BROADCAST FINALS:  NBC seems to be burning off TRANSPLANT on Saturdays, where it started at 0.12.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.33.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NHL PLAYOFFS game was at 0.62, and it had a FORMULA 1 race at 0.26 and COLLEGE SOFTBALL at 0.23/0.18/0.16.  TUDN’s […]

  Last night’s premiere telecast of KING & MAXWELL gave TNT a decent 0.6-0.7 rating in the 18-49 demo and 3.5M total viewers, an old-skewing result (only around one-quarter of total viewers were under 50) that’s consistent with its lead-in MAJOR CRIMES, albeit losing about 30% of that show’s numbers.  If King can hold there, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICAN IDOL gained 0.1 in final numbers, pushing it into a tie with SURVIVOR.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.84/0.60.  On Bravo, REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY rose 0.12 to 0.61, and REAL HOUSEWIVES OF […]

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): NOTE:  Due to Nielsen’s sometimes arcane coding of special programming, the chart below will need to be revised, as several of TNT’s NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND shows, which were actually among the top-rated telecasts of the […]

        NETWORK UPDATE:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday network ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.71/0.38, compared to last week’s 0.71/0.40.  A&E’s LIVE PD gained 0.04 to 0.57.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.40/0.40.  On […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted in yesterday’s Network Scorecard text, the GOLDEN GLOBES adjusted to 5.0 in final numbers.  In addition, after football adjustments, THE SIMPSONS fell 0.6 to 2.8, and GHOSTED was down 0.2 to 1.6.  Elsewhere, the 9PM SHARK TANK rose 0.1 to 1.4.         Broadcast […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The WINTER OLYMPICS Closing Ceremony got a big 0.6 bump in final numbers, while the preceding OLYMPIC GOLD special lost 0.3 and the AP BIO preview gained the same.  In addition, due to a NASCAR overrun, only a few minutes of the BROOKLYN NINE-NINE rerun ran across the country. […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SWAT lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.49/0.33.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY ticked up to 0.46.  TNT’s ALL ELITE WRESTLING ticked down to 0.34.  Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT […]