NBC changed format a bit Sunday night and aired Michael Phelps: America’s Golden Champion from 7-8 pm, followed by traditional Olympic coverage from 8 pm-midnight, including the men’s 100M dash, gymnastics individual apparatus finals, and beach volleyball.  The night started slowly, as it usually does, with a 5.5 Adult 18-49 rating in the 7:00 half hour, building […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 10.5.  In addition, BOB’S BURGERS adjusted to 2.1 and BLESS THE HARTS to 1.0.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO’s THE OUTSIDER premiered at an OK 0.18/0.15.  By comparison, WATCHMEN launched at 0.25. Starz’s […]

NBC of course won last night handily with the first NFL game of the season.  Usually scheduled on the Thursday after Labor Day, the NFL moved the game to Wednesday out of deference to President Obama who gives his acceptance speech in Charlotte tomorrow night.  Last night’s game (Dallas upsetting the Super Bowl champion New […]

The first Friday of the new season was down 17% in the fast nationals from last year (4.9 rating with Adults 18-49 TOTAL for the four broadcast network versus 5.9 the same night in 2011). CBS and ABC tied for first place last night, each with all of a 1.3 rating from 8-11 pm.  CBS […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 3-4, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K 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, September […]

Another new show could be headed for the exits. ABC:  666 PARK AVENUE continued to fall, down another 0.2 to 1.5, and only a deal with the devil is likely to save it.  Worse for ABC, though, might have been the 3.0 for ONCE UPON A TIME, down 0.4 from last week, and looking like […]

World Series Game 2 is losing to the CBS Thursday lineup in the fast nationals (2.9 to 3.2 with Adults 18-49), but the game should rise to about a 3.3 in the official nationals when the Western live viewing is tabulated correctly.  This assumes a fast-to-official nationals increase of about 14%, similar to Game 1’s […]

NBC grouts another night with its filling of choice. NBC:  So, yes–shoving THE VOICE into just about any timeslot on the schedule will lift both that slot and whatever follows it.  But last night’s special episode pulled a 3.0, one of its lowest rated episodes ever, and 2 full points below CBS at 8PM, and […]