Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL — Days 3 & 4

World Cup 2014 built more momentum over the weekend on ESPN, with the 5:30 pm matches on Saturday and Sunday the highest-rated contests so far on ESPN this year.  Further, even the lowest-rated ESPN match so far in 2014 is abo...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: THURSDAY Ratings 9.11.2014

Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings (adult 18-49 ratings for last night, the same night last year and same night last week).  The first Thursday Night Football game on CBS averaged a preliminary 5.5 adult 18-49 rating, an...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4.25.2016

  The night’s exits and returns didn’t excite many viewers. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-4...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.15.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  The CBS and NBC line-ups dropped across the board in final numbers, with the NCIS: LA rerun down 0.1, and the 2 hours of 48 HOURS down 0.2/0.2, while all of NBC’s shows lost 0.1.�...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.7.2019

      NETWORK FINALS:  Game 4 of the NBA FINALS adjusted to 4.3, down 1.1 from 2018’s Game 4 final rating.  Elsewhere, the HAWAII 5-0 rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadca...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.6.2016

      NETWORK FINALS:  MASTERCHEF, the AMERICA’S GOT TALENT recap show, and the reruns of MODERN FAMILY and FRESH OFF THE BOAT each gained 0.1 in final numbers, while WAYWARD PINES lost the same.   &n...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: The NBC Schedule – Grid and Instant Analysis

  NBC has kept a lot of is pieces in place, but also made some significant changes for next season, especially on its once-signature Thursday night.  Let’s dig in. MONDAY:  No surprise that THE VOICE is staying whe...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 11.11-12.2017

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 11-12, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 2 and Sunday November 3, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television populat...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Summer Olympics 2016: Final Ratings Track & The Case of Shrinking Program Length

Here is the final Summer Olympic ratings track for Rio 2016, with the official ratings for all 17 nights.  In terms of millions of viewers 2+, Rio finished above Sydney 2000, just above Athens 2004, but below Beijing 2008 an...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 4.22.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Both SURVIVOR and CRIMINAL MINDS gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did MODERN FAMILY and ARROW.  The rerun of SVU dropped 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT led Wednesday cable with 1.71 for the Clippers/Spurs...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.31.2016

        NETWORK FINALS:  The post-football adjustments for CBS were even more brutal than expected. KEVIN CAN WAIT lost 0.1 to 1.3, while both MAN WITH A PLAN and 2 BROKE GIRLS dropped 0.2 to twin 1.3s, and...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Dallas”

  DALLAS – Wednesday 9PM on TNT:  If Nothing Else Is On…   DALLAS is a gusher, all right.  TNT’s disinterment of the 1980s blockbuster soap is loaded with so many emptily portentous glares and melo...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.27.2016

      NETWORK FINALS:  CBS’s national PRESEASON NFL game held at 1.0 in final numbers, as did FOX’s 0.8 for UFC FIGHT NIGHT.  Local NFL preemptions were likely responsible for most if not all of the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: Ratings That Mean Something… and Ratings That Don’t

  Every Sunday now, the networks issue press releases to celebrate the giant gains made by shows during the full week following their initial airing, ratings known as “L7.”  Armed with numbers from a couple of...
by Mitch Salem