Posts Tagged ‘television’
 

 

The Sked: Monday Week Four

NBC Monday moved up again, a 4.3 Adult 18-49 prime time rating in the fast nationals (probably a 4.4 in the official nationals). CBS and ABC are even with recent weeks.  FOX earned a 1.3 in the fast nationals for Game 2 of St ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: MONDAY Ratings Preview

>The new television season is here.  The kids are back in school, summer is a distant memory, and the Emmy telecast has ended.  It’s time for the networks to unleash a flurry of season premieres and series debut...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

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. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

THE SKED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’S FALL 2011/12 SATURDAY TV SCHEDULE

> Welcome to ShowbuzzDaily’s coverage of the upcoming TV schedules for the 2011/12 TV season!  Above you see our guide to what to expect on Saturday nights this Fall:  the numbers are our projected Adults 18-49 ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Wednesday Ratings September 19

FOX won the night with two hours of The X Factor, a preliminary 3.5 Adult 18-49 rating from 8-10 pm.  This is up one tenth from the 3.4 premiere last Wednesday and could possibly rise to a 3.6 in the official nationals, but F...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Wednesday Week 6 — Scary Halloween for Networks

Halloween always depresses television usage levels of 2-34 year-olds, but last night it looks like 35-49 year-olds also took the night off from watching TV in greater than normal numbers.  Just an awful night for network TV, w...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

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
 

 
 

Cable (and Broadcast) Ratings: The Week to Date

Here is how the week is shaping up for the top cable telecasts (in bold) and top broadcast programs (in regular type) for this week through Thursday, ranked by adult 18-49 rating.  The complete ranking for last week is provide...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: SATURDAY Ratings This Fall

> If you liked the ratings projections post for Fridays, you’ll love this post for SATURDAYS.   Six hours of repeats on the broadcast networks, a withering reality franchise in Cops, and one original script...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: America’s Got Talent Sees No Olympic Lift

NBC eked out a narrow victory Tuesday, averaging a 2.3 Adult 18-49 rating in prime time.  America’s Got Talent returned to the air with a 2.7 rating from 8-10 pm, exactly where it was on July 24, the last Tuesday teleca...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TV NEWS AND NOTES: Salt Lake City Tries To Shut Down NBC’s “Playboy Club”

>It’s no big surprise that NBC’s station in Salt Lake City (KSL, which is owned by the Mormon church) will not carry Playboy Club this fall.  Similarly, this station does not clear Saturday Night Live (either i...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Tuesday Ratings — America’s Got Talent Sags

NBC held on to win another Tuesday last night, with a soft 2.1 Adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm (down from a 2.3 last week and the fairly routine 2.2-2.3 before the Olympics started).  America’s Got Talent remains the hi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: The Skinny on the Nation’s TV Markets

> With all due respect to your geography class, the United States is really not made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia.  Readers of this website know it is a patchwork of 210 television markets, also known as De...
by Mitch Salem