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NIELSENWAR: The Fall 2019 CW Schedule & Analysis

We’ve reached the broadcast networks’ Upfront Week… which used to be a lot more central to our television lives than it is now. Ratings everywhere are down, and there’s no reason to think they’ve hit bottom, which h...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15: ABC Pick-Ups and Renewals

ABC, unlike all the other networks, didn’t renew all its sure-thing returning shows weeks ago, so it had a lot to announce today. Most of these aren’t surprising, but the following series will be back next ...

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NIELSENWAR Week 3: Night-By-Night Network Ratings Impact

What do we know that we didn’t know last week? Here’s the big-picture view of where each network’s primetime average stands in comparison to 2012-13 after 3 full weeks of the season: NBC: 2.84 (+0.9%) C...

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NIELSENWAR: The CW Fall Schedule

CW had a successful season in 2014-15. launching the smash hit THE FLASH and the critical darling JANE THE VIRGIN. There wasn’t reason to change much, and the network didn’t. Here’s a look (new show...

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THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR: 2 Weeks In

So… how’s it going? We’ve completed 2 full weeks of the 2013-14 broadcast TV season, and while there are still a few arrivals on the way (notably ABC’s Once Upon A Time in Wonderland and the NBC F...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “Black-ish”

BLACK-ISH: Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC THE FACTS: Anthony Anderson plays the head of an African-American family that lives a prosperous life in a mostly white neighborhood, and he tries to hold onto some part of h...

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THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR CHRONICLES: Wednesday

NIELSENWAR: The Value of Giant Sports Events

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: House Cleaning at NBC and ABC

NIELSENWAR: On “The Good Wife” and The Business of Plot Twists

NIELSENWAR: The CBS Fall Schedule

NIELSENWAR: Welcome To The Break

UPDATED WITH ANALYSIS–NIELSENWAR: The ABC Fall 2017 Schedule

NIELSENWAR: Pre-Upfront – What Will the Networks Do?

SUMMER NIELSENWAR: How Bad Is It?

NIELSENWAR: The Fall 2019 CW Schedule & Analysis

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: ABC Pick-Ups and Renewals

NIELSENWAR Week 3: Night-By-Night Network Ratings Impact

NIELSENWAR: The CW Fall Schedule

THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR: 2 Weeks In

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “Black-ish”

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