at least according to Hitwise, if you lump PBS in with the big five, PBS is #1 and NBC number 2 (see third table below). Heroes, The Office and Dancing with the Stars were the top three show websites last week, but America's Most Wanted was fourth, coming in ahead of CSI.
| Hitwise Custom Report for Top Visited U.S. Broadcast Network TV Show Websites (Week ending October 18, 2008) | |||
| Rank | Network | Website | Market Share Of Visits |
| 1 | NBC | Heroes | 7.42% |
| 2 | NBC | The Office | 5.63% |
| 3 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 5.50% |
| 4 | FOX | America's Most Wanted | 4.84% |
| 5 | CBS | CSI | 3.10% |
| 6 | NBC | The Biggest Loser | 2.88% |
| 7 | NBC | Deal or No Deal | 2.84% |
| 8 | FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 2.69% |
| 9 | CBS | NCIS | 2.68% |
| 10 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 2.66% |
| Source: Rankings based on market share of U.S. visits among custom category of television network websites among six major commercial broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW and MyNetwork) for the week ending October 18, 2008 (Sunday – Saturday) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. | |||
| Source: Hitwise | |||
| Hitwise Custom Report for Top Visited U.S. Broadcast Network TV Websites (Week ending October 18, 2008) | |||
| Rank | Network | Website | Market Share Of Visits |
| 1 | NBC | www.nbc.com | 29.64% |
| 2 | ABC | abc.go.com | 26.16% |
| 3 | CBS | www.cbs.com | 20.98% |
| 4 | *FOX Aggregation | *FOX Aggregation | 14.25% |
| 5 | The CW Television Network | www.cwtv.com | 7.86% |
| 6 | MyNetworkTV | www.mynetworktv.com | 1.10% |
| Source: Rankings based on market share of U.S. visits among custom category of commercial broadcast networks websites (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW and MyNetwork) for the week ending October 18, 2008 (Sunday – Saturday) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. * includes traffic aggregated from stand alone websites americanidol.com, amw.com, familyguy.com, cops.com, thelot.com and thesimpsons.com. | |||
| Source: Hitwise | |||
| Including PBS | |||
| Hitwise Custom Report for Top Visited U.S. Broadcast Network TV Websites (Week ending October 18, 2008) | |||
| Rank | Network | Website | Market Share Of Visits |
| 1 | PBS Online | www.pbs.org | 38.52% |
| 2 | NBC | www.nbc.com | 18.22% |
| 3 | ABC | abc.go.com | 16.08% |
| 4 | CBS | www.cbs.com | 12.90% |
| 5 | *FOX Aggregation | *FOX Aggregation | 8.76% |
| 6 | The CW Television Network | www.cwtv.com | 4.83% |
| 7 | MyNetworkTV | www.mynetworktv.com | 0.68% |
| Source: Rankings based on market share of U.S. visits among custom category of commercial broadcast networks websites (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW and MyNetwork) plus PBS for the week ending October 18, 2008 (Sunday – Saturday) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. * includes traffic aggregated from stand alone websites americanidol.com, amw.com, familyguy.com, cops.com, thelot.com and thesimpsons.com. | |||
Why are people going to PBS?
Donations during pledge weeks?
Ah, that makes sense.
I’m amazed to see Terminator poking it’s head up into that list. Robert, does FOX ever put out press releases like NBC does showing download streams? Curious to see if FOX breaks them out by show and if Terminator ranks high in episodes streamed online.
FrankJ, not that I have seen. But I will reach out to a contact at Fox and find out if they ever publish any streaming/download data.