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A New Way to Look at TV Viewers: The AUDIENCE MAP of American Idol & Empire

We spend a lot of time talking about demographics such as adults 18-49 or women 18-34, but those groups are still fairly broad abstractions of the television audience, which of course is made up of individual people. Although...

by Mitch Metcalf

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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/9/11

> A seemingly atypical night turned out to be fairly typical after all. ABC: The network preempted its entire line-up for the CMA AWARDS, and did very well, with a preliminary 4.8 that was up a tick from last year’s...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 9/28/11

> Everyone was down, as the new season started to settle in on itself–but some were down more than others. ABC: MODERN FAMILY is doing quite spectacularly, more than 20% above last season’s average. The ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/14/13

Valentine’s Day didn’t heart network television, especially early in the evening. ABC: About the best that can be said about the 1.3 debut of ZERO HOUR is that it edged out NBC and CW for 3rd place in the hour. ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/8/12

> Somewhere, Edward R. Murrow weeps. CBS: The attempt to resurrect Murrow’s 59-year old celebrity interview vehicle PERSON TO PERSON with Charlie Rose and Lara Logan flopped badly with a 1.1 (wait, people didn’...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/9/12

Sometimes a win can also be a disappointment. FOX: AMERICAN IDOL was the highest rated show on the air last night, and gave FOX the nightly win. But… its 4.4 was a series Wednesday low, down 0.3 f...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecardj – 10/12/11

> A smiley face for one network and a frowny one for another, on the third night this week disrupted by postseason baseball. ABC: Everything came up fairly rosy last night at the Alphabet. SUBURGATORY should be inch...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/21/13

Not the kind of history the major networks like to set. CW: Last night may have been the first time a CW series beat not one, but two of the big networks, as THE VAMPIRE DIARIES climbed an impressive 0.3 to 1.3 and NBC and AB...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED: The Return of COMMUNITY! (And Other NBC Stuff)

> If you hear bells pealing and catch sight of Human Beings dancing (well, not so much dancing as meta-dancing that references obscure pop culture artifacts from 20 years ago), it’s because NBC has finally freed COMMUNITY...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED: NBC Fall Schedule and Instant Analysis

There’s an old saying that you can’t plan for crazy. And that brings us to some of NBC’s official Fall TV schedule: Let’s take a look, night by night. MONDAY: Things begin logica...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 11/2/11

> After 2 nights of sinking numbers, stability returned to the ratings on Wednesday. ABC: All in all, a good night. The first half of the evening was down a tenth or so here and there, but the network got help where...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/28/12

Post-Sweeps malaise. NBC: Cleveland must be feeling pretty good about its preemptions last night, as the 9-11PM regular network schedule averaged under a 1.0 rating, with 0.9s for a new 1600 PENN and rerun SVU, and a 1.0 for ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD- 2/22/12

> At FOX, perhaps the most terrifying 7 words in the English language: AMERICAN IDOL May Not Have Hit Bottom. FOX: Despite no special competition on any other network, Idol‘s 5.1 was down a full ratings point ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/16/12

ABC is glad last night happened after its Upfronts. ABC: With the exception of THE MIDDLE, which stayed even (albeit at its season low 1.9), everything plunged: SUBURGATORY‘s season finale down 0....

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/14/13

A historically bad night. FOX: That sound was every FOX executive’s communal indigestion, as once-mighty AMERICAN IDOL hit its all-time low for a regularly-scheduled episode, a 3.0 that was just barely over X Fac...

by Mitch Salem

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A New Way to Look at TV Viewers: The AUDIENCE MAP of American Idol & Empire

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/9/11

THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 9/28/11

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/14/13

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/8/12

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/9/12

THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecardj – 10/12/11

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/21/13

THE SKED: The Return of COMMUNITY! (And Other NBC Stuff)

THE SKED: NBC Fall Schedule and Instant Analysis

THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 11/2/11

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/28/12

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD- 2/22/12

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/16/12

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/14/13

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