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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.31.2020

Posted April 1, 2020 by Mitch Salem

        NETWORK FINALS:  The BLACK-ISH rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On another day dominated by news programming, Fox News’s SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRET BAIER was at 0.75/1.17/6.1M, with CNN’s SITUATION ROOM at 0.56/0.81/2.8M, and MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW […]

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Ratings Delays Due to Presidents Day Holiday

Posted February 16, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

The Presidents Day holiday will cause delays for national television ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  As a rule of thumb, national holidays that close banks, stock markets or post offices also impact Nielsen ratings (MLK Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s). After this […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.11.2017

Posted March 15, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

      NOTE:  Nielsen is slowly grinding its way back up to date, and as of late Wednesday morning PT we don’t yet have Saturday network finals, nor do we have any Saturday cable ratings beyond the Top 150 (which means that for now we don’t have the full Adult Swim line-up, among others). […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 8.2.2015

Posted August 4, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:   BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the FAMILY GUY rerun slipped by 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The biggest ratings news of the night was the awful swoon by E!’s I AM CAIT, which lost more than half its premiere rating, down 0.58 to 0.57.  (Lead-in STEWARTS & HAMILTONS behaved likewise, down 0.23 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.6.2017

Posted December 7, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The night’s high-profile premieres were both at the level of “OK.”  Syfy’s HAPPY opened at 0.40, a solid number for that network.  On History, KNIGHTFALL started […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 3.16.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted March 17, 2023 by Mitch Metcalf

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 slipped 0.02 to 0.50, GREY’S ANATOMY was steady at 0.42, and ALASKA DAILY was up 0.02 to 0.23. CBS:  The first primetime broadcast games of the NCAA TOURNAMENT were at 0.80/0.88, compared with last year’s 1.35/0.83. NBC:  Reruns at 0.3/0.28/0.25. FOX:  NEXT LEVEL CHEF edged up 0.02 to 0.37, […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 1.19.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATE #3

Posted January 20, 2022 by Mitch Salem

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS dropped 0.09 to 0.58, THE WONDER YEARS fell a tenth to 0.40, THE CONNERS lost 0.08 to 0.48, and HOME ECONOMICS was down 0.03 to 0.35.  THE CHASE completed the down night by slipping 0.02 to 0.31. CBS:  THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT rose 0.13 to 0.74, THE […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.14.2020

Posted March 17, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  48 HOURS lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD climbed 0.09 to 0.53, with the lead-in hour at 0.33.  (Note that while theatrical movie ratings only hit our chart when networks erroneously list them […]

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