NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, adjustments were extreme due to the local preemptions for news coverage.  ABC’s LAST DANCE fell 0.2/0.3 in final numbers, CBS was down 0.2/0.2/0.2, NBC’s airing of DESPICABLE ME dropped 0.2 and the network added a news special at 0.2 in the 10PM hour, and FOX’s reruns were […]

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. THE GOLDBERGS:  Tuesday 9PM on ABC – Change the Channel THE GOLDBERGS is startlingly bad.  ABC’s most highly-touted new sitcom of the fall is inspired by series creator Adam F. Goldberg’s memories of growing up in the 1980s, and fragments of his own home videotapes at the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  HAWAII 5-0 and HELL’S KITCHEN gained 0.1 in final numbers, but THE EXORCIST lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The MLB PLAYOFFS were once again at the top of cable, with TBS’s pair of games at 0.94/0.88, MLB […]

  NEW FEATURE: a Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings chart which includes final Total Viewers for each show.  We have a limited ability to make revisions to the format (a side-by-side comparison of morning and afternoon ratings isn’t doable, for example), but would appreciate any thoughts and comments. FOX’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted down 0.2 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, there were several football-related adjustments in final numbers. SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL itself adjusted to 6.0, up 1.1 from last week’s game.  On CBS, 60 MINUTES fell 0.02 to 3.0, and on FOX, BOB’S BURGERS dropped 0.02 to 1.4, and THE SIMPSONS was down 0.1 to 1.5.     […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. College Basketball Saturday 0.68 rating CBS 1:00 pm Florida at LSU 0.39 rating FOX 12:00 pm […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of BACHELOR IN PARADISE gained 0.05 to 0.55, and THE ROOKIE: FEDS was up 0.02 to 0.23. CBS:  FBI climbed 0.03 to 0.53, FBI: INTERNATIONAL rose 0.03 to 0.41, and FBI: MOST WANTED was up 0.02 to 0.37. NBC:  THE VOICE dipped 0.05 to 0.62, and NEW AMSTERDAM […]

We all know that voters in around a dozen battleground states really decide the Presidential election (and more precisely, voters in a handful of very competitive counties in those states really decide who wins).  According to the very good analysis by Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com, President Obama has a comfortable lead in 16 states and the […]