ABC generated its most watched Sunday (8.2 million) with series programming in 5-1/2 years – since 9/30/12. In its 8-10pm debut opposite stiff competition from Fox’s OJ Simpson Interview and AMC’s The Walking Dead, ABC’s American Idol premiered with the Network’s biggest series audience in time period (10.5 million) in 4 years and top Adult […]
What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s top original cable telecasts on Saturday, November 18 (with the night’s cable ranks according to total viewers and adults 18-49 in parentheses): Live PD Xtra (A&E, 8:00 PM, 6 min.) – 1.088 million viewers (#24) – 0.29 A18-49 (#22) Live PD (A&E, […]
Further proof that Saturday night is the least desirable evening of television is that NBC led this one on Aug. 12 among total viewers with an average of just 2.34 million. But three cable networks were able to experience some Saturday positives. A&E was tops on all of television among adults 18-49 (approx. 0.56 rating) […]
NBC led a scarcely-sampled Saturday night in total viewers (3.24 million) and adults 25-54 (0.7 rating/3 share). Two cable networks led all of television in other key demos from 8-11 p.m.: A&E among adults 18-49 (approx. 0.52 rating), thanks to “Live PD” and Adult Swim was in a virtue tie with A&E for No. 1 […]
It was another scarcely-sampled summer Saturday night on television overall, with NBC on top in total viewers (2.77 million). A&E continues to benefit from “Live PD” — the cable network led all of television among adults 18-49 (approx. 0.52 rating), adults 18-34 (approx. 0.35 rating), and adults 25-54 (approx. 0.72 rating) from 8-11 p.m. The […]
ABC dominated Saturday prime time with “Saturday Night Football” which featured a matchup of two teams from the Associated Press top-5, No. 3 Louisville at No. 5 Clemson with Clemson prevailing 42-36 in a thriller. The game’s opposing quarterbacks are contenders for this year’s Heisman Trophy: Louisville’s Lamar Jackson and Clemson’s Deshaun Watson. Louisville-Clemson ranks […]
NBC was Saturday prime time’s No. 1 network in all key measures like total viewers (3.14 million) and adults 18-49 (0.5 rating/2 share). Stuntman Luke Aikins successfully attempted a 25,000-ft. skydive from an airplane without a parachute on the special “Heaven Sent” but its ratings did not take high flight for Fox — it was […]
NBC edged by Fox to be Saturday night’s most-watched network with an average of 4.094 million viewers in prime time (vs. 4.085 million for Fox). Fox was tops among adults 18-49 (0.9 rating/3 share) and adults 25-54 (1.3/4). Despite being delayed by rain, “NASCAR Sprint Cup: Duck Commander 500” from Texas bested the combined viewership […]
Saturday night belonged to TBS with coverage of the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Final Four”. In conjunction with “Team Stream” telecasts of each game on TNT and truTV, both college basketball games averaged 11.7 million viewers across the three Turner networks. But the news was far from positive when comparing the games to previous […]
