Posts Tagged ‘TV ratings’
 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 8.8-9.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 8 and Sunday August 9, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: OFFICIAL NATIONAL RATINGS January 14-15

>The official ratings are in for Saturday and Sunday.  Key updates: FOX Sunday.  The NFL coverage of the end of the New York Giants-Green Bay Packers playoff game and postgame analysis went up to a 15.8 rating with Ad...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/5/13

Smash = Moose Murders. NBC:  Despite enormous, and well-publicized, behind the scenes changes, and weeks of intensive, expensive marketing, NBC couldn’t convince viewers to give SMASH another chance, and the Season 2 pre...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/27/13

  For viewers not watching sports or zombies last night–however few of them there were–TV offered a gangbusters episode of The Good Wife and a superb hour from Masters of Sex (although the less said about Homeland,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARDj j- 11/21/11

> Don’t get too attached to those CG dinosaurs. FOX:  TERRA NOVA barely bothers with those creatures these days anyway, being more concerned with dull conspiracies among humans (points to anyone who can figure out wh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/30/11

> People will watch anything over an episode of CHUCK. NBC:  Facing nothing but repeats, a new Chuck could do no better than 4th place in its hour with a sad 0.8.  The GRIMM repeat did half the rating of the CSI MIAMI...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: TUESDAY RATINGS April 17

>Last night every network was down from last week despite only one network (CBS) airing mostly repeats.  It’s a battle of mediocrity on Tuesday nights, with only half a rating point separating first place (2.4) from ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: TUESDAY RATINGS December 27

>An incredibly quiet final Tuesday of 2011 last night on the broadcast networks, with CBS’s 1.4 rating leading the pack.  Last year on this night, NBC had an incredible performance from a rescheduled Sunday Night Foo...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS April 16

> NBC slid to a 3.0 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-11 pm, still #1 for the night but the night is eroding steadily.  Pending updates in the official nationals, Two and a Half Men will be the #1 show last night with a 3.7 ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/1/13

  So much for superpowers. ABC:  AGENTS OF SHIELD took one of the ugliest Week 2 dives in recent memory, plummeting a horrific 1.6 from last week’s premiere to a very mortal 3.1 rating.  That pulled the rug out from un...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/31/13

  It’s never good news for the networks when the calendar brings typically low-rated Halloween–lots of parents and others with other plans–into November sweeps. ABC:  By 8PM most kiddies were back from t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: March Madness Ratings through Championship

Updated ratings for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament through Championship Monday of March Madness. One game has been added to the CBS average. CBS averaged almost 8.4 million viewers 2+ for its 24 games this year, ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: Happy SMASHday!

> As we know from the final ratings, last night went as well for NBC as it possibly could have, with the Giants/Patriot Super Bowl (yay, Giants!) becoming the most watched broadcast in television history, boasting an audience o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Thursday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10./27/11

> November sweeps began with a baseball bat in its hand, and for one network, that bat was the one wielded by Robert DeNiro in The Untouchables. NBC:  A disaster, although its full extent won’t be known until the Wor...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY CABLE SCORECARD – 10/14/12

  Zombies take over the world. AMC:  As yesterday’s numbers had promised, THE WALKING DEAD was a monster in more ways than one.  With a 5.8 18-49 rating in its 9PM airing and an additional 1.9 for the 10PM rebroadc...
by Mitch Salem