CBS earned a pretty typical Friday win – its 23rd of the season in total viewers and 21st in the demo – with its slate of nostalgia dramas that drove Blue Bloods (0.8 demo rating, 8.00 million viewers) to the top spot for the night.

At 8 PM, the network’s Macgyver (0.7, 6.26M) was first in both metrics, topping the…

Multi-network coverage of the NFL Draft, including Fox’s primetime coverage, contributed to dizzying drops for primetime heavyweights on Thursday night.

Fox’s 8-11 PM three-hour coverage (1.1, 5.83M) nearly doubled its last week Live + Same Day performance, scored collectively by Gotham and Showtime at the Apollo.

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CAA Sports padded its stats last night, with nine of its clients being selected in the first round of the NFL Draft. It says that ties the record for most by any agency, set by CAA Sports in 2009.

The agency had three of the top 10 picks in Philadelphia on Thursday night: No. 3 Solomon Thomas from Stanford (San Francis…

UPDATED, 1:35 PM: There will be more picks tonight, but the final numbers are in for Day 1 of the 2016 NFL Draft and it was not a win for ESPN. Down double digits from last year, the three-hour-plus broadcast of Round 1 from Chicago drew a total of 6.29 million total viewers and a 2.7 rating among adults 18-49.

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UPDATE, 12:26 PM: The final scores for Day 1 of the big pick are in and it's a Bronze for ESPN this year. Day 1 of the NFL Draft drew 7.03 million total viewers and a 4.5 rating among Adults 18-49 last night. That's the third best Draft Day 1 has done since it was first broadcast by ESPN in 1980. It is also a 29% fall…

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