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 over the age of 2). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]

  A lackluster night for just about everyone. 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 over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Game 3 of the NBA FINALS was at 3.65, consistent with the previous games. CBS:  LET’S MAKE A DEAL dropped 0.07 to 0.34, followed by reruns at 0.43/0.26. NBC:  Reruns at 0.29/0.26/0.30. FOX:  MASTERCHEF slipped 0.02 to 0.44, and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE was down 0.07 to 0.27. CW:  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS were on top again, at 1.43/1.42.  Tru was ahead of the rest with IMPRACTICAL JOKERS, up 0.07 to 0.50, and lead-out INSIDE JOKES […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was a 0.2 boost for the AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS rerun in final numbers, and an 0.1 increase for the rerun of YES, VIRGINIA. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was by far the highest […]

  The addition of MAN WITH A PLAN didn’t help CBS. 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 over the age of 2). Ratings […]

> NYC 22 goes down with the ship. CBS:  It was almost a full year ago that CBS announced the arrival of NYC 22 (which has changed titles since then), and after all that time… nobody cared.  The show debuted to a terrible 1.5, unable even to hold its mediocre 1.8 lead-in from THE GOOD WIFE […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  As usual on fall Saturdays, COLLEGE FOOTBALL was dominant with 1.16 for ABC’s primetime game, while FOX’s MLB game was at 0.25.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL again, with ESPN’s games at 0.85/0.52/0.43, Fox Sports 1’s at 0.42/0.16/0.15, Big Ten’s gamex at 0.26/0.12, and […]