In the rapidly evolving broadcasting landscape, priorities for any broadcaster – network, cable, digital, syndication or public television – should be the caliber of the programming and viewer experience. The quality of the content and how this content maximizes the opportunity for the advertiser while not compromising the experience for the viewer, is always the […]
September 2016
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CBS and NBC Share Leadership on Second Tuesday of New TV Season
by Marc Berman Comments are off
What follows are the fast affiliate results for Tuesday, September 27 broken out by network and by each half-hour. -Total Viewers: CBS: 13.13 million, NBC: 10.85, ABC: 6.35, Fox: 1.99, CW: 707,000 -Adults 18-49: NBC: 3.0 rating/11 share, CBS: 1.8/ 6, ABC: 1.2/ 4, Fox: 0.9/ 3, CW: 0.2/ 1 ———- -Winners: NCIS (CBS), The […]
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Clean Overnight Sweep for CBS Tuesday; NBC the Net to Beat in the Key Demos
by Marc Berman Comments are off
[socialpoll id=”2390396″] WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 Note: The following ratings do not include the Philadelphia and Boston markets. Household Rating/Share CBS: 8.3 rating/14 share, NBC: 7.2/12, ABC: 4.5/ 7, Fox: 1.4/ 2, CW: 0.5/ 1 -Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening: ABC: +32, CBS: + 1, NBC: no change, CW: -17, Fox: -56 —– -Winners: […]
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The 2016 Major League Baseball regular season is about complete and the results are already in: the Kansas City Royals are the league’s local ratings champion in the nation once again. In a comprehensive ratings report by Maury Brown of Forbes magazine, the defending 2015 world champion Royals averaged a 11.7 rating (105,000 households) on […]
Tagged with: Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, MLB, St. Louis Cardinals
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Fox’s fall line-up needs a serious overhaul
by Marc Berman Comments are off
From Campaign US: One week into the new television season and it’s clear that Fox is in for a long and grueling one. For the first time in fifteen years, Fox won’t have “American Idol” to give it a ratings boost in January, and it looks like the troubled network will need it. It finished […]
Tagged with: American Idol, Empire, Fox, Lethal Weapon
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Amazon Orders Three New Series, Including Revival of ‘The Tick’
by Marc Berman Comments are off
Half-hour satire “The Tick,” which originally aired on Fox in 2001-02 and is based on the comic book series of the same name, is being resurrected on Amazon. In this new version, an underdog accountant with no superpowers at all (Griffin Newman) realizes his city is owned by a global super-villain long-thought dead. As he […]
Tagged with: Amazon, I Love Dick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, The Tick
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FX Renews ‘The Strain’ for a Fourth – and Final – Season
by Marc Berman Comments are off
FX has picked-up vampire drama “The Strain” for a fourth season. But this fourth season will ultimately be the final season. “We sincerely thank Carlton Cuse, Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan and their creative team as well as the fantastic cast for three exciting seasons of “The Strain,” FX president of original programming Nick Grad […]
Tagged with: Carlton Cuse, Chuck Hogan, FX, Guillermo del Toro, The Strain
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NBC Issues Full Season Order to ‘This Is Us’
by Marc Berman Comments are off
Just two episodes in and optimistic NBC has granted freshman drama “This Is Us” a full season episode order. But full season, in this case, is an additional five episodes taking it to 18 in this first season. Debuting in the Tuesday 10 p.m. hour on Sept. 27 out of two-hours of “The Voice,” “This […]
Tagged with: Blindspot, Chicago Fire, NBC, Parenthood, This Is Us
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‘Criminal Minds’ and ‘Code Black’ Open New Seasons on CBS
by Marc Berman Comments are off
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 ABC 8:00 p.m. “The Goldbergs” 8:30 p.m. “Speechless” 9:00 p.m. “Modern Family” 9:30 p.m. “blackish” 10:00 p.m. “Designated Survivor” CBS 8:00 p.m. “Survivor” 9:00 p.m. “Criminal Minds” (season premiere) 10:00 p.m. “Code Black” (season premiere) NBC 8:00 p.m. “Blindspot” 9:00 p.m. “Law & Order: SVU” 10:00 p.m. “Chicago PD” Fox 8:00 […]
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Monday Final Nationals: Clinton-Trump Showdown Sets All-Time Presidential Debate Viewership Record
by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
Opposite Debate, ‘Monday Night Football’ Sinks to Record Low On the truncated Monday prime time (due to the debate), NBC was the Monday victor among total viewers (11.99 million), adults 18-49 (3.4 rating/10 share) and adults 25-54 (4.2/11). Across 12 networks, 83.8 million viewers tuned in to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in their first […]