Updated weekly broadcast and cable program rankings.
Only one show last night topped a 1.5 rating. ABC: An 8PM SHARK TANK only managed a 1.2, but the 9PM season finale zoomed up to a 1.9, easily the highest-rated show of the night (but down a tick from last week). 2d highest: the 1.5 for 20/20, although that was down 0.2 from […]
Talent competition shows continued to dominate network television. NBC: After THE VOICE‘s new Tuesday low 3.0 (down 0.2 from last week), AMERICA’S GOT TALENT premiered with a 3.1 rating from 9-11 pm (3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.0 by half hour). This was its lowest-ever premiere; last year the show debuted with a 3.7 rating, […]
There is, it turns out, an audience for scripted network drama during the summer. CBS: Airing in the dead of network summer, and against what turned out to be the last hour of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, UNDER THE DOME had a huge 3.2 debut in 18-49s and over 13M viewers, numbers that […]
Updated weekly ratings chart for broadcast and cable:
A Presidential Town Hall didn’t change the night. 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 […]
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 […]
Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals). With two preseason NFL games this past week (Friday and Saturday), CBS jumped to the top of the networks in prime time for the week ending Sunday. (Last week, FOX had two games and claimed the […]