Posts Tagged ‘The Voice’
 

 

The Sked: Thursday Ratings — NBC’s Temptation to Permanently Strip The Voice Continues

CBS won Thursday night, as NBC got into the game on the night (kind of — if you call a 2.1 rating from 8-11 pm competing).  Once again, The Voice solved some more problems on yet another night, improving 90 of the 180 ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/23/12

> SMASHWatch likes it when Castle and Hawaii 5-0 take the night off. NBC:  Last night’s episode of SMASH, written by (soon to be ex-) showrunner Theresa Rebeck, featured a Bollywood fantasy number, a plot to undermin...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: MAY SWEEP UPDATE (through 4 nights)

>With four nights of the May Sweep in (Thursday’s official ratings and Friday-Sunday’s fast national ratings), here’s an early look at the final major ratings sweep period of the broadcast season, when ratings...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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: American Idol vs The Voice — The Gap Widens

>As the (relatively) highly-rated singing competition shows head toward their season finales, it is time to take a broader view of the full season ratings tracks for FOX’s American Idol and NBC’s The Voice.  Th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: TUESDAY RATINGS April 3

>The Voice results show at 9 pm lifted NBC to a weak first-place tie with ABC for the night, mainly because CBS took the night off with a slate of drama repeats.  The Voice edged Dancing with the Stars in the battle of res...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

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 Fall TV Ratings Predictions – Tuesday

  Our soothsaying group of former NBC head of Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, longtime head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and myself is continuing to set out instant, perhaps foolhardy predictions of what next fall’...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

NIELSENWAR: The NBC Fall 2019 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&#...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Monday Week 7

Another winning Monday night for NBC, although the 4.0 adult 18-49 rating in the preliminary fast nationals is actually at the low end for this season.  CBS, ABC and FOX are back to where they were three weeks ago, before the ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/3/12

> NEW GIRL is losing that new-show gleam. FOX:  Whether it’s been caused by the accumulated agony of FOX’s 4-sitcom schedule (with I Hate My Teenage Daughter and Raising Hope reruns as lead-ins), the reality re...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/16/12

> SMASHWatch is glad it’s on NBC. NBC:  Last night SMASH slipped for the first time below the Mason-Dixon line of network TV ratings, to a 1.9 (and in each of last 3 weeks, the show has declined further when final nu...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Monday September 10 Ratings

NBC got The Voice off to a good start last night, a 4.1 preliminary Adult 18-49 rating from 8-10 pm.  The singing competition show started at a 3.2 in the 8:00 half hour, quickly building to a 3.9 at 8:30 and 4.6 at 9:00 bef...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Monday Ratings September 17 — The Premieres Begin

NBC had a terrific first night of The Voice and Revolution combo.  In its second Monday this season, The Voice perked up to a 4.6 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-10 pm, up from a 4.2 last Monday.  There seemed to be a l...
by Mitch Metcalf