Super Bowl LV marked the ninth consecutive year the Big Game has declined among the key adults 18-49 demographic. Its 26.48 A18-49 rating marked an 12 percent decline from last year (30.13) and its lowest rating since at least 1992. CBS’ preview of the reboot of crime solver “The Equalizer” starring Queen Latifah on Sunday […]
CBS was a modest runner-up to ABC in prime time, thanks to the annual event on Super Bowl eve, “NFL Honors” (0.641m A18-49). This year’s edition — dipping to a new low for the ceremony since its 2011 inception — was off 18 percent from Feb. 1, 2020 which had aired on Fox. In late-night, […]
ABC was the lead network in prime time among adults 18-49 with original airings of “Shark Tank” (0.78 A18-49 rating) and “20/20” (0.64 A18-49 rating). Compared to the last time their Friday nights had all-original programming (Jan. 15), ABC grew 2 percent (0.69 vs. 0.67 A18-49 rating) CBS was the total viewer leader but in […]
With ABC’s lineup full of reruns of game show “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune”, Fox became the night’s No. 1 network, thanks to the No. 1 prime time telecast “Hell’s Kitchen” (0.935m A18-49). The Gordon Ramsay-hosted reality competition remained steady from last Thursday. In addition, other network’s shows benefited from the all-rerun ABC: NBC’s “Superstore” (0.601m […]
Almost everything on the broadcast networks remained relatively the same as the previous Wednesday, except for CBS where its dramas were in repeats. NBC, the top network of the night, gained 2 percent from last week; “Chicago Med” (1.280m A18-49) rose the most of those trio of Chicago dramas with an 8-percent increase. CBS’s annual […]
An NBA doubleheader (Los Angeles Clippers at Brooklyn Nets; then Boston Celtics at Golden State Warriors) helped TNT (approx. 0.58 A18-49 rating) slightly edge out ABC for the top spot among adults 18-49. There were larger margins of victory for TNT in the adults 18-34 and key male demos. Despite a 17-percent decline from the […]
“The Bachelor” (1.903m A18-49) was practically even from its previous episode and it easily gave ABC the prime time victory in all key demos. Fox, which featured a crossover between “9-1-1” (1.315m A18-49) and “9-1-1: Lone Star” (1.084m A18-49), fell 18 percent from the previous Monday but remained the solid runner-up network to ABC on […]
Each of the four network game shows — ABC’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (0.755m A18-49), ABC’s Card Sharks (0.624m A18-49), a rerun of NBC’s The Weakest Link (0.488m A18-49), and a rerun of NBC’s The Wall (0.500m A18-49) — gained at least 90 percent from the prior week. Of course, in the past […]
The season premiere of “NBA Saturday Primetime” (1.078m A18-49) that featured the Los Angeles Lakers at Boston Celtics easily made ABC the No. 1 network in prime time and represented a 71-percent increase from the year-ago game (76ers-Celtics: 0.632m A18-49 from Feb. 1, 2020). From last year’s season start, though, it was down 11 percent […]
