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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/10/13

  The fans came back for Finn. FOX:  Last night’s special GLEE episode, commemorating the character played by the late Cory Monteith, almost doubled the show’s rating from last week, up 1.2 to 2.8.  It was Gl...
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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/30/12

> Don’t give up on Fringe just yet. FOX:  Maybe all the fans really were at The Hunger Games last week.  FRINGE had a huge rebound to 1.2 last night, which still put it in 3d place for the hour (this is Fringe, ...
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The Sked: Ratings Obsession — What Does a Tenth of a Rating Point Really Mean?

>When the television ratings come in each morning, there is often a lot of attention paid to a rating that might be up only one tenth of a rating point from the prior week or the prior year.  (More recently, most ratings i...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: THURSDAY RATINGS January 5

>ABC again was the only major network with original episodes, giving it a first-place finish.  Mini-network The CW (not usually tracked in this column) also had original drama telecasts and finished ahead of fifth-place NB...
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THE SKED: TUESDAY — Early Results

>NBC’s Parenthood premiered last night to a 2.3 Adult 18-49 rating in the fast nationals.  This is down 36% from the America’s Got Talent lead-in and down 15% from last season’s premiere episode...
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The Sked: THURSDAY RATINGS February 16

>FOX Thursday was up from last week, thanks to a second hour of American Idol replacing The Finder at 9 pm.  But those two hours of Idol were also the lowest Thursday episode to date.  CBS was also down a bit from rec...
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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/4/13

You can’t go wrong with football. FOX:  Most of the major college bowl games have migrated to ESPN, but the COTTON BOWL remains on broadcast (for now), and gave FOX an easy win for the night, with a preliminary 3.1 ratin...
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The Sked: THURSDAY RATINGS October 6

> ABC is really losing audience on Thursdays at a rapid pace.  They could fall below already-weak NBC on the night.  Charlie’s Angels needs to go, but what are they going to replace it with?  Grey’s A...
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UPDATED: WORLD CUP SKEDBALL (Final Weekend Ratings)

Updated: The ABC ratings for daytime last Sunday are finally in and the 224-minute telecast of the FIFA World Cup Final (from 2:00-5:44 pm ET) averaged over 14 million viewers, making it the #1 match of 2014 on English-languag...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: Ratings Update for Monday October 31

> It doesn’t look good for Rock Center with Brian Williams on NBC.  In the metered market market overnights (excluding New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Hartford, which are still delayed because of widespread power ...
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Announcing Metcalf Entertainment Intelligence

  Anyone who’s been following the tumult in television, typified by the recently-concluded WGA strike and the ongoing-as-of-this-post SAG-AFTRA strike, knows that a key issue for the industry is that the streamers, w...
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Election Night 2016 TV Ratings

Presidential Election coverage on the combined seven major networks (the four broadcast networks plus CNN, Fox News Channel and MNSBC) averaged just over 61 million people (two years or older) in an average minute of prime tim...
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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/27/13

  Univision topped all but one English-language network last night. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT won the night, but it only tied last week’s Tuesday low 2.2. ABC:  EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS was down 0.2 for the night...
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THE SKED: “Partners” Is Dissolved

  CBS has canceled PARTNERS, and pulled it from the Monday night schedule.  The show, created by the Will & Grace team of Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, never got a grip on much viewership, and was by far the lowest-r...
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AUDIENCE MAP: FOX Primetime

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at the detailed demographics for FOX’s primetime schedule for this season to date.  As a reminder, the audience shares for 30 distinct gender-age groups are displayed for eac...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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