Comments on: American Idol has most DVR viewers, Gossip Girl has greatest share of viewing by DVR

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:19:30 +0000

Miranda, that’s when the data is available from Nielsen. Three Tuesdays after the Sunday that ends the week in question. Live+SD data, is available one Tuesday after the Sunday. I could see Live+7 data someday being available sooner than it is today because of improved processing speed, but it’ll never be sooner than 2 Tuesdays after the Sunday ending the week simply because an extra 7 days of data must be gathered.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:15:58 +0000

Curious as to why it takes 2 weeks to get +7 number out. in dollhouse’s case, it’ll almost be 3 weeks. does anywhere else provide this information earlier?

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:34:38 +0000

Miranda, this is for the week before Dollhouse premiered.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:26:02 +0000

What about the Dollhouse T:TSCC DVR etc ratings?

By: VYuci

VYuci — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:43:16 +0000

Thanks guys

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:37:04 +0000

slow old man

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:36:25 +0000

Here are the Chuck DVR numbers, same columns as above:
CHUCK NBC 9,403 8,469 7,683 786 1,720 18.3% 45.7%

Edit: Robert ahead by seconds!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:36:09 +0000

1.72M total DVR viewers, 9.403M total live+7 audience (Chuck 3D episode). 786K out of the 1.72 watched same day, so most watched later in the week.

By: VYuci

VYuci — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:30:06 +0000

Robert, do you have the DVR numbers for Chuck? I’m just curious to see what numbers the show got.

By: clutz

clutz — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:10:43 +0000

I wonder if FNL’s consistent showing in top 20 most-DVR’d-by-percentage will play any factor in DirecTV/FNL trying to deal up another season? Conventional wisdom says DVR shouldn’t be a factor here, but FNL hasn’t exactly followed conventional rules .

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:28:08 +0000

Tom, my understanding is that Nielsen attempts to match its panel against real world composition. so most of the DVR homes they are tracking would be from cable and satellite systems, followed by TiVo.

While there are many Media Center PCs in the wild, almost nobody uses them as DVRs (I have been since 2004) and even fewer still hook them up to their televisions. It wouldn’t surprise me to find that there is zero representation for Myth TV, but I don’t think that probably unjustly skews the results.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:21:35 +0000

Forgive me if this is covered somewhere on the site and I missed it, but what does “DVR” and “DVR viewer” actually mean?

For DVRs, just which types are we talking about? I assume Tivos report back, but what about the various cable system provided DVRs? What about the do it yourself varieties: Windows Media Centers and the various Linux programs (e.g. Myth TV)?

For DVR viewers/C3 ratings: How are they correlating the numbers of physical machines (which they know) with the number of people actually sitting there watching it (which they presumably don’t). Assuming DVR ownership is evenly distributed amongst all demographics (which it isn’t) and extrapolating from there?