While politics isn't as popular as the Super Bowl, or even Monday Night Football, or for that matter, a repeat episode of Lost, politics was good for CNN and Fox News this week. The two most viewed programs on cable for the week were both on CNN (Democratic Debates and Anderson Cooper 360) and an additional airing of Anderson Cooper 360 placed in the top 10. Overall CNN had 4 shows in the top 20, with the Republican debates coming in #15.
The President's State of the Union Address gave Fox News Channel a rare two shows in the top 10 (#7 and #8).
Monk, Psych and both hours of WWE: RAW make the top 10. SpongeBob could only muster 5 spots on the list this week. Two airings of The Incredibles performed very well for Disney, and Phineas and Ferb makes the list for Disney as well.
Full Top 20 Cable Results for the week ending 2/3/2008:
| RANK | PROGRAMS | NET | Live+SD AA(000) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SR/CALIFORNIA DEM DEBATE(S)-01/31/2008 | CNN | 8,324 |
| 2 | Anderson Cooper 360(S)-01/31/2008 | CNN | 7,705 |
| 3 | WWE Entertainment (WWE Raw) | USA | 5,988 |
| 4 | INCREDIBLES, THE | DSNY | 5,727 |
| 5 | MONK | USA | 5,447 |
| 6 | WWE Entertainment (WWE Raw) | USA | 5,443 |
| 7 | STATE OF THE UNION 2008(S)-01/28/2008 | FOXNC | 4,480 |
| 8 | ST UNION/ANALYSIS(S)-01/28/2008 | FOXNC | 4,440 |
| 9 | PSYCH | USA | 4,342 |
| 10 | Anderson Cooper 360 | CNN | 4,164 |
| 11 | SpongeBob | NICK | 4,129 |
| 12 | INCREDIBLES, THE | DSNY | 4,118 |
| 13 | SpongeBob | NICK | 4,024 |
| 14 | LAW & ORDER | TNT | 4,021 |
| 15 | SR/CALIFORNIA REP DEBATE(S)-01/30/2008 | CNN | 4,018 |
| 16 | Phineas and Ferb | DSNY | 3,987 |
| 17 | LAW & ORDER | TNT | 3,912 |
| 18 | SpongeBob | NICK | 3,883 |
| 19 | SpongeBob | NICK | 3,869 |
| 20 | SpongeBob | NICK | 3,867 |
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Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Really good numbers for “Phineas and Ferb.”
Really good numbers for “Phineas and Ferb.”
I am curious as to how rating for TBS Primetime lineup are, such as when they run Family Guy, Everybody Loves Raymond or Friends? And for Futurama on Comedy Central. Any idea?
Shaun, we only get the top 40 cable programs for the week and TBS shows usually don't rank that high as was the case this week. But all we can reasonably conclude from that without wildly speculating is that the shows on TBS do less than ~3.1 million viewers typically.
“Family Guy, Everybody Loves Raymond or Friends?”
All those shows are in syndication; which I believe puts them into an entirely different “TV Ratings” category???
I know Zap2it.com has a “Syndicated TV Ratings” list; I know that Seinfeld, Friends, and Everybody Loves Raymond appear on that list every week (and all shows receive well over 3 million viewers), they just don't show what channel its on though…
I am curious as to how rating for TBS Primetime lineup are, such as when they run Family Guy, Everybody Loves Raymond or Friends? And for Futurama on Comedy Central. Any idea?
we have syndicated ratings as well, but they're national and wouldn't focus on just the TBS portion
Alex, syndicated shows don't run on a single network, they're on whatever local broadcaster buys them.
Instead of “network” in our syndicated ratings, we have “Originator” (aka, syndicator), but that's a business distinction, invisible to viewers.
Shaun, we only get the top 40 cable programs for the week and TBS shows usually don’t rank that high as was the case this week. But all we can reasonably conclude from that without wildly speculating is that the shows on TBS do less than ~3.1 million viewers typically.
“Family Guy, Everybody Loves Raymond or Friends?”
All those shows are in syndication; which I believe puts them into an entirely different “TV Ratings” category???
I know Zap2it.com has a “Syndicated TV Ratings” list; I know that Seinfeld, Friends, and Everybody Loves Raymond appear on that list every week (and all shows receive well over 3 million viewers), they just don’t show what channel its on though…
we have syndicated ratings as well, but they’re national and wouldn’t focus on just the TBS portion
Alex, syndicated shows don’t run on a single network, they’re on whatever local broadcaster buys them.
Instead of “network” in our syndicated ratings, we have “Originator” (aka, syndicator), but that’s a business distinction, invisible to viewers.
Thansk for the info Robert
Thansk for the info Robert