Following up on our earlier post on the C+3 commercial ratings for the week of September 22-28, here is the list of the top 20 shows via TVWeek, with the C+3/Live+SD ratio added by me so you can tell which shows did relatively better than others compared to their Live+SD ratings. As it was in the top 10 list, Fringe, with its limited commercial breaks is the outlier.
| Rank | Program | Net | C+3
18-49 rating |
Live+SD
18-49 rating |
C+3 /
Live+SD Ratio |
| 1 | Grey's Anatomy | ABC | 6.97 | 7.4 | 94% |
| 2 | Sunday Night Football | NBC | 6.49 | 6.9 | 94% |
| 3 | Desperate Housewives | ABC | 6.35 | 7.1 | 89% |
| 4 | CSI: Miami | CBS | 4.99 | 5.2 | 96% |
| 5 | Dancing with the Stars | ABC | 4.86 | 5.3 | 92% |
| 6 | Two and a Half Men | CBS | 4.72 | 5.3 | 89% |
| 7 | House | Fox | 4.72 | 5.1 | 93% |
| 8 | Heroes | NBC | 4.64 | 5.0 | 93% |
| 9 | The OT | Fox | 4.59 | 4.9 | 94% |
| 10 | Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick | NBC | 4.46 | 4.5 | 99% |
| 11 | The Office | NBC | 4.34 | 4.9 | 89% |
| 12 | Brothers & Sisters | ABC | 4.32 | 4.6 | 94% |
| 13 | Dancing with the Stars Special | ABC | 4.30 | 4.7 | 91% |
| 14 | The Simpsons | Fox | 4.27 | 4.5 | 95% |
| 15 | Criminal Minds | CBS | 4.26 | 4.7 | 91% |
| 16 | Family Guy | Fox | 4.23 | 4.5 | 94% |
| 17 | Fringe | Fox | 4.10 | 4.1 | 100% |
| 18 | CSI: New York | CBS | 3.89 | 4.0 | 97% |
| 19 | Survivor: Gabon | CBS | 3.81 | 4.5 | 85% |
| 20 | How I Met Your Mother | CBS | 3.71 | 4.0 | 93% |
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Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Don’t get fox but I’m glad fringe is doing so well because I am familiar with the lead since his Dawson’s Creak days.
They should show reruns of Fringe after Idol, maybe it will encourage more 18-25 yr olds to watch. Though it doesn’t seem to need much help in that dept anyway.
very impressive results for the CSI:NY and CSI: Miami in terms of the ratio.
I’m glad for CSI:NY, weren’t they struggling at first right off the bat? they have greatly improved in numbers, though I have to roll my eyes sometimes at the almost 3 dimentional graphics/ hollogram they use to examine a body. I can’t help but think, “Yeah right, as if.”