BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.46, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD dropped 0.05 to 0.52, THE $100,000 PYRAMID ticked up to 0.45, and THE FINAL STRAW was up a tick to 0.30. CBS:  BIG BROTHER fell 0.12 to 0.79.  The remaining line-up had reruns at 0.35/0.23/0.20. NBC:  After GYMNASTICS at […]

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Saturday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): COLLEGE FOOTBALL on ESPN dominated SATURDAY CABLE, taking up all of the top 6 slots for the day and a few more lower down, starting with COLLEGE GAMEDAY at 9AM Eastern Time.  After Nickelodeon’s […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  MISTRESSES and the rerun THE BIG BANG THEORY both went up 0.1 from this morning’s numbers. MONDAY CABLE:  ESPN’s coverage of the All-Star HOME RUN DERBY took the night at 2.1–even the rain delay scored 1.4.  The top-rated regular programming, as usual on Mondays, was VH1’s LOVE & HIP-HOP ATLANTA, down 0.1 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC’s NBA FINALS game adjusted up to 7.6 in final numbers, and correspondingly the lead-in JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE shrank to 1.4.  Elsewhere, the BONES season finale gained 0.1, as did all the CBS sitcom reruns. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Syfy’s WWE coverage took the cable night with 0.73, up 0.14 from last week.  That didn’t help the […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Apart from 0.1 drops for the reruns of MARRY ME and GOTHAM, there were no changes to Friday’s preliminary ratings. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Friday night cable belonged to Discovery’s GOLD RUSH, with a dominating 1.18.  In […]

  Declines and disappointments. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the […]

  AMC:  If a 6% decline to 4.9 (plus 1.7 for the 10PM rebroadcast) can be considered an “off” week, then THE WALKING DEAD was off this Sunday.  That 6.6 total will still be second only to Sunday Night Football in all of television for the week, although football’s lead is more lopsided this week, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s numbers, and that includes the WINTER OLYMPICS, which did not adjust up from prelims.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports dominated Tuesday cable, with TNT’s NBA doubleheader in the #1/#5 slots at 1.16 […]