Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday August 5-6, 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, August 6-7, […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s US OPEN coverage held at 0.4 in final numbers.  Elsewhere, the NCIS: LA and MASTERS OF ILLUSION reruns each lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE led Friday cable, down 0.02 to 0.64, with lead-out HOMESTEAD […]

Thursday ratings last night, last year and last week.  CBS and ABC ratings subject to significant change (up to 0.4 rating point) due to pre-emptions in New York (WCBS) and Boston (WCVB ABC) for the Jets-Patriots game aired nationally on NFL Network.  A tough night for The X Factor (up only one tenth from yesterday’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BLACK-ISH and THE GIFTED gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the NCIS: NEW ORLEANS rerun lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Because of the live primetime presidential address, it was a big night for news, led by Fox […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  On another holiday night of reruns, the results for each network were as follows:  ABC 0.19-0.34, CBS 0.67/0.29 (THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT was easily the night’s highest-rated show), NBC 0.26-0.29, FOX 0.24, CW 0.05-0.10.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Once again, ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CBS’s NCAA TOURNAMENT Final Four games adjusted to 1.77/3.66 (the latter for the UCLA/Gonzaga game).  ABC’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS run adjusted to 0.47, down modestly from 2020’s 0.6.  In addition, the rerun of LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME adjusted down to the next-lowest tenth.          Broadcast […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  HAWAII 5-0 gained 0.1 in final numbers. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): 12 MONKEYS got off to an OK 0.43 start for Syfy.  Perhaps understandably for a show based on a 20-year old movie, it skewed quite old, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE BIG BANG THEORY only gained back 0.1 of the giant 0.8 it had tumbled this morning, while THE MILLERS lost the corresponding 0.1.  All of ABC’s shows went up, GREY’S ANATOMY by 0.2 and BLACK BOX (and the 8PM GREY’S rerun) by 0.1.  THURSDAY CABLE:  As expected, the NFL DRAFT dominated […]