In the key 18-49 ratings demographic, Modern Family is the highest-rated comedy on ABC as well as the second highest-rated overall in Live+7 day measurements.
The renewal delays came from a number of disagreements over how much the series should cost.
It has been having some ratings problems recently, but the same can be said for many other TV comedies nowadays.
ABC and production studio Fox couldn’t come to an agreement for a while about production costs, even without factoring the salaries of the actors.