The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 28 and Sunday November 29, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL and college football weekend or the same calendar weekend […]

  The strategy of reducing AMERICAN IDOL to one night a week isn’t working out as planned. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BRING THE FUNNY and MYSTERIES DECODED each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN led Tuesday cable, up a tick to 0.63, with lead-out STRAIGHT UP STEVE AUSTIN at 0.32.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF […]

>CBS wins the night by a mile and premieres a new comedy successfully.  NBC’s comedy shuffling goes unnoticed, and The Firm further erodes the 10 pm hour.              Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating Thursday     CBS    ABC    FOX    NBC    CW01.12.2012   3.5    2.8    2.1 […]

Monday preliminary broadcast ratings:

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE GOLDBERGS gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did the entire NBC rerun line-up:  2 episodes of SVU and a CHICAGO PD capper.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart         CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Tru enjoyed its NCAA TOURNAMENT play-in game glory with Wednesday’s top-rated […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday December 16-17, 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, December 17-18, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE GRAMMY AWARDS lost half a point after timezone adjustment, ending up with an 8.3 rating, well below last year’s final 9.9.  In addition, NBC’s run of THE HUNGER GAMES gained 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): THE […]