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Top Cable Shows of the Week: A Returning Feature

A&E’s Duck Dynasty sits atop the cable ranking of all telecasts midway through this week.  Of course, we are saving the top spot for Sunday’s Walking Dead on AMC.  Easter Sunday is one of those rare holidays ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/27/13

Even without The Voice as an excuse, most networks headed downward. FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL continued to plunge, down half a ratings point to 3.1, which happens to be just 0.1 ahead of X Factor’s average last fall. ABC:...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Rejoice! Baseball Coverage on TV to Radically Improve

Baseball fans around the country were treated to some wonderful news yesterday: FOX Sports analyst Tim McCarver announced his retirement during a typically long-winded conference call filled with the false humility that is his...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/25/13

The Voice sings sweetly for NBC, NBC:  To the great relief of NBC, THE VOICE returned with a 4.7 rating, higher than the show’s fall average and just slightly below the highest rating of its fall cycle.  (It was, how...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: Weekly & Season Network Ratings

Thanks to the NCAA tournament and more original episodes on the other nights, CBS moved back into first place for the week ending Sunday.  Based on four nights of official ratings and three nights of adjusted fast nationals, C...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/24/13

  CBS:  From Mitch Metcalf:  The regular CBS Sunday schedule is on a 45-50 minute slide.  The NCAA tournament ran over to about 7:50 pm (North Carolina vs Kansas).  The 3.8 adult 18-49 rating shown above is an adjusted...
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The Sked: WEDNESDAY Ratings Charts

A quick post today with just the ratings charts for last night.  Complete coverage to return soon. Wednesday night fast national ratings compared to the official nationals for the same night last year: Original episode track f...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/17/13

  Daylight Savings Time only made ABC’s Sunday troubles worse. ABC:  It’s getting harder to label ONCE UPON A TIME as a “hit,” with last night’s episode tying its series-low 2.2 and the num...
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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/13/13

On a night of reruns, no one sought out the original programming either. FOX:  Remember when the knock on X-Factor was “well, it’s no AMERICAN IDOL“?  The distance is narrowing:  last night’s 3.6 for ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: The Cycle of Failure (and Success) at a TV Network — Or How Matlock Replaced The Office and SVU Last Night

  UPDATE:  The Hollywood Reporter followed up on our story, and interviewed WKYC’s General Manager, who claims that the Matlock preemptions (which will continue next week), are merely to make up for the fact that th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: The Value of Sports Programming and Updated Full Season Forecasts

What does football mean to the broadcast networks?  For NBC and CBS, NFL coverage (along with other sports, mostly an occasional college football game) accounts for about 20-30% of the entire primetime rating for the network. ...
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Season Averages: FOX Poised to Move Into 2nd Place Soon, Pushing NBC to 3rd

Through February 4 (20 weeks into this broadcast season), CBS leads with a 2.70 rating with adults 18-49, followed by NBC (2.40), FOX (2.19) and ABC (1.83).  But very soon, FOX will move past NBC in the season averages and is ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings Bowl

SUNDAY SPORTS.  The second game of an NBA doubleheader on ABC drew decent ratings Sunday (Lakers at Heat), hitting a 5.0 household rating and 10 share in the 54 markets which were able to be measured over the weekend.  (The b...
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Weekly and Season Network Ratings: CBS Widens Its Lead

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (February 4-10, 2013), CBS won again with a preliminary 3.35 adult 18-49 rating for the week.  This week’s win is driven by last night’s Grammy Awards (pr...
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The Sked: Fast Nationals Overview — SMASH Crashes and Burns Spectacularly

Without The Voice to support it, Smash started its second season with a ratings trainwreck to match the creative disaster that is the show.  Read Mitch Salem’s review here. Half-hour ratings for network television la...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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