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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.15.2017

Posted August 16, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN, and the reruns of THE FLASH and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW all lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN again led Tuesday cable, down 0.03 from last week to 0.77, […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7.17.2020

Posted July 18, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

  Little effort from the networks. 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 follows the […]

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THE SKED SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/4/12

Posted March 5, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> Maybe ABC should have left “Bitches” in the title. ABC:  GCB (aka Good Christian Bitches, aka Good Christian Belles) had a very unimpressive debut, a 2.2 that was way below Pan Am‘s premiere in the fall.  (In fairness, the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES lead-in to Pan Am was a lot higher than last night’s rating.)  GCB […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.22.2016

Posted October 25, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 1.8, and FOX’s to 0.7, up 0.1 for each of them.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports occupied 9 of the 10 top slots on Saturday cable, with Fox Sports 1’s coverage of […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 11.2-11.8.2020

Posted November 10, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday November 2 through Sunday November 8, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

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SKEDBALL: World Series Game 1

Posted October 28, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

World Series Game 1 on FOX (New York Mets at Kansas City Royals 10.27.2015) averaged a 4.6 adult 18-49 rating and 15.3 million viewers 2+ in the fast nationals for the prime time portion of the game.  Of course, last night’s game went well beyond 11 pm ET: a 14 inning affair that lasted over […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.3.2019

Posted June 4, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  Game 4 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS adjusted to 1.5, down 0.1 from last year’s Game 4.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast was at 0.82/0.79/0.73, compared to last week’s 0.76/0.73/0.67, with a RADKES “sneak peek” afterward at […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Friday Cable Originals: 9.19.2014

Posted September 22, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

  FRIDAY NETWORK UPDATE:  20/20 gained 0.1 in final numbers, but UTOPIA remained at its dismal 0.5. Ratings for Friday’s Top 25 original cable telecasts in key demos (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): As it usually does, WWE on Syfy took Friday night, down 0.04 from last week to 0.77, and perhaps not surprisingly, it’s […]

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