Though I can't yet easily produce the normal data with household rating as well as viewers, we have seen the cable show average viewers rankings and as usual, Monday Night Football was the week's most viewed program. The Green Bay Packers vs. New Orleans Saints game average 11.38 million. A Thanksgiving night college football contest between Texas and Texas A&M was the week's number two program averaging 5.568 million. The WWE Raw airingson USA took the three and four spots, with last Monday's (11/24) 10pm airing averaging 5.047 million. SpongeBob took the fifth and sixth spots. The yellow and porous one's best outing was on Friday at 11am averaged 4.481 million and also took the 10th and 11th spots as well as all of the 13th-18th slots in the rankings.
Tinker Bell (movie) on Sunday night on Disney took the 7th spot with 4.40 million, Friday's Monk was 8th with 4.399 million, A Saturday night Airing of The Santa Clause 2 was ninth with 4.382 million, NCIS on USA (Monday 7pm) was 12th with 4.166 million and some sort of a 15 minute sneak peek of Madagascar 2 was 19th with 4.208 million. The movie Moonlight and Mistletoe on the Hallmark channel Saturday night was 20th with 4.02 million.
A sampling of airings not in the top 20:
- Home By Christmas (movie) Sunday night on Lifetime: 3.874 million
- Arizona Cardinals vs. Philadelphia Eagles, Thanksgiving night on NFL Network: 3.777 million
- Britney for the Record, Sunday night on MTV: 3.765 million
- Back at the Barnyard: Cowman: The Uddered Avenger, Sunday morning on Nick: 3.724 million
- Psych, Friday night on USA: 3.713 million
- A Dennis the Menace Christmas (movie), Sunday night on Family: 3.572 million
- The Christmas Shoes (movie), Sunday Night on Lifetime: 3.481 million
- Fairly Odd Parents, Thanksgiving morning on Nick: 2.965 million
- The Hills, Monday on MTV: 2.905 million
- Jon & Kate Plus 8: Monday night on TLC: 2.624 Million
- Sons Of Anarchy, Wednesday on FX: 2.481 million
- The Shield (series finale, Tuesday at 10pm on FX) 1.84 million
Odd the NFL Network numbers are sneezed at in other posts. But if they have 31-35 million subscribers for the NFL Network paying .70 a game.
ESPN is in 96 million homes.
If the NFL Network got up to the saturation mark of ESPN, their numbers would be comparable.
Hats off to the NFL Commissioner for fighting for those higher fees. If they dropped their high fee demand, cable companies would cave in a heartbeat, but they might as well keep holding out. As long as they can keep Congress’ nose out of things.
Monday Night Football was the week’s most viewed program. The Green Bay Packers vs. New Orleans Saints game average 11.38 million.
Arizona Cardinals vs. Philadelphia Eagles, Thanksgiving night on NFL Network: 3.777 million
shield finale?
life and times of tim?
Right, so that NFL Net game took in like, slightly more than a quarter of the viewers it would get on a channel that everybody has. I really hope the NFL wakes up this off-season and realizes that these games aren’t working for anyone.
Kayarn, I added the data for The Shield (look at the bottom of the bullets), I’m not doing special requests anymore, but Life and Times of Tim is on HBO, and sadly we only see data for basic cable.
Thanks for posting these other numbers.
Hard to believe that only 1.84 million watched The Shield’s finale.
Will go down as one of the greatest dramas in tv history that nearly everyone missed.
Can anyone tell me if those SpongeBob’s are the friday night ones? The new episodes? Thanks.
the most viewed airings of SpongeBob last week, were on Friday, but the most viewed last week was at 11am on Friday and 10:30am was the second most watched of the SpongeBobs. Friday at 8pm was third most watched SB.
I think the USA Network’s airing of NCIS has really helped attract a larger audience to the CBS prime time episodes.
I am one of those viewers who gets hooked on certain shows and that is all that I watch. I then find out about new shows that I have never seen before via syndication.
For me that doesn’t apply to NCIS, because I have watched it from day one. However, that does apply in my case to other shows witch are no longer on the air first run, such as Still Standing.
I really need to look at my posts more closely. Witch? Should have been which. See, you guys aren’t the only ones that occasionally make mistakes.
Robert, what was MTV The Hills Ratings for November 24th, December 1st, and December 8th?
we don’t have December 8th data yet. it was 2.72 million for 12/1.