AFTERNOON UPDATE:  The NCAA FINALS adjusted up to 7.2 in final numbers, but that was still significantly down from last year’s 8.4.  What time zone adjustment giveth it also taketh away, and that BIG BANG THEORY rerun at 8PM looked a lot less impressive when reduced to 2.0, while the game’s PRE-GAME SHOW fell […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday April 15-16, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, April 16-17, […]

  THE CARMICHAEL SHOW made an argument for a regular-season berth. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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). […]

  Did moving The Good Wife and Revenge away from one another for a night help both shows? CBS:  The afternoon NFL overrun pushed the night’s schedule by an entire hour in most of the country, kicking The Mentalist out of primetime.  The effect was interesting, not because of the giant push football gave 60 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 3 and Sunday August 4, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   Golf was back in business this weekend with Tiger Woods running away with the WGC […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA and 9-1-1.  It’s also worth noting that DEBRIS is teetering on the edge of rounding down to 0.3 before long.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast […]

CBS won Tuesday night with finales of two strong procedural dramas, matching last year’s nightly rating with solid scheduling. FOX and NBC came close to their performance on the same night last year, while ABC has utterly crashed Tuesday and is hoping for a major rebuild next year. CBS moved back into first place last […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CHICAGO MED gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  E!’s REVENGE BODY WITH KHLOE KARDASHIAN premiered at 0.30.  The season premiere of USA’s COLONY was at 0.29, down a bit from the mid-0.3 numbers it was doing […]