NETWORK FINALS: CBS’s NCAA TOURNAMENT coverage adjusted to 1.9. Elsewhere,DATELINE lost 0.2 in final numbers, and the SUPERSTORE and DECEPTION reruns were down 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Cable’s NCAA TOURNAMENT coverage again blanketed most of Saturday’s Top 8, led by […]
>Last night, NBC won the night, as usual, with Sunday Night Football. NBC is averaging about a 7.1 Adult 18-49 Sunday from 7:30-11:00 (remember the 7:00 half hour does not air national commercials and is not rated) and the number will probably rise to a 7.8 in the official nationals, well above the 6.2 official […]
Two ABC sitcoms aired without their usual lead-ins, with mixed results. ABC: The season finale of SUBURGATORY had to be a self-starter last night, airing as a one-hour without either Modern Family or The Middle as a lead-in. The 8PM half-hour had a 1.5 that was down half a point from recent Middle ratings. But the show recovered […]
More bad news than good. 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 […]
Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 19 through Sunday October 25, 2020. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]
BROADCAST FINALS: On another holiday night of reruns, the results for each network were as follows: ABC 0.19-0.34, CBS 0.67/0.29 (THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT was easily the night’s highest-rated show), NBC 0.26-0.29, FOX 0.24, CW 0.05-0.10. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Once again, ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl […]
THE WEEK. For the recently completed week ending Sunday (February 4-10, 2013), CBS won again with a preliminary 3.35 adult 18-49 rating for the week. This week’s win is driven by last night’s Grammy Awards (preliminary 10.3 demo rating, a stunning drop from last year’s 14.1 Grammy Awards). In fact, last year CBS won Grammy week with […]
It was a slooooooooow Sunday on network TV. CBS: BIG BROTHER claimed the highest number of the night on any network, but its 1.8 was down a discouraging 0.7 from last week. UNFORGETTABLE hit a new low 1.0, down 0.1. NBC: On its last Sunday before the return of regular-season football, the network could […]