NETWORK FINALS:  There was no real contest in the final numbers for the night’s broadcast COLLEGE FOOTBALL games, with ABC’s game at 3.9 and FOX’s at 0.5.  In addition, the rerun of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: […]

Updated weekly broadcast and cable program rankings.

>A pretty typical week on cable in prime time, with ESPN’s Monday Night Football leading the way (Green Bay Packers thumping the Minnesota Vikings).   On the scripted front, AMC’s Walking Dead is ahead by a mile.  The program’s lead-out, Hell on Wheels, dropped a big four tenths of a rating point, from a 1.9 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.34/0.21/0.21/0.16/0.21. CBS:  A LET’S MAKE A DEAL special was at 0.41, and a THE PRICE IS RIGHT special was at 0.52.  A SWAT rerun followed at 0.29. NBC:  Reruns at 0.32/0.35/0.28. FOX:  MASTERCHEF rose 0.12 to 0.46, and SO YOU THINK  YOU CAN DANCE was up 0.09 to 0.34. […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP dropped 0.11 from Thursday to 0.50.  A 20/20 rerun followed at 0.46. CBS:  BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION fell 0.09 from Wednesday to 0.45, followed by a BLUE BLOODS rerun at 0.24. NBC:  The WINTER OLYMPICS was at 0.97/1.14, down from 2.90 on the parallel night in 2018. FOX:  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for BLACK-ISH, BIG SKY and YOUNG ROCK.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  CNN’s PRESIDENTIAL TOWN HALL led Tuesday cable at 0.53/0.75/3.6M, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.23/0.45/3.5M, and MSNBC’s RACHEL […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As was the case the previous week, the Fri-Sun holiday period is going to be light on non-sports original cable programming.  ESPN’s coverage of the COTTON […]

>Once again football tops the weekly cable ratings chart.  ESPN’s Monday Night Football was in its usual #1 position with a solid 5.6 Adult 18-49 rating, but the big number was turned in by the NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football (a very good 4.1 rating, almost double the performance of the franchise two weeks ago).  […]