The last night for a while that won’t be owned by NBC. 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 […]

  A solid night for the long-running hits. 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 […]

  We’ve had a second week of ratings to examine, and it’s time once again to ask:  How goes the war?  And what do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? ANYTHING OVER 1.5 IS THE NEW 2.5.  NBC and FOX have given back orders to a total of 5 shows (REVOLUTION, […]

  MONDAY UPDATE:  There were several 0.1 adjustments, a couple of which are worth noting.  HANNIBAL’s increase was reduced by half when it lost 0.1 from early numbers, and HART OF DIXIE didn’t go up at all when the adjustment was factored in.  LAST MAN STANDING, THE NEIGHBORS, DATELINE and 20/20 all bumped up 0.1 […]

The numbers weren’t worth waiting for. NBC:  The only show on network television last night to score over a 2 in the 18-49 demo was AMERICA’S GOT TALENT, airing its pre-Olympics finale and earning a 2.2.  The night began with a CLIOS:  BEST COMMERCIALS special that came in 3d place for its hour with 1.2, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.43/0.41/0.35. CBS:  Reruns at 0.26/0.26/0.21/0.18. NBC:  US OPEN coverage at 0.37. FOX:  Reruns at 0.15/0.16/0.16. CW:  Reruns at 0.04/0.05. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF VIP gained 0.02 to 0.21, BETTY EN NY was steady at 0.13, and SECRETOS DE SANGRE ticked down to 0.12. UNIVISION:  A CONCACAF match at 0.81.   […]

  On Christmas Eve, all the gifts under the broadcast networks’ tree were used. ABC:  The original animated HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, followed by the sad Jim Carrey/Ron Howard live-action version, scored 1.2/1.3 to take the night, although both were down from last year when–preceded by NBA Basketball–they were at 1.8/1.7.  The cartoon was […]

There was plenty of original programming available on Thursday, but viewers wanted only one familiar friend. CBS:  Back-to-back reruns of THE BIG BANG THEORY were the highest rated shows of the night, with 2.1 and 2.4 ratings–nothing else on the networks even got close to a 2.  Even though the PERSON OF INTEREST and MENTALIST […]