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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 7.4-5.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 4 and Sunday July 5, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Cl...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.30.2015

  The WOMENS WORLD CUP semi-final put the marauding animals of ZOO in a kennel. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.26.2015

  Only the WOMENS WORLD CUP livened up a dull night. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Complete Round of 16 Ratings (Updated with ABC)

Ratings are now complete for the Round of 16, the eight matches that start the Knockout Stage, as the Saturday June 28 ratings for ABC have sauntered in.  Two solid matches on that Saturday, ranking #7 and #8 overall (out of 5...
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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Ratings for Final USA Match as Round of 16 Ends

Ratings for Tuesday’s ESPN matches have been added to the table below.  The 3:30 pm telecast of Belgium vs USA averaged 13,440,000 persons 2+, just behind the 13,774,000 for USA vs Portugal on Sunday June 22 at 6 pm, a m...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL — Day 6

Tuesday’s ESPN coverage of the World Cup featured two matches that had average ratings, and a third match (in the tough 11:30 am time period) that is the lowest-rated so far.  (Yesterday’s match are bolded in th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL — Day 5

Wow.  USA vs Ghana on ESPN Monday just missed averaging 10 million viewers over the course of the entire telecast.  This is double what the USA matches did in 2010 from South Africa, and the demographic ratings (almost 6 rati...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Necessary Roughness”

  Professional sports are so central to American culture, and so particularly critical to the television business, that it’s surprising the area had been largely ignored as the locale of a series until USA’s NE...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Covert Affairs”

  Cable’s USA Network has the reputation of being a place where procedurals basically repeat variations on the same episode over and over for years, until the series finally dies of old age.  That’s certainly ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “White Collar”

  WHITE COLLAR lost a little of its charm this season (or half-season, depending on how you characterize USA’s bifurcated order pattern).  The should-FBI-agent-Peter Burke (Tim DeKay)-trust-former-thief-Neal Caffrey...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Necessary Roughness”

  A very busy season of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS came to an end tonight with an unusually far-fetched hour.  The show isn’t exactly known for its hard-hitting realism, but this episode, written by series creators Liz Kru...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Political Animals”

  POLITICAL ANIMALS remained uncompelling to the very end, which is remarkable when you consider that its final episode threw in, among other things, the (apparent) death of the President of the United States.  The show ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 8/12/12

  Status was mostly quo in the Sunday night cable ratings. HBO:  The craziness that is TRUE BLOOD was down just a tick from last week, still overwhelmingly beating the rest of cable with 2.6 (and almost 80% of its viewers...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Common Law”

  A return to COMMON LAW for its season finale didn’t show any appreciable improvement from its unimpressive early episodes.  Standards at USA Network aren’t exactly at the level of Sunday night on HBO, but Co...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 8/5/12

  Any negative ratings effect due to the Olympics seems to have subsided, as the numbers were generally up for cable on Sunday night. HBO:  TRUE BLOOD, of course, was in the lead, with a 2.7 rating that was up slightly fr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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