> Don’t get too excited about that increase in SMASH‘s 18-49 rating last night, because it just vanished.  In the final Nielsen numbers, Smash came back down to the same 2.3 number it had last week.  (Castle was also lowered a tenth of a point.)   The lower number is nothing to panic about.  The final […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 27 and Sunday December 28, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 17 Sunday 10.8 rating CBS 1:00 pm Regional (mostly SD-KC) 10.5 rating FOX 1:00 […]

  Solid wins for NBC’s CHICAGO block. 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 and […]

> Don’t give up on Fringe just yet. FOX:  Maybe all the fans really were at The Hunger Games last week.  FRINGE had a huge rebound to 1.2 last night, which still put it in 3d place for the hour (this is Fringe, after all), but gave it a welcome tie with the already-renewed Grimm […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The IHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL special gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s coverage of the Michigan vs. Florida State ORANGE BOWL dominated Friday cable at 3.36, and other COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl games included Nebraska vs. Tennessee […]

>CBS led the way Saturday night with a preliminary 5.0 Adults 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm ET.  The end of the Louisville-Kentucky game peaked at a 5.8 rating from 8:00-8:30 pm (though some of that rating contains viewing on the west coast to the thrilling end of the second game).  CBS drifted down to a […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELOR rose a tenth to 0.77.  THE GOOD DOCTOR returned from hiatus at 0.38, down 0.11 from its last airing on November 22. CBS:  The line-up aired for the first time since January 24, with THE NEIGHBORHOOD down 0.11 to 0.61, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA down 0.03 to 0.55, NCIS down […]

> 4.7.  That was last year’s World Series Game 1 rating in 18-49s, which appears to be the lowest Game 1 rating ever in the demo.  As FOX prepares to begin its St. Louis vs. Texas series tonight, that’s the number they’ll have in mind.  (The lowest rated Series as a whole was 4.8 in […]