>Remember that the fast nationals for The CW Thursday schedule will be vastly inflated by local coverage of NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football. Because of football pre-emptions in New York and Denver (on WPIX and KWGN), The CW has pulled original episodes of The Vampire Diaries and Secret Circle and replaced them with a movie […]

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). ###

NBC crashed back into fourth place, after last week’s dream-like two-hour Voice episode.  This week the regular schedule came back with one change — the return of Whitney in place of the dismal Animal Practice (ratings are still almost as bad at 8 pm and see Mitch Salem’s review here).  Chicago Fire also came crashing back to reality — last […]

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 FINALS ABC:  After a news special at 0.38 and a rerun at 0.28, 20/20 was steady at 0.23. CBS:  A news special at 0.21 was followed by GREATEST @HOME VIDEOS at 0.21 and reruns at 0.11/0.12. NBC:  A rerun at 0.17 was followed by DATELINE at 0.29. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN jumped 0.21 to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The STANLEY CUP FINALS game adjusted up to 1.7 in final numbers.  The only other change was a 0.1 drop for the ODD COUPLE rerun.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports led on Thursday cable as well, as Univision’s Mexico […]

  A small uptick for CBS. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

> FRINGE needs another timeline. FOX: FRINGE fell back to a 1.0, which looks even worse because Grimm was up this week, making last week’s tie a dim memory. Still, these aren’t very different from the numbers that got the show renewed last season, so it’s not dead yet. THE FINDER, on the other hand, […]