For what ever reason, I do not have the opening week of the 1998-99 TV season, (Sept. 14 - 20). So, we kick off the season with week two, Se...

We close out the 1997-98 TV season with the week of September 7 - 13, 1998. With most series in repeats, just before the start of the 1998-9...

With Valentines Day just one day away, I thought i would show some love and push out five weeks of USA Today archived ratings, from July 27 ...

The week of July 20, 1998 looked very much like the week of July 13, 1998. CBS and NBC in the weekly averages, with ABC a close third and FO...

It is the middle of the summer season, in 1998, and CBS and NBC tie for the week, mostly filed with repeat programming and newsmagazines. ...

It was a three way battle in the weekly ratings, for the week of July 6, 1998, as NBC, CBS and ABC are separated by less than a point, with ...

A week after just edging NBC for the top spot in the weekly ratings, CBS dominates this week's numbers. CBS posted a seven tenths of a p...

The third week of June, 1998, was back to normal, after the NBA FINALS had been completed. NBC and CBS battled for the top spot, with NBC ed...

The last three games of the 1998 NBA Finals grabbed the top three spots, for NBC. The games averaged 31.8 million viewers, with the decisive...

It has been a while since I last posted a USA TODAY archived ratings chart. The "day job" has been keeping me pretty busy since th...

It is easy to forget most of the series that aired on UPN, but the science fiction series SEVEN DAYS was one of the better dramas the networ...

After losing the February sweeps to CBS, NBC roars back and win the week of March 2, 1998. The peacock network drew an 10.0 household r...

NBC and the World Series dominate the weeks ratings, in 1997. All five games played in the week take the top five spots, including Game #7 a...

Week #2 of the 1997-98 TV season looks like a snapshot of the first week. NBC takes the top five spots, with its Thursday line up, and domin...

We finish out the Summer of 1997 with the last three weeks of the 1996-97 TV season. MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, on ABC, its the top program in t...

The Dog days of summer. The broadcast networks are all in repeat mode or pilot burn-off. The NFL was starting its 1997 with preseason games,...

For this week's release of the USA Today ratings chart, for March 1997, I only have three of the four weeks available. Either I lost the...

This week's archives looks at the 1997 February Sweeps period, from January 30th to March 26th. ER was the #1 program all four weeks o...

The November sweeps were pretty much won by NBC, which won three of the four weeks. Its dominating schedule filled with hit comedies was jus...

The summer of 1996 was owned by NBC. They had the NBA Finals, The MLB All-Star Game and the Summer Olympics, held in Atlanta. The NBA Fina...