South Park has 883,000 DVR Viewers And Increases By 27% Over Live
For the week of March 24-30, 2008, Comedy Central's South Park was the top cable time-shifted show with an increase of 27.2% over its Live audience in its Live+7 viewing audience. It also had the second largest time-shifted audience of 883,000 viewers. It's not the first time that South Park as topped the cable time-shifting list, but it hasn't been there since the week of November 5-11, 2007.
MTV's The Hills had the largest absolute time-shifted audience at 905,000 and the second largest increase over Live viewing of 20.5%.
Top 20 Most Time-shifted (DVR viewed) Cable Shows:
|
Rank |
Programs |
Network |
Persons Live+7 (000s) |
Persons Live (000s) |
Time-shifted Audience (000s) |
% increase from Live to Live+7 |
|
1 |
South Park |
CMDY |
4,134 |
3,251 | 883 | 27.2% |
|
2 |
THE HILLS |
MTV |
5,309 |
4,404 | 905 | 20.5% |
|
3 |
AMERICA'S BEST DANCE CREW |
MTV |
5,286 |
4,747 | 539 | 11.4% |
|
4 |
KIDS CHOICE 08 |
NICK |
7,739 |
7,156 | 583 | 8.1% |
|
5 |
WWE Raw |
USA |
5,112 |
4,759 | 353 | 7.4% |
|
6 |
ZOEY 101 |
NICK |
3,490 |
3,252 | 238 | 7.3% |
|
7 |
WWE Raw |
USA |
5,530 |
5,189 | 341 | 6.6% |
|
8 |
ELLA ENCHANTED |
DSNY |
3,420 |
3,244 | 176 | 5.4% |
|
9 |
SpongeBob |
NICK |
3,669 |
3,519 | 150 | 4.3% |
|
10 |
SpongeBob |
NICK |
3,564 |
3,424 | 140 | 4.1% |
|
11 |
SpongeBob |
NICK |
3,255 |
3,135 | 120 | 3.8% |
|
12 |
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 |
DSNY |
4,456 |
4,296 | 160 | 3.7% |
|
13 |
SpongeBob |
NICK |
4,304 |
4,154 | 150 | 3.6% |
|
14 |
SpongeBob |
NICK |
4,499 |
4,344 | 155 | 3.6% |
|
15 |
SPONGEBOB |
NICK |
3,713 |
3,587 | 126 | 3.5% |
|
16 |
SPONGEBOB |
NICK |
4,008 |
3,872 | 136 | 3.5% |
|
17 |
iCarly |
NICK |
3,091 |
2,995 | 96 | 3.2% |
|
18 |
SPONGEBOB |
NICK |
3,447 |
3,346 | 101 | 3.0% |
|
19 |
Hannah Montana |
DSNY |
3,466 |
3,368 | 98 | 2.9% |
|
20 |
SPONGEBOB |
NICK |
3,747 |
3,648 | 99 | 2.7% |
Filling out the top 10 was MTV's America's Best Dance Crew, Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards special, two episodes of WWE Raw, Nickelodeon's Zoey 101, Disney's Ella Enchanted, and, of course, two episodes of Nickelodeon's Spongebob, which also took 7 of the second 10 spots.
No more sightings of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor which placed two in last weeks list. In fact, the second 20 was dominated by Spongebob and other Nick fare plus two Law & Order:SVUs at #25 and #28, and the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball game of the opening day and stadium opening game between the Braves and the Nationals at #26.
Our time-shifting chart ranks which of the Top 40 cable shows had the largest % increase in viewing between Live audience and Live+7 audience numbers from viewers watching shows later on their digital video recorders (DVRs) as well as indicating the size of the audience that watched in the 7 days after the live show aired.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
