NETWORK UPDATE:  EMPIRE was the only Wednesday show to grow from morning numbers, with an additional 0.1 that put its rating at an even more amazing 5.8.  Is there any doubt it’ll hit a 6 by its season finale in 2 weeks? Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, with a boost from the 1.15/2.18 NBA PLAYOFFS games that preceded it, rose 0.18 to 0.66.  A 3-hour AMERICAN IDOL was up 0.04 to 0.68. CBS:  60 MINUTES dropped 0.11 to 0.44, THE EQUALIZER dipped 0.03 to 0.40, EAST NEW YORK held at 0.28, and NCIS: LA […]

Full demo numbers for Sunday’s premiere of  Aaron Sorkin’s opus THE NEWSROOM on HBO won’t be available until tomorrow, but we do know that the initial 9PM telecast was watched by 2.1 million people (with an extra 600,000 watching late-night repeat airings).  As usual with mid-level ratings, they can be cut several ways. The good:  […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.83/0.73.  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW dipped 0.03 to 0.48.  On Discovery, a special episode of GOLD RUSH was at 0.44. leading in […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 6.3 in final numbers, down 0.7 from last week’s final (which was down 1.4 from the final before that).  There was no change to the 3.5 for the AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS, and no adjustments anywhere else. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  As expected, after adjustment for football preemption, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND and JANE THE VIRGIN each lost 0.1 in final numbers, putting them where they were last week.  In addition, THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.2.  (LIFE IN PIECES remained steady with the morning numbers.) Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  SUPER BOWL 50 adjusted to 37.7 in final numbers, a gigantic number but not the equal of last year’s 39.1.  LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT ended up at 7.7 for a show that began at 10:54PM ET and ended at 12:02AM.  That compared to last year’s 8.4 for the post-Super Bowl […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS: NEW ORLEANS gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the reruns of THE ROOKIE and SUPERGIRL lost the same (the latter rounded down to 0.0).          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN may have seen its schedule eradicated of virtually all […]