For the week of June 2-8, 2008, the Wednesday telecast of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance lead all broadcast shows in audience % gain by time-shifting (DVR viewing). Its audience increased by 22.8% over the 8.492 million that watched it Live giving it a Live+7 audience of 10.431 million.
Fox's Hell's Kitchen was second with an increase of 22.3%. Rounding out the top 10 were Tuesday's So You Think You Can Dance, The Mole, Last Comic Standing, Men In Trees, The Bachelorette, Farmer Wants A Wife, Telemundo's Friday Pecados Ajenos, and Fear Itself.
Now it's summertime, the living is easy and TV audiences are down and our lists often have some surprises, but a Telemundo show in the top 10 time-shifted % gainers (and 2 in the top 20) is still noteworthy.
Fox dominated the weeky % gain from time-shifting list with 9 of the top 20 shows.
Top 20 Most % Time-shifted Broadcast TV Shows:
| Rank | Programs | Network | Persons Live+7 (000s) | Persons Live (000s) | Time-shifted Audience (000s) | % increase from Live to Live+7 |
| 1 | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE-WED | FOX | 10,431 | 8,492 | 1,939 | 22.8% |
| 2 | HELL'S KITCHEN | FOX | 10,241 | 8,375 | 1,866 | 22.3% |
| 3 | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE-THU | FOX | 10,114 | 8,301 | 1,813 | 21.8% |
| 4 | THE MOLE | ABC | 5,355 | 4,419 | 936 | 21.2% |
| 5 | LAST COMIC STANDING | NBC | 5,435 | 4,573 | 862 | 18.8% |
| 6 | MEN IN TREES | ABC | 5,803 | 4,975 | 828 | 16.6% |
| 7 | THE BACHELORETTE | ABC | 6,780 | 5,816 | 964 | 16.6% |
| 8 | FARMER WANTS A WIFE | CW | 2,213 | 1,922 | 291 | 15.1% |
| 9 | PECADOS AJENOS F | TEL | 1,201 | 1,061 | 140 | 13.2% |
| 10 | FEAR ITSELF | NBC | 5,731 | 5,125 | 606 | 11.8% |
| 11 | SWINGTOWN | CBS | 9,054 | 8,168 | 886 | 10.8% |
| 12 | MOMENT OF TRUTH | FOX | 6,984 | 6,473 | 511 | 7.9% |
| 13 | Family Guy | FOX | 5,325 | 4,942 | 383 | 7.7% |
| 14 | HOUSE | FOX | 9,759 | 9,080 | 679 | 7.5% |
| 15 | Bones | FOX | 7,158 | 6,660 | 498 | 7.5% |
| 16 | COPS | FOX | 4,102 | 3,825 | 277 | 7.2% |
| 17 | REAPER | CW | 1,637 | 1,528 | 109 | 7.1% |
| 18 | How I Met Your Mother | CBS | 6,162 | 5,784 | 378 | 6.5% |
| 19 | Simpsons | FOX | 4,277 | 4,017 | 260 | 6.5% |
| 20 | JUNTO AL TRI 6/4 | TEL | 1,009 | 948 | 61 | 6.4% |
The % Time-shifting table ranks which of the Top 150 broadcast shows [by Live+7 viewers] 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).
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Catherine, Indeed, and because of that time-shifting in general is way down.
Compare this week to a week during the May sweeps when it took a 19% increase just to make the top 20, and this week 19% would have put a show at #5.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/06/05/office-aga…
Of course the reality shows would be the highest time-shifted for the summer. We've already recorded most of the repeats.
Catherine, Indeed, and because of that time-shifting in general is way down.
Compare this week to a week during the May sweeps when it took a 19% increase just to make the top 20, and this week 19% would have put a show at #5.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/06/05/office-aga…