Posts Tagged ‘TV ratings’
 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 20 and Sunday July 21, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED NIELSENWAR CHRONICLES – Friday

  Friday isn’t yet Saturday for the broadcast networks–there’s still plenty of original programming on the night.  But declining ratings and revenues have made it something like the network Island of Mis...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/21/12

ABC bundles up for a long, cold summer. ABC:  The Oklahoma City Thunder only had one win in them against the Heat, and while last night’s NBA FINALS Game 5 was the overwhelming winner of the night, beating all 5 competin...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/3/12

A night of mostly declines. NBC: THE VOICE fell 0.3 to 3.9,  still the highest-rated show of the night.  BLAKE SHELTON’S NOT SO FAMILY CHRISTMAS held very well, with a 2.8 that was higher than several recent episodes of...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/27/12

Nobody is earning any stripes at NBC. NBC:  STARS EARN STRIPES is now a full-fledged disaster, falling to 0.9 in its 3rd week.  GRIMM fell a bit as well to 1.6 against reruns, which isn’t much better than the show had b...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/7/12

    SMASHWatch is glad TV shows don’t close in Boston.  NBC:  Last night’s SMASH pulled off the trick of being both melodramatic (poisoning! illicit sex!) and remarkably dull, an anticlimactic way to hea...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/15/12

Network Programmer conversation today:  “OK, Niagara Falls on a high wire worked–next time, let’s do someone walking on his hands across the Grand Canyon.” “Hopping across the Sahara Desert!”...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: Sun/Mon Cable Ratings Scorecard – 7/21-22

  SUNDAY HBO:  It’s still TRUE BLOOD season, and even though the show slipped 0.1 to 2.4 among 18-49s, holding more or less even in total viewers at 4.5M, that was by far the biggest cable rating of the night.  In ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/28/12

> NBC’s sitcoms don’t get a fond farewell. NBC:  How bad was the network’s night?  Its highest rating was a 1.5 for the season finale of WHITNEY.  About the best you could say about that number ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Sunday Cable Scorecard – 10/27/13

  AMC:  In the single least-surprising development of the season (perhaps the century), THE WALKING DEAD has just been renewed for a 5th season.  Slightly more surprisingly, it appears as though Scott M. Gimple, with sur...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 4.16-17.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 16 and Sunday April 17, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television populatio...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/16/12

> America is willing to follow FOX behind bars. FOX:  The 2-hour launch of ALCATRAZ went very well, with a solid 3.3 that held throughout the broadcast.  That put the network squarely in 2d place for the night behind ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Wednesday Scripted Cable Scorecard – 6/20/12

Dallas isn’t a flash in the pan. TNT:  The 2d episode of DALLAS held up well from its premiere–surprisingly, even more so with younger audiences than with total viewers.  18-49 demo number fell from 1.5 to 1.3, a ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED REBOOT REVIEW: “CSI”

> After 3 years of the morass that was Laurence Fishburne’s tenure, the original CSI:  CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, now with a new Wednesday 10PM timeslot, may have recaptured some of its old mojo.  The potential ...
by Mitch Salem