Posts Tagged ‘TV ratings’
 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/11/12

It was quite the 10PM hour on broadcast TV last night, as both NBC and ABC aired episodes largely revolving around their shows’ cancer patients. NBC:  PARENTHOOD scored a convincing win in the hour, matching its season h...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: STATE OF THE SEASON Slouching Toward the Finish Line

>Earlier this month, we looked at the sorry state of broadcast ratings since January.  Since the start of Daylight Saving Time, the outlook hasn’t gotten any better.  Dividing the season to date into thirds, the...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/7/13

  As the new season settles, just about everything last night was down. CBS:  All of the 8-10PM sitcoms were down 0.2 from last week:  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER to 2.9, WE ARE MEN to 1.8, 2 BROKE GIRLS to 2.2 and MOM to 2.0....
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: “Boss” Not the Boss of Cable

> It’s lucky that BOSS is a bid for prestige by Starz, because it’s certainly not doing much on the ratings front.  The initial airing on Friday had a total of 659,000 viewers, which wouldn’t even be much...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: GCB Ratings Forecast

>GCB finally arrives Sunday night at 10 after Desperate Housewives, as it lurches toward its series finale in May.  With a little luck, we will stop hearing “we shall receive” in the ABC promos at a carpet-bomb...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: “Nashville” Keeps Twanging

  Yesterday ABC announced a full-season order for NASHVILLE, adding the usual back 9 to its initial 13 episodes.  The show’s ratings haven’t been great, hovering in the 1.8-2.0 neighborhood in recent weeks, bu...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: TUESDAY RATINGS January 31

>On Thursday the February sweep will begin and suddenly original episodes will abound on the network schedules.  In the meantime, we have a night like last night where FOX was the only broadcast network with a full slate o...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: “Walking Dead” Devours More Ratings Records

> This morning we anticipated that the season finale of THE WALKING DEAD on AMC would outrate anything on network television last night, but that didn’t do justice to Dead‘s accomplishment.  In the finale’...
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 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: Thursday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10./27/11

> November sweeps began with a baseball bat in its hand, and for one network, that bat was the one wielded by Robert DeNiro in The Untouchables. NBC:  A disaster, although its full extent won’t be known until the Wor...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS January 15

>UPDATED NUMBERS FOR NBC THROUGHOUT.   FOX had the late Divisional playoff game (that goes until about 8 pm) this year and took full advantage of it, successfully previewing new comedy Napoleon Dynamite twice.  N...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: The Sad Downward Slide of World Series Ratings

>Pity the poor Former National Pastime.  In the quarter century that Nielsen has used the PeopleMeter to measure demographic ratings, viewership of the World Series has dropped by more than half in the key advertising...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 1.16-17.2016

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

 
 

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/3/12

> Big Bang makes one. CBS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY roared back from last week’s decline, up half a ratings point for its best number since March, and zooming past American Idol as the highest-rated show of the night.  T...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: WEDNESDAY RATINGS May 2

>American Idol kept FOX on top in the first Wednesday of the May Sweep, despite continued declines from last year.  CBS and ABC trail with fairly respectable nights (CBS down a couple of tenths from last year and ABC up th...
by Mitch Metcalf