NETWORK UPDATE:  The only change from Friday’s preliminary ratings was a 0.1 dip for the 8:30PM rerun of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY on CW. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): ESPN’s NBA BASKETBALL coverage took over the top 2 cable […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  The season premiere of THE GOLDBERGS was at 0.70, down a tenth from last fall’s premiere.  THE WONDER YEARS premiered very compatibly at 0.67.  The live season premiere of THE CONNERS was at 0.65, down from 0.9 for last year’s live premiere.  The season premiere of HOME ECONOMICS was at 0.41, […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  The highest rated shows were out of primetime, FOX’s afternoon MLB PLAYOFFS game at 1.09, and NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, down 0.22 from last week’s Kardashian episode to 0.82.  In primetime, ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game was on top at 0.78.  CW’s WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY and WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS  were at […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from 2 weeks off, STATION 19 gained 0.02 to 0.64, GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.07 to 0.70, and BIG SKY ticked down to 0.34. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON rose 0.03 to 0.69, UNITED STATES OF AL slipped 0.02 to 0.43, GHOSTS lost 0.03 to 0.50, and B POSITIVE was down 0.02 […]

  BROADCAST FINLS ABC:  The PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME was at 0.95. CBS:  SWAT aired a new episode for the first time since November 12, up a tenth to 0.54.  MAGNUM PI, back from an off-week, was down a tick to 0.42, and BLUE BLOODS, ditto, was down 0.07 to 0.39. NBC:  BAKING IT was at […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday April 28-29, 2018.  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, April 29-30, […]

  We’re taking these last days before the broadcast networks’ midseason begins to scrutinize how those still-powerful dinosaurs fared during the fall.  Yesterday we looked at ABC, and today it’s the turn of what was called (although not recently) the Tiffany Network. CBS Fall Primetime 18-49 Average (through December 28):  1.93, down 3.6% from Fall […]