Share Last week Steve Jobs presented a new version of the Apple TV device and announced that it would stream only rented content and that TV episodes would be available at a lower price point of $0.99. With these changes Apple addressed weak points in its video strategy, which had caused lackluster sales. However, while [...]

Share Two weeks ago ABC broadcast the final episode of Lost, a popular show that whose ratings I’ve been posting about every now and then. The last episode tallied 13.5 million viewers, which was more viewers than the season’s premiere (something that hasn’t happened since the first season) and the most viewers for any episode [...]

Share Last night the final season of Lost began with a double episode premiere, garnering an average of 12.1 million viewers. The good news is that this is about 6% more than last season’s premiere, and it’s also the first time since Season 2 that a premiere has a larger audience than its precursor. The better news is that [...]

Share Most of the new broadcast television shows have premiered during the past three weeks and I thought it was time to draw a comparison among the top performers. The number one show in terms of overall viewers was NCIS, with a total audience of 18.9 million. Unsurprisingly, NCIS‘s lead-out and spin-off, NCIS: Los Angeles, also [...]

Share Back in May I published a post, Fall 2009 TV Lineup, which showed the new Fall lineups for ABC, CBS, Fox and the CW. During the past week the post has risen in popularity since the new Fall season is just around the corner. It actually begins this Saturday with the season start for Saturday [...]

Share This week the fifth season finale of The Bachelorette garnered 9.9 million viewers, easily winning the night in terms of total audience and the major demos. In terms of past seasons, this finale had the highest ratings of the series in five years. Still, it is less than half the epic audience that the [...]

Share This week all the major broadcast networks held their upfront presentations, announcing their upcoming fall schedules and subsequently the new shows they would be presenting. I put together some handy-dandy color-coded charts to navigate the new landscape. It looks like ABC and NBC are going to presenting the most new material, while Fox has [...]

Share This past week one of my favorite television shows, Lost, ended its fifth and penultimate season. I am sad to say that I was not completely satisfied by the finale. Judging by the show’s ratings I may not be alone in my dissatisfaction. As analyzed in a previous posting the show seems to have  [...]

Share I have always been a huge fan of the TV show Lost so it is with some regret that I noticed that this week’s episode reached the series’ lowest audience to date: 8.82 million viewers. While the show started strongly, with the second season premiere attracting more viewers than any episode during the first [...]

Share This morning I looked at this MediaPost article concerning a recent study by Magna Global of C3 and “live-only” 18-49 ratings for the major TV broadcast networks. There are little if any differences between C3 and live ratings for the current television season. However, there is a noticable drop in C3 ratings from 2007 [...]