these are based on final, not preliminary numbers. Via ABC:
Quick Take for Monday, April 13, 2009
(National Live + Same Day Program Ratings)
Monday Night (8:00-11:00 p.m.)
ABC stood as the most-watched network (13.9 million) on the Monday night for the 7th week in a row. ABC also ranked No. 1 on the night among Women18-49 (4.8/12) and Women 25-54 (6.0/14), including a 13-week streak among Women 18-49.
"Dancing with the Stars" (8:00-9:32 p.m.)
ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" led its time-slot in Total Viewers (19.5 million) and Adults 18-49 (4.6/12), winning its time period in viewers for the 6th week running. In addition, "DWTS" qualified as Monday's No. 1 TV program in Total Viewers, Women 18-49 (6.6/16) and Women 25-54 (8.2/19) for the 6th time in as many weeks.
"Surviving Suburbia" (9:32-10:02 p.m.)
ABC's "Surviving Suburbia" demonstrated strong retention from its week-ago series debut of 86% in Total Viewers (9.7 million vs. 11.3 million) and 87% in Adults 18-49 (2.6/6 vs. 3.0/7), while posting gains among Teens 12-17 (1.5/5 vs. 1.4/4). Additionally, the freshman comedy took second in its time slot among Women 18-49 (3.7/9) and Women 25-54 (4.6/10).
A note about increasing DVR penetration and year-to-year rating comparisons: Year-to-year rating comparisons based on the Live + Same Day data stream are distorted by the level of DVR penetration in the Nielsen sample, which has jumped up to 30% currently, from 23% at the same point in 2008. More viewers are watching shows on their own timetables, which may not be reflected in the overnight next day numbers. The only truly valid year-to-year comparison would be one based on the Live + 7 Day metric, once those stats are released by Nielsen.
No surprise they left out Castle, a 2.0 from a 2.8! Thats just bad, although I’d love to say the show was safe based on it being great but the numbers don’t seem to reflect that.
indeed. And before posting I looked twice to make sure it wasn’t ME who left it off. It wasn’t, but I didn’t want to say anything since I’d just called for Castle to be canceled in another post and didn’t want anyone to get the idea I was picking on it (I’m not).
You should post more of these press releases. I like to see them twist the truth.
Clever how they left out Castle…I think they’re going to let it slip quietly into the night.
John, we post a lot of them, so many that we don’t usually feed them to RSS feed. With Bill out, there are a few fewer than normal, but if you want to make sure you don’t miss any spin you can look for them all here:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/network-press-releases
Castle is so dead. They are now pretending it doesn’t exist.
Castle will come back strong next week…