Tuesday's American Idol has a Time-Shifted Audience of 3.8 Million
Tuesday's American Idol had the largest time-shifted (DVR viewed) audience at 3.772 million of any primetime broadcast network show for the week of March 24-30, 2008. Tuesday's American Idol was followed by Wednesday's American Idol with 2.628 million time-shifted viewers. I'm not 100% sure what would cause the 1+ million viewer difference between the two Idol nights, but I'll guess that Tuesday's Dancing with the Stars attracts many of the same viewers as Idol, but there is no comparable show on Wednesday. Any other ideas?
Rounding out the top 10 were Two and a Half Men, CSI: Miami, Medium, Dancing with the Stars, How I Met Your Mother, Apprentice, New Amsterdam and Wednesday's Big Brother.
Top 20 Largest Time-shifted Audience Broadcast TV Shows:
|
Rank |
Programs |
Network |
Persons Live+7 (000s) |
Persons Live (000s) |
Time-shifted Audience (000s) |
% increase from Live to Live+7 |
|
1 |
American Idol-TUESDAY |
FOX |
26,147 | 22,375 | 3,772 | 16.9% |
|
2 |
American Idol-WEDNESDAY |
FOX |
26,664 | 24,036 | 2,628 | 10.9% |
|
3 |
Two and a Half Men |
CBS |
15,253 | 12,966 | 2,287 | 17.6% |
|
4 |
CSI: MIAMI |
CBS |
17,289 | 15,298 | 1,991 | 13.0% |
|
5 |
MEDIUM |
NBC |
10,077 | 8,401 | 1,676 | 20.0% |
|
6 |
Dancing with the Stars |
ABC |
21,198 | 19,551 | 1,647 | 8.4% |
|
7 |
How I Met Your Mother |
CBS |
11,276 | 9,675 | 1,601 | 16.5% |
|
8 |
APPRENTICE 7 |
NBC |
12,818 | 11,326 | 1,492 | 13.2% |
|
9 |
NEW AMSTERDAM |
FOX |
7,126 | 5,656 | 1,470 | 26.0% |
|
10 |
BIG BROTHER 9-WED |
CBS |
6,212 | 4,876 | 1,336 | 27.4% |
|
11 |
DANCING W/STARS RESULTS |
ABC |
18,061 | 16,739 | 1,322 | 7.9% |
|
12 |
BIG BROTHER 9-TUE |
CBS |
6,303 | 5,030 | 1,273 | 25.3% |
|
13 |
JERICHO |
CBS |
6,890 | 5,661 | 1,229 | 21.7% |
|
14 |
ELI STONE |
ABC |
7,399 | 6,226 | 1,173 | 18.8% |
|
15 |
OLD CHRISTINE |
CBS |
10,294 | 9,185 | 1,109 | 12.1% |
|
16 |
BIG BROTHER 9-SUN |
CBS |
7,699 | 6,697 | 1,002 | 15.0% |
|
17 |
Biggest Loser 5 |
NBC |
8,354 | 7,363 | 991 | 13.5% |
|
18 |
Simpsons |
FOX |
7,526 | 6,569 | 957 | 14.6% |
|
19 |
Smallville |
CW |
4,385 | 3,435 | 950 | 27.7% |
|
20 |
MEN IN TREES |
ABC |
6,226 | 5,319 | 907 | 17.1% |
For our SD (Same Day) fans out there:
|
Programs |
Network |
Persons Live+SD (000s) |
% SD Viewers of DVR total |
| American Idol-TUESDAY | FOX | 24,758 | 63.2% |
| American Idol-WEDNESDAY | FOX | 25,742 | 64.9% |
| Two and a Half Men | CBS | 14,235 | 55.5% |
| CSI: MIAMI | CBS | 16,065 | 38.5% |
| MEDIUM | NBC | 8,907 | 30.2% |
| Dancing with the Stars | ABC | 20,515 | 58.5% |
| How I Met Your Mother | CBS | 10,667 | 62.0% |
| APPRENTICE 7 | NBC | 12,132 | 54.0% |
| NEW AMSTERDAM | FOX | 6,194 | 36.6% |
| BIG BROTHER 9-WED | CBS | 5,874 | 74.7% |
| DANCING W/STARS RESULTS | ABC | 17,487 | 56.6% |
| BIG BROTHER 9-TUE | CBS | 5,961 | 73.1% |
| JERICHO | CBS | 6,023 | 29.5% |
| ELI STONE | ABC | 6,529 | 25.8% |
| OLD CHRISTINE | CBS | 9,774 | 53.1% |
| BIG BROTHER 9-SUN | CBS | 7,466 | 76.7% |
| Biggest Loser 5 | NBC | 7,840 | 48.1% |
| Simpsons | FOX | 7,144 | 60.1% |
| Smallville | CW | 3,860 | 44.7% |
| MEN IN TREES | ABC | 5,615 | 32.6% |
CBS had the most shows (8) out of the top 20 in absolute time-shifted audience size, one more than last week.
New Amsterdam continues with a significant DVR audience.
Eli Stone has yet to be renewed by ABC is #14 on the list, but the recently renewed Lipstick Jungle didn't make the top 20 list this week. Men In Trees, which I gave little chance of survival, appears at #20, showing that while few people watch it Live, a little more than a few watch it afterwards.
Again Smallville is the CW's only show in the absolute time-shifting list this week at #19 (with America's Top Model just off the list at #24)
Two and a Half Men moved up from the #5 position into #3, demonstrating that indeed CBS does have some viewers able to operate DVRs. How I Met Your Mother moved up the list from #13 to #7, but The Big Bang Theory which was #19 last week finds itself off the top 20 this week (it finished at #21).
Jericho, a favorite of our readers, moved down one position from #12 to #13 on the list.
We're now splitting our broadcast TV show time-shifting posts, if you're looking for the most time-shifted shows by percentage increase, go here.
The Largest Time-shifting Audience (DVR vieweing) table ranks which of the Top 150 broadcast shows [by Live+7 viewers] had the largest absolute number of time-shifted (DVR) viewers on their digital video recorders (DVRs). %SD of Total = percentage of a show’s total DVR viewing that happened the same day up to 3am the morning after the show aired.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
