NETWORK UPDATE:  The 8PM rerun of NEW GIRL and the FLASH rerun each lost 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart       NOTE:  We don’t currently have any data for cable shows that placed below the Top 150.  We’ll update this afternoon if we’re able to obtain […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  The changes from Monday’s overnights were all at NBC, which had the MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL simulcast boosting its preliminary numbers.  The new episode of SUPERSTORE lost 0.1 to 0.8, and TELENOVELA was down 0.2 to 0.6.  Both will need to show more signs of life in their official “premieres” next week.  […]

  On another torpid holiday night, only one rerun made it past a 1.0 rating. 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 […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.8, down 0.3 from last week’s game.  Elsewhere, the only other adjustment was a 0.1 drop for the rerun of THE SIMPSONS. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA dominated Sunday cable at 1.43, up 0.07 from last […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  After adjustment for CBS’s local simulcasts of SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, its numbers went way down from early ratings, by 0.4 to 0.5 for its HAWAII 5-0 rerun and by half a point to 0.6 for 48 HOURS.  In addition, the reruns on FOX of BONES and SLEEPY HOLLOW each dropped 0.1.  […]

  And after 9 hours of delay, we have… ratings!  Which look pretty much as expected, despite the new Nielsen methodology.  Of course, with a night of reruns and faded specials on almost every network, it’s not clear if we’d recognize a change even if one was there.  Next week will be much more telling. DEMOGRAPHIC […]

UPDATE at 3:40 pm PT: Fast nationals for Monday 12.28.2015 scheduled for release at 5:00 pm PT (8:00 pm ET), an unusually late hour for a data release. But this has been a most unusual day. UPDATE at 2:25 pm PT: Next update at 3:30 pm PT.  Around that time, Nielsen will either announce a data […]

      NETWORK UPDATE:  Both CW reruns, the IHEARTRADIO JINGLE BALL and WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY, lost 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  There wasn’t much original programming on Christmas night to hang on the tree.  Once again, our Top 150 chart reaches all the […]