NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Monday ratings.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The MTV MOVIE & TV AWARDS was simulcast across the Viacom spectrum, with ratings of 0.21 on MTV (down an ugly 0.26 from 2018), 0.20 on […]

> This season there are 289.7 million viewers living in 114.7 million TV households in the United States, as estimated by Nielsen.  If you believe these yearly estimates (and you must if you want to trust the ratings each morning), there are five million fewer people living in one million fewer homes than there were […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 gained 0.03 to 0.42, and a 2-hour GREY’S ANATOMY was down 0.03 to 0.38. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, YOUNG SHELDON fell 0.11 to 0.47, GHOSTS dropped 0.08 to 0.47, SO HELP ME TODD climbed 0.03 to 0.34, and CSI: VEGAS ticked up to 0.29. NBC:  Reruns at […]

>The cable landscape this week was dominated by MTV, a network that has gone through many incarnations and ups and downs over the past few decades.  Now it is going through a red-hot period.  The top four cable programs this week could be found on MTV, led by the simply terrific performance of the Video […]

        NETWORK FINALS :  ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD dipped 0.08 from last week’s midseason premiere to 0.92, TALKING DEAD jumped 0.18 to 0.32 (last week it didn’t air directly after WALKING DEAD), […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and the rerun of THE MIDDLE gained 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, and as expected, CW’s line-up of a rerun THE FLASH and a new IZOMBIE had a 0.2 drop after the network’s NY preemption was calculated out.  This changed IZOMBIE from being up 0.1 […]

>It’s been a good week for the sport of football (except if you happen to work at Penn State).  The Sunday Night Football game on NBC averaged an 8.8 rating with Adults 18-49, the Saturday night college football game on CBS (#1 vs #2 teams) scored a 7.2 rating, and the ESPN Monday Night Football […]

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