The ShowBuzzDaily AUDIENCE MAP returns with a look at Late Night programs on the broadcast networks. This new format goes beyond the 30 gender-age demographic segments to include ratings performance in key segments of household income and the education level attained by the head of household. And the income and education ratings are not just […]

Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings:

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s primetime NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 9.93, while as expected the adjusted rating for GREAT NORTH was down half a point.  In addition, THE ROOKIE and 60 MINUTES adjusted to the next tenth.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The […]

  2016 was a different ratings world from 2020, and that was reflected in the preliminary ratings for the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, which were at a preliminary 0.2-0.3, compared to 0.5-1.0 4 years ago.  (On that same night in 2016, THE BACHELORETTE was at 1.9 and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR was at 1.6, which would be […]

  Remember this morning when we were remarking on the confusing NBC promos last night that made it sound like GRIMM wouldn’t be airing again on Mondays, when it was scheduled for another Monday broadcast next week?  Well, it turns out those promos weren’t so much wrong as premature:  today the network announced that Grimm […]

  LAST COMIC STANDING wasn’t quite as funny this week. 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 […]

Playoff football was huge but down. 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 follows the chart. NBC:  […]

    It seems that no amount of violence in GAME OF THRONES will make anyone change the channel.   HBO:  GAME OF THRONES continued its ratings ascension with a gripping episode that could have been called A Tale of Two Beheadings (not to mention some guttings, throat-slittings, a dismemberment, a massacre, and a side […]