Top Primetime Cable Programming
Top ten cable networks and programs during primetime for the week of September 1-7, 2014
View ArticleLocal Cable & Tune-In Advertisers Latch on to “The Walking Dead"
“The Walking Dead” has been a slam dunk ratings winner. Over the past four seasons, the show has seen its 4th Quarter (Live) U.S. household ratings rise from 1.84 (in its first season) to 3.65 last year.
View ArticleLocal Cable Political Ad Spending Accelerating
The dramatic increase in 2014 political spending that we documented two months ago has – if anything – accelerated as candidates nationwide have reached the home stretch that unofficially began after...
View ArticleLast Call for “Sons of Anarchy”
Make no mistake about it -- “Sons of Anarchy” is an original that viewers keep flocking to in droves. Over the past two seasons, practically every episode surpassed the rating of its prior season...
View ArticleThose Housewives are for Real
But ever since this TV franchise was born as “The Real Housewives of Orange County” in 2006, it has been a ratings winner in all but one of its seven U.S. city renditions.
View ArticleTop Primetime Cable Programming
Top ten cable networks and programs during primetime for the week of September 29 - October 5, 2014
View Article“Vikings” Slash Their Way to Large Ratings
Watching the History Channel’s first two seasons of the “Vikings” has not been for the faint of heart. There’s plenty of blood to go around, and I do mean “plenty”.
View ArticleHallmark Holiday Movies Lift Spirits and Ratings
But they sure do now with the Hallmark Channel, which will air a dozen new holiday movies starting in early November and running through the middle of December.
View ArticlePolitical Advertising Demand: A Mad Dash for the Finish Line
The 2014 midterm elections turned out to be a marathon that ended in a mad dash sprint of political ad spending.
View ArticleTop Primetime Cable Programming
Top primetime cable networks and programming for the week of Oct. 20-26, 2014
View ArticleA Dozen Marathons for Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving there’ll be more than just another helpin’ of apple pie on our plates as several cable networks serve up numerous favorites in “marathon blocs” from Thursday, November 27th right...
View ArticleLet the Flames Begin
Entering its 12th Season, this perennial favorite cooking show from Bravo sure has some legs given all its international adaptations and domestic spin-offs. Each new season “Top Chef” is set in a...
View ArticleEureka
Gold Rush” that follows a cast of characters (I mean “miners”) scooping and digging away at gold placer deposits in the Yukon Territory in the hope of striking it rich.
View ArticleAmerican Horror Story
In its 2011 premiere season, American Horror Story turned in solid ratings, and ever since then audience levels have been going in only one direction: straight up!
View ArticleThe #1 College Football Team is...
But rankings or no rankings, college football bowl games around the holiday season are a special treat for millions of sports fans who will tune primarily to ESPN for at least 30 different games,...
View ArticlePretty Little Liars
Over the past two summers, Pretty Little Liars has been a model of consistency, achieving an average 1.0 U.S. HH Rating and hardly deviating at all.
View ArticleThe Ax Men Cometh
A few weeks ago, we wrote about Discovery Channel’s hit-series, “Gold Rush”, which is one of several original cable TV shows that fall under the narrative arc of “men in danger” – the danger, of...
View ArticleDance Moms
Welcome to the Abby Lee Dance Company, a real-life dance studio in Pittsburgh, PA, which has been run for over a quarter of a century by the strong-willed, larger-than-life, Abby Lee.
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