RATINGS
CNN said its Monday-night event featuring Kamala Harris, the Democratic senator from California who recently threw her hat into the 2020 Presidential election, was “the most-watched cable news single-candidate election town hall” ever among the A25-54 news demo. Town Hall with Sen. Kamala Harris scored 712,000 A25-54 from 10-11p. In Total Viewers it averaged 1.96 million.
Hallmark Channel was the most watched and highest rated across cable in primetime for the entire month of January, excluding news and sports nets. Driven by its annual “Winterfest” programming, featuring four consecutive Saturday-night movie premieres, the net was also number one every weekend throughout the month. The four consecutive Saturday-night premieres averaged a 2.8 HH rating, 2.9 million Total Viewers and 428,000 W25-54.
Last Saturday’s 48 Hours: Was Kevin Cooper Framed? ep garnered CBS the program’s largest audience this season and was the night’s top primetime program with viewers, according to Nielsen Live+SD ratings for January 26. At 10p, 48 Hours delivered 4.83 million viewers and a 0.9/04 with A25-54, the show’s largest audience since February 3, 2018.
From Monday through Friday the week of January 21, Univision delivered week-over-week audience growth among Total Viewers 2+ (+4% to 1.5 million), A18-49 (+5% to 596,000) and A18-34 (+11% to 242,000.
Top 10 Broadcast Programs Among A18-49 ratings/share for the week of January 21, 2019
FOX: The Masked Singer 2.3/9
NBC: This Is Us 1.9/8
NBC: AGT Champions 1.6/6
NBC: Ellen’s Game of Games 1.6/7
ABC: Grey’s Anatomy 1.6/7
ABC: The Bachelor 1.5/6
ABC: The Conners 1.5/7
CBS: Big Brother Monday 1.5/6
CBS: Big Bang Theory 1.4/6
ABC: NBA Saturday Primetime 1.4/7
TV Time’s Binge Report for the Week of January 21, 2019
Marvel’s The Punisher (Netflix) - 4.87%
Sex Education (Netflix) - 4.64%
You (Netflix) - 2.74%
Friends (NBC) - 2.53%
Grace and Frankie (Netflix) - 2.06%
Gossip Girl (The CW) - 1.92%
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NBC) - 1.91%
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) - 1.53%
Titans (DC Universe) - 1.50%
Riverdale (The CW) - 1.49%
The weekly Binge Report ranks shows with the most binge sessions. A binge session is when four or more episodes of a show are watched and tracked in our TV Time app within a given day.
Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of January 21, 2019
ABC: Good Morning America 4.32 million total viewers; 1.1/11 and 1.32 million A25-54
NBC: Today 4.21 million total viewers; 1.2/12 and 1.47 million A25-54
CBS: This Morning 3.28 million total viewers; 0.7/7 and 891,000 A25-54
Broadcast Evening News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of January 21, 2019
ABC: World News Tonight 9.70 million total viewers; 1.7/8 and 2.07 million A25-54
NBC: Nightly News 8.98 million total viewers; 1.8/8 and 2.12 million A25-54
CBS: Evening News 6.80 million total viewers; 1.2/6 and 1.50 million A25-54
Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of January 21, 2019
CBS: The Late Show 3.23 million total viewers and .45/3 A18-49
NBC: The Tonight Show 2.25 million total viewers and .46/3 A18-49
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 1.93 million total viewers and .34/2 A18-49
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions): Monday, January 28, 2018, time period averages
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD
NBC: 8.78 million
America’s Got Talent: The Champions 10.38, Manifest 5.59
ABC: 6.42 million
The Bachelor 6.35, The Good Doctor 6.55
CBS: 5.16 million
Big Brother Celebrity Edition 4.67, Magnum PI 5.62, Bull 5.20
FOX: 4.65 million
The Resident 5.38, The Passage 3.92
Telemundo: 800,000
Exatlón Estados Unidos 861,000, Jugar con Fuego 803,000, Senora Acero V 677,000
Univision: 1 million
Jesus 944,000, Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia 1.03, Amar a Muerte 969,000
CW: 1.07 million
Arrow 1.21, Black Lightning 0.92
Monday A18-49 Rating: ABC 1.6/7, FOX .9/4, NBC 1.5/7, CBS .8/3, UNI .4/2, TELE .3/2, CW .3/1
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Authentic Entertainment executive Sara Reddy has been promoted to EVP, Current Programming. Reddy joined the company in 2007 and has produced content for TLC, Discovery, A&E, MTV and others. Additionally, Brian Pargac has been upped to VP, Development, and Adriana Garcia elevated to Director, Development.
Jane Fuller joined business strategy company Magid as VP, Strategy Consultant. Fuller previously served as Director, Insights and Analytics for the Coca-Cola Co.
Anime destination Crunchyroll hired John Leonhardt as Head of Consumer Products. He most recently led Dimensional Branding Group’s licensing and brand extension practice.
Indie animation studio Mercury Filmworks appointed former Gaumont creative executive Heath Kenny to the role of Chief Content Officer.
Left/Right, the Red Arrow Studios company behind The Circus, The Zoo and the upcoming New York Times series The Weekly, promoted Mary Robertson to SVP of Current Production and Pete Ross to SVP of Development.
Cream Productions appointed series producer Matt Booi to Senior Production Executive. Booi has a long history with Cream, having served as writer, producer, showrunner and exec producer of projects including The Dictator’s Playbook for PBS.
Media tech company Stringr appointed Drew Berkowitz as SVP of Sales. Berkowitz most recently served as Global VP of Sales at Storyful.
Answer to our last trivia question: Who was the first actress to be nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe award and Screen Actors Guild award every year her show aired in the eligibility period? Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer (2005-2012). Kudos to: David Clark-Vice/Brooklyn, NY; Mike J. Lu-Independent Acct Executive/NY; Rory Rosegarten-The Conservation Co./Roslyn, NY; Eric Litt-Tribune Broadcasting/Chicago; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; David Westberg-SAG•AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank.
Today’s Trivia Question: On which show did Veep actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale previously work together? (Email trivia@cynopsis.com with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: A limit of four correct answers from each time zone will be selected.).