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| Total Viewers (million) | 16.048 | 11.60 | 10.83 | 3.87 | 3.345 | .72 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 5.6/14 | 3.9/10 | 2.6/7 | 1.6/4 | 1.4/4 | 0.3/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 5.0/14 | 3.0/8 | 1.8/5 | 1.7/5 | 1.6/4 | 0.3/1 |
Please note in the table above, the Fox numbers are only for the 7p-10p portion.
World Series Update (9:42AM PDT) : According to Fox, adjusting for time zones, last night's game four drew 15.479 million over a three hour and three minute duration (8:27p-11:30p EDT). It had a 5.1 rating among 18-49 year olds and a 4.3 rating among 18-34 year olds based on preliminary fast national results. Additional detail about last night's World Series and this week's ratings via Fox Sports is available here.
As of this writing (9:20am PDT) we have not yet seen the 18-34 data, but when I see it, I will add it in.
the 18-34 data has been added, but please note as with the table above, in the table below for Fox, only 7pm-10pm data is added, but the World Series results for the full game are above in bold...
I'm feeling as blah as NBC's ratings were last night. Somewhere near the end of a blah (unless you're a Philadelphia Phillies fan) World Series game in what, unless there is a major turnaround, is turning into a blah World Series (unless you're a Phillies fan) I fell asleep on the couch. As blah as it was, coupled with NFL overrun, it was still plenty enough for Fox to win the night in terms of viewers and the 18-49 demographic.
Somewhere around 4am my cat walked over my head and woke my up. Having slept for pretty much of eight hours, I was wide awake so I watched last night's season two finale of Mad Men. I found it mostly...BLAH. Plus for the first time in two plus weeks I am experiencing a typical San Francisco morning. Only for the first two plus weeks the typical morning where in the idyllic suburban surroundings I now find myself in involved the sun. This morning we're completely socked in. Blah.
On top of all this I have to go grovel with the California Division of Motor Vehicles. So yeah...blah.
As has been stated elsewhere the World Series ratings are definitely on track for record lows. But these numbers aren't time zone adjusted. When I see the full time zone adjusted data for the whole game, I'll add a link to it here.
Things probably won't be quite as bad for NBC as last night was once Sunday Night Football is over with. I'm not surprised that the combination of Football Night in America, the movie rerun The 40 Year Old Virgin and a repeat of The Office didn't didn't perform well and you have to figure NBC can't be surprised either, so that effectively seems like a towel toss on NBC's part.
DH gained a little ground over last week, but didn't see a spike due to the lack of Sunday Night Football though the . Brothers & Sisters was actually down a little bit vs. last week's overnights. It's hard to compare CBS to last week's overnights because last week it had football overrun that pushed the schedule back a bit. It seems like some of the SNF viewers filled the void with the World Series, while others must have hopped over to cable.
However blah I'm feeling, it isn't CW Sunday night style BLAH! Our understanding is that Media Rights Capital is on the hook for 13 episodes of the Sunday night shows. It's hard to imagine the experiment going on any longer than that...
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 7:00 | FOX | Football Overrun Giants/ Steelers | 21.99 | 7.9/23 | 7.0/23 |
| CBS | 60 Minutes | 12.52 | 2.3/6 | 1.3/4 | |
| ABC | America's Funniest Home Videos | 8.53 | 2.5/7 | 1.8/6 | |
| UNI | Futbol Mexicano: America vs. Guadalajara | 2.94 | 1.3/4 | 1.5/5 | |
| NBC | Football Night in America | 2.56 | 0.8/2 | 0.7/2 | |
| CW | In Harms Way | 0.64 | 0.3/1 | 0.3/1 | |
| 7:30 | FOX | The OT | 15.94 | 5.9/16 | 5.3/17 |
| 8:00 | FOX | World Series Rays/Phillies Pregame/Game | 14.95 | 5.0/12 | 4.4/12 |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 12.15 | 3.9/10 | 2.7/7 | |
| CBS | The Amazing Race | 9.71 | 3.0/7 | 2.3/6 | |
| NBC | Movie: 40 Year Old Virgin | 4.29 | 1.7/4 | 1.8/5 | |
| UNI | Futbol Mexicano: America vs. Guadalajara | 3.44 | 1.5/4 | 1.7/5 | |
| CW | Valentine | 0.85 | 0.3/1 | 0.4/1 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Desperate Housewives | 15.21 | 5.7/13 | 4.7/12 |
| FOX | World Series Rays/Phillies | 14.23 | 4.9/11 | 4.2/11 | |
| CBS | Cold Case | 12.00 | 2.8/6 | 1.9/5 | |
| NBC | Movie: 40 Year Old Virgin | 4.69 | 2.1/5 | 2.3/6 | |
| UNI | Show de los Seunos | 3.62 | 1.5/3 | 1.6/4 | |
| CW | Easy Money | 0.67 | 0.2/1 | 0.3/1 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | Brothers & Sisters | 10.11 | 3.6/9 | 2.9/8 |
| CBS | The Unit | 9.10 | 2.5/6 | 1.6/4 | |
| NBC | Movie: 40 Year Old Virgin | 4.68 | 2.0/5 | 2.1/6 | |
| UNI | Show de los Seunos | 3.75 | 1.5/4 | 1.6/4 | |
| 10:30 | NBC | The Office (R) | 3.24 | 1.4/4 | 1.7/5 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
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.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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I see that The Unit is still getting decent ratings even without any overrun. I thought for sure that the move to Sunday would kill the show. Guess not.
That WS game number follows the pattern for this year of viewership being about 3/4 of what each game in sequence was last year (except for the crazy Sat. rain delay numbers).
I’m feeling your blah, Robert. These seem like very boring numbers all around. The only fun part left to Sunday is seeing how low CW can sink in the demo. Think they’ll be getting 0s soon?
ValentineEasy Money (all the MRC shows look alike to me?) was rounded to a zero share in the report I saw to compile the above, but it seems to be a rounding error in the report as in the half hour data each half hour was a .2/1Which demo is the most important…..the 18-49 or 18-34? I haven’t watched Cold Case this year because I lost interest half way through last year but are the ratings lower than usual?
hookedonmick, for all the networks but CW, likely 18-49.
Robert; if you want to feel a little less “Blah” maybe its time to consider moving to the “East Bay” Walnut Creek, Lafayette, San Ramon….but then you won’t be able to call one of the greatest citys home!
Thought TAR would do a little better, ratings wise sans football…wrong again.
Richard, he did! Yet the fog followed him today!
Richard, I was not clear — I *did* move to the East Bay — fairly close to San Ramon. The sun is breaking out, and I’ll still likely lie and claim San Francisco as home
I thought the non NBC channels would have more of a pickup without SNF, I too was wrong.
Well guess who’s doing well against the World Series? Older skewing shows on CBS. Leslie Moonves is a pure genius when it comes to show developmentand programming. They might be old-ish skewing shows but they get the job done. Unlike Ben Silverman’s sorry slate of schedule on NBC
Sunday is a good day for ABC
Can’t believe 10 million people watch Extreme Makeover and Brothers & Sisters, Brothers & Sisters is sometimes annoying
NBC is going to be the next CW if the ratings continue to go down
Robert, I’m still waiting for the 0 rating in the demo for CW/MRC. That will be when the real fun starts.
But the real question is what will CW do with the time once the 13 episodes are up? Just more repeats?
Arrghh – No Sarah Connor tonight – and more of the goofy looking Circus With the (pretend) Stars…
….looks like another night to get some late errands accomplished and then a DVD tonight…yea sounds good…ooohh…maybe a Terminator DVD at that- Hmmm?!
Is not “Show de los Seunos”, the correct way is “Show de los sueños” btw.
and DH was very good last night. Will be the #1 scripted show in the week.
Cool, only if you don’t count CSI.
Julia, CSI definitely beat DH in viewers, but DH will just barely beat CSI in the demo (5.5 to 5.7).
Tonight will be an interesting night for the World Series. Unless the heart of the Rays’ lineup picks it up, it’ll have a real tough time going against the Monday night slate.
Am I the only person with that fish song still in my head from the start of Game 3? Very clever from Philly.
The repeats of OTH etc. did better than the MRC program now. Maybe they should show repeats of older series, such as Friends, Gilmore Girls or even Charmed.
Ah, thanks, Holly. I didn’t notice that.
Another East Bay resident here….I live in Pleasanton. I’m glad to know that DH ratings have stablized so far this season. Last nights episode was really good. Too bad ABC always ruins its spring run by shoving in too many repeats. It wouldn’t kill them to produce a few extra episodes.