BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE gained 0.06 to 0.55, followed by a ROAD TO THE CMAS special at 0.17. CBS:  Reruns at 0.37/0.28/0.22/0.23. NBC:  THE VOICE was up 0.03 to 0.64, and QUANTUM LEAP rose 0.07 to 0.40. FOX:  Returning from a rerun week, 9-1-1 slipped 0.02 to 0.67, and THE CLEANING LADY […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The DATELINE rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Not surprisingly, the Independence Day Eve Mount Rushmore address boosted Fox News to the top of Friday cable, with FOX NEWS AT NIGHT at 0.53/0.86/5.4M, and with […]

NETWORK UPDATE:   The NHL FINALS rating adjusted up 0.1 to 1.9 in final numbers, tying last year’s Game 1.  In addition, MASTERCHEF rose 0.1, as did the rerun of SUPERNATURAL. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A busy but not particularly high-rated night was topped by BET’s season premiere of THE GAME at 0.67, with lead-out FRANKIE & NEFFE at […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.40/0.36. CBS:  A holiday rerun at 0.21 was followed by GREATEST @HOME VIDEOS at 0.17 and a rerun at 0.16. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ dropped 0.05 to 0.25, and YOUNG ROCK was steady at 0.26.  DATELINE ticked down to 0.23. FOX;  WWE SMACKDOWN lost 0.05 to 0.52. CW: The […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s PREMIER BOXING lost 0.1 in final numbers, as did the NCIS rerun at 8PM.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports continued to ride high on cable, with TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS game on top at 1.41, and ESPN’s afternoon coverage of the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a news special at 0.31, reruns at 0.21/0.19/0.19. CBS:  Reruns at 0.29/0.26/0.19/0.15. NBC:  Following a news special at 0.21, THE BLACKLIST was at 0.25 compared to last week’s 0.24/0.20.  After that, reruns at 0.20/0.18. FOX:  Reruns at 0.13/0.15/0.18. CW:  After a rerun at 0.06, 100 DAYS TO INDY was at […]

Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Saturday was very slow on cable, with the highest 18-49 rating a 0.37 for BELLA AND THE BULLDOG on Nickelodeon.  Spike’s AUCTION HUNGERS was at 0.31.  LOG CABIN LIVING (HGTV) was at 0.29/0.27, down more than […]

> On virtually any network in America, the discovery that a hugely expensive new series–stocked with the highest-caliber talent, preceded by a multi-million dollar marketing campaign–had been watched in its debut by little more than a million people, and that fewer than half a million of those were younger than 50 years old, would be […]