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| Total Viewers (million) | 16.571 | 10.557 | 10.338 | 5.007 | 2.613 | 1.345 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 6.8/17 | 2.8/7 | 3.2/8 | 2.3/6 | 1.0/3 | 0.6/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 6.1/17 | 2.0/5 | 2.6/7 | 2.6/7 | 1.2/3 | 0.6/2 |
The Dallas Cowboys may not have won a playoff game since 1996, but they triumphed in the ratings on Sunday night (and beat the Packers too) as NBC's football line up averaged 16.571 million viewers and a dominant 6.8 rating for demo adults 18-49 and a 6.1 rating for demo adults 18-34. ABC's Emmy lead line up managed second in the 18-49 demo with a 3.2, and Fox, surprisingly, with animated repeats only managed a tie for second with ABC in the 18-34 demo with a 2.6 rating.
Sunday Night Football was the most watched show of the night peaking between 9-10pm with 20.693 million viewers, and steamrolling the demos in each of its hours. Keep in mind that live sports event fast affiliate overnight results are subject to revisions because of their measurement methods, see below.
The 60th Annual Emmy Awards average of 12.242 million viewers was 6% below last's years final viewership of 13.0 million. I thought it might fall much further. It was a distant second across the board to football in each of its hours, and embarrassingly close to a Cold Case repeat in its first hour. The Emmy lead-in, Jimmy Kimmel's Big Night of Stars, was anything but big with only 4.630 million viewers and rock bottom demo adults ratings of 1.3 (18-49) and 0.9 (18-34).
The only other new show for the night, 60 Minutes, beginning its 40th season, got a football distorted result of 17.287 million viewers and a 4.9 adults 18-49 rating and a 3.9 adults 18-34 rating. That's likely to be significantly adjusted before the final numbers are out.
That wraps up the last night of the annual 2007-8 television year. It's 2008-9 now folks, let the games begin!
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers Live+SD (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/ Share | 18-34 Rating/ Share |
| 7:00 | CBS | 60 Minutes | 17.287 | 4.9/14 | 3.9/13 |
| NBC | Football Night In America | 8.782 | 3.5/11 | 2.9/9 | |
| FOX | American Dad (repeat) | 4.731 | 1.9/6 | 1.9/7 | |
| ABC | Jimmy Kimmel's Big Night of Stars | 4.630 | 1.3/4 | 0.9/3 | |
| UNI | Show de los Suenos: Sangre de Mi Sangre | 1.844 | 0.6/2 | 0.8/3 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (repeat) | 1.366 | 0.6/2 | 0.7/2 | |
| 7:30 | FOX | Simpsons (repeat) | 4.618 | 2.0/6 | 2.4/8 |
| 8:00 | NBC | Sunday Night Football (Cowboys/Packers) | 18.095 | 7.4/18 | 6.7/18 |
| ABC | 60th Primetime Emmy Awards | 11.819 | 3.7/9 | 3.2/9 | |
| CBS | Cold Case (repeat) | 10.430 | 2.4/6 | 1.5/4 | |
| FOX | Simpsons x2 (repeat) | 5.103 | 2.3/6 | 2.8/8 | |
| UNI | Show de Los Suenos: Sangre de Mi Sangre | 2.895 | 1.2/3 | 1.4/4 | |
| CW | Priviledged (repeat) | 1.112 | 0.4/1 | 0.4/1 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | Sunday Night Football (Cowboys/Packers) | 20.693 | 8.4/19 | 7.6/19 |
| ABC | 60th Primetime Emmy Awards | 12.939 | 4.0/9 | 3.3/8 | |
| CBS | Cold Case (repeat) | 7.813 | 2.0/5 | 1.3/3 | |
| FOX | Family Guy (repeat) | 5.245 | 2.5/6 | 3.0/7 | |
| UNI | Show de Los Suenos: Sangre de Mi Sangre | 3.095 | 1.2/3 | 1.4/3 | |
| CW | America's Top Model (repeat) | 1.556 | 0.8/2 | 0.7/2 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | Sunday Night Football (Cowboys/Packers) | 18.714 | 7.9/19 | 7.4/19 |
| ABC | 60th Primetime Emmy Awards | 11.967 | 3.8/9 | 3.1/6 | |
| CBS | Criminal Minds (repeat) | 6.698 | 1.9/5 | 1.2/3 | |
| UNI | Show de Los Suenos: Sangre de Mi Sangre | 2.620 | 1.1/3 | 1.2/3 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot. Note that some of these numbers differ from Berman's, I suspect math errors.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Overnight Ratings: Local metered-market ratings service of Nielsen Station Index (NSI) in which household ratings and shares are provided to clients the morning following the day or evening of telecast. While routinely used for "next day" immediate analysis, these fast affiliate ratings are by process inaccurate for programs that air live across a network since they represent affiliate time period performance. For example, last night's 10-11pm affiliate #'s would reflect 10pm on the East Coast but also 10pm on the West Coast which for a live event would not represent the same broadcast or portion of the broadcast.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
LIVE+SD: The number that watched a program either while it was broadcast OR watched via DVR on the same day [through 3AM the next day] the program was broadcast.
For more information see Numbers 101.
I’m actually surprised 12 million wtached a show that is horrible and not only that, it nominates and gives awards to shows few people watch. Why don’t they do a cable Emmy show and a Network Emmy show?
Bob, I have read rumblings in the trade press that after this round of the 4 big broadcasters carrying the Emmy’s finishes cable networks may make a bid to telecast the show, and that there may be format changes. But, to be honest, there may have been rumblings like that for some time and things have changed little so far.
Why would want the Academy to go on cable so that even fewer people will watch the show
Money, it’s always the money. What I’ve read is that there are some in the broadcast industry who chafe at the money paid to the academy for an event with ever declining ratings that now gives out more awards to cable networks than broadcast networks. Perhaps a cable network would be willing to pay more.
I remember when HBO wanted to host the awards (late 90′s/early 2000 chatter) and there was some sort of backlash against the idea.
Cartoon repeats on FOX at 7 PM did reasonably well. Certainly trounced the Til Death repeats heh.
But it’s a huge gamble: maybe more money on the short term but on the long term what for the Academy?
My sense from what I read was less that cable was throwing big $ the Academy’s way than broadcast was less enthusiastic about the show and the money it was paying for it.
I truly don’t understand why they’re mixing cble show with network shows. The rusles are completely different. Look how horrible Dexter looks on CBS beacause of those rules
We see only the broadcast network ratings. I’d like to see the both the broadcast AND cable ratings for the metro NYC area on Sunday Night. I’d to know how many people around here watched ESPN, which showed the last home game played by the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, which was preceded by a ceremony honoring the players who played there, both past and present. That had to make a dent in the ratings, I’d bet.
There are no overnight cable ratings. We may very well see an ESPN press release on last nights Yankees game and will post it if we do. Otherwise, we will see the weekly final results on Tuesday and its very likely the ESPN game numbers will be in it.
I mean Obama and McCain were on 60 minutes last night so maybe it retained most of its audience after football.
Eddie, you may be right. My reference about “football distorted” overnight ratings is more because these fast affiliates overnight numbers measure not the viewership of the individual shows, but who watched the networks affiliates during those time periods. If football runs over past 7pm it boosts the 60 Minutes overnight numbers, but not the final (actual) numbers.
The only reason I watched last night’s emmys was to see the design of the set. THE SHOW WAS SO BORING! IT WAS TOO LONG!!!! I can’t believe they keep airing it for 3 hours. They should change the format. It should start at 9pm with the red carpet, then the actual show at 9:30pm. That way the cable networks can air the red carpet coverage on primetime (7pm-9pm)
MAYBE IT’LL BE LIKE THAT WHEN IT MOVES TO CABLE IN 2 OR 3 YEARS
So, over/under on Heroes premiere? I say 9.2/11.6 (in total viewers)
What about Dancing with the Stars maybe it was number 1 last night.
Heroes was remarkably consistent last season after the premiere. Here are last season’s numbers:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007/11/18/heroes-ratings-2007-2007/1812
I’ll take the Over on 11.6 million average viewers for the 9-11pm show. It’s the premiere and the competition from 10-11 is weak. If NBC doesn’t get more than that, woe be to them.
(Note: A 9.2 HH rating would almost certainly be well above 11.6m viewers.)
nana, if DWTS isn’t the top show for average viewers, I’ll be stunned.
Well, the finale was weak, from everything I heard, and it’s been a very long break, which usually doesn’t mean a spike in viewers. Add to that everything but CW being down, pretty much, and we get my guess.
And the way I play over/under with my friends is we all guess the range. So I meant it’ll be over 9.2 mil, not 9.2 HH.
Ah, misread your notation. If it’s not over 9.2 million average viewers, Ben Silverman’s got reason to start sweating.