Comments on: Updated Wednesday: President Draws 24.7 Million; So You Think You Can Dance Benefits

By: stephenie meyer

stephenie meyer — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:40:17 +0000

WATCH “I SURVIVED A JAPENESE GAME SHOW”

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:59:03 +0000

Personally I think Barry Soreto wins because more people didn’t uhhh…. seeee, uhh… his… um…. errr…. poor answers.

By: Burn-E

Burn-E — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:28:34 +0000

The constant conferences take a lot of ad revenue from the networks, the affiliates, and even the advertisers themselves who’d rather have the benefit of the ads than to save the money. This isn’t like a State of the Union that they can plan for ahead of time.

Why not just use public television? It may not be as glamorous but doesn’t some form of PBS cover every part of the country?

By: Rick Holy

Rick Holy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:37:28 +0000

Bill, thanks for the info. You either have a “crack staff” to get this data so quickly, or YOU are the “crack staff.” Either way, thanks. I think the Pres. could do with a little less “face time” on the tube. If he’s making TV appearances so frequently, he’s going to blur the distinction between what’s really pressing and really important – and what is just a part of his particular agenda for his presidency. He’s entitled to pushing that agenda – after all, he was elected based on what he said he would do – but enough already of the nationally-televised press conferences for every item of that agenda.

And if he “bumps” CHUCK off the air again during Season 3 like he did in Season 2, I’m REALLY going to have a problem!!

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:23:57 +0000

Ricky Holy, I’m sure plenty of folks keep track, but that would not include us! Here is some data from yesterday’s NY Times.

Mr. Obama has given roughly three times as many interviews as George W. Bush and held four times as many prime-time news conferences as Bill Clinton had by comparable points in their terms.

Bill note: That’s a goofy way of comparing Clinton to Obama. Why not just say Clinton had 1, Obama had 4?

Past presidents have been more exclusive in giving exclusives, believing they would have more impact. In their first four months, Mr. Clinton gave 11 interviews and Mr. Bush gave 18, compared with 43 by Mr. Obama, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, a presidential communications scholar at Towson State University.

By: Rick Holy

Rick Holy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:32:15 +0000

Does anyone keep track of how many nationally-televised press converences that Presidents have had in the “modern TV-era?” I’d be interested in seeing how Obama compares. It seems to me like he’s had A LOT. You can say that there are numerous problems that need the nation’s attention, but there have ALWAYS been problems and will continue to be problems that need the nation’s attention after Obama is in the history books. I’m just getting the feeling that the Pres. enjoys being on TV – maybe a little too much.

By: ABCFanatic

ABCFanatic — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:39:05 +0000

The Philanthropist and I Survived a Japanese Game Show are looking bad! I think those two will be cancelled.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:35:09 +0000

Of the ratings, share, households and persons what is more important for our President? Granted they are all important, but what can give him the best news even though the numbers are going down?

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:23:12 +0000

Twin Peaks/MediaFan, I posted that yesterday.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:21:02 +0000

Lets keep politics out of the comments.

By: Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:48:34 +0000

http://www.studiobriefing.net/studiobriefing.net/FILM_NEWS/Entries/2009/7/23_VIDEO_ON_DEMAND_HIT_RECORD_IN_JUNE.html
“While ratings for the broadcast television networks have been hitting record lows for the summer, viewers are increasingly watching video — primarily movies — on demand. Rentrak, which track transactional viewing, said Wednesday that, with 589 million transactions, June set a video-on-demand record. It said that during the month there was an average of 16.5 minutes of on-demand viewing a day. In addition, free on-demand children’s programs was up 7 percent from May. “

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:41:07 +0000

NBC always has a great “premise” but they can’t deliver…Kings, Life, Philanthropist, My Own Worst Enemy and Bionic Woman. These had the ability, but NBC can’t pull it off.

By: Alex_j

Alex_j — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:22:37 +0000

The Philanthropist officially sucks. 2 bad, the premise it self had potential. But, this is just bad, even for a summer schedule.

NBC just can’t have a break.

I’m certain ‘Body politic’ (I apologize in advance) could pull this kind of numbers during the summer. And it will probably (certainly) cost less then The Philanthropist.

By: yeahyou

yeahyou — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:58:47 +0000

Hopefully the President of the United States can just try to reach as many Americans as he can and not worry about hitting a good number in the demographic. But if he would outline his health plan and then run the Wipeout obstacle course, he might get more people to hear him out.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:34:20 +0000

fyi fox never showed bush’s press conferences for anyone trying to claim their scheduling is politically motivated

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:35:35 +0000

We do not get cable numbers on an overnight basis.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:27:54 +0000

where Leaverage and Dark Blue?

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:15:14 +0000

AniMatsuri, you win, you win!

The White House got scheduling push back from both NBC and ABC in addition to the “no” from Fox Broadcasting, and this was in mid-summer, when much less is on the line for the broadcasters.

Nothing happens in August, anywhere, but if the White House intends to do another press conference, they better be shooting for early September because I think all the broadcasters might shut him out from the third week in September until early November.

By: AniMatsuri

AniMatsuri — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:05:23 +0000

Looks like I win the no-prize in guessing the viewer numbers for the Presidential Address as I guessed in the neighborhood of 25 mil. would tune in to watch. When the numbers hit the low teens will more of the boardcast nets decide to just let it run on their cable channels?

By: JOSH

JOSH — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:04:41 +0000

just saw the post about british open…above..nevermind

By: JOSH

JOSH — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:03:48 +0000

too many conferences…space them out more and the numbers will go back up…
on a different topic..british open viewing?

By: jason

jason — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:57:41 +0000

another idea for the CW is that they could have CBS program their Weekends. that way CBS air their Saturday and Sunday night program on CBS and CW and they can advertise on both networks at the same time and attract viewers to CW. and CBS seriously should advertise this venture on their network since they do own part of it.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:53:56 +0000

why the hell do you think CBS is for old people? Many of the shows on CBS attract young audiences. most of the kids at my high school watch Two and A Half Men, Big Bang, Old Christine, and Unmarried. the drams are kinda dry and are more for old people. and yes CBS does occasionally show CW promos in the Monterey/Santa Cruz area. Usually the ads only show up during the 7pm hour during Entertainment Tonight and The Insider. but i bet more people wold watch the CW if CBS advertised their shows during their commercials in between shows. they own the network and they should pull their own weight and try to save the network since they are partial owners and they run America’s highest rated network.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:55:11 +0000

CBS should definately show some CW promos!!!

By: Shem

Shem — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:40:03 +0000

There are CW ads on CBS?? i have never seen any… But then again CBS is for old people.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:12:56 +0000

FYI, total press conference 11 network average viewership was 24.7 million. Down from 28.8 million for the April press conference.

By: gbd

gbd — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:55:53 +0000

Actually the term “Presser” has been around for years. A lot of “peeps” are just know hearing the term and because they have’nt heard of it before they are assuming it must be new.

By: cool

cool — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:04:48 +0000

^ No political comments, please.

By: Anson Pine

Anson Pine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:38:57 +0000

FOX only broadcasts Republican presidents, they are a rightwing corporation.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:36:06 +0000

Watched the President, Leverage, and recorded So You Think You Can Dance and watched it after Leverage and this morning, but I made sure I watched enough last night to vote for my choice in the alloted time. Since the individual performances were random you would have no idea what number to call for your favorite unless you at least recorded the show and fast forwarded it to find out the number.

And that is probably one reason why SYTYCD did well. They had three performance shows left as of Wednesday night. If you wanted to vote for your favorites you had to watch because the phone banks are only open for two hours per time zone. In addition there were probably a number of people who pro or con have their minds made up about health care and did not want to or need to watch the President.

By: tripp

tripp — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:29:54 +0000

I actually found the overnight numbers for both saturday and sunday of the british open, if anyone is interested…

Saturday: 2.4
Sunday: 3.9

Here’s the link
http://golf.fanhouse.com/2009/07/21/british-open-ratings-up-from-08-still-low-by-historical-standa/

By: jason

jason — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:26:06 +0000

why doesnt the CW ever broadcast the press conferences or anything? dont they realize they can get a larger audience attracted if they were to do this? and if the audience stuck around for the next show on the CW they can promote the hell out of their shows to get people to watch. they didn’t even hole any coverage for the elction. if i remember correctly they aired 90210 instead. i realize the CW doesn’t have a national new program butt hey could carry some type of coverage for these important things. The next time CBS airs the Superbowl, they should air it on The Cw since its owned by them. that way they can attract audiences to both networks. why dotn they ever think of brilliant marketing schemes anymore? all they do is advertise on their network and occasionally on CBS but if nobody is watching in the first plae what makes them think anybody will see the ads?

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:18:38 +0000

Bad Robot, I think of “presser” as one of the many terms of “Variety-speak” (although not limited to Variety) like “prexy” (president), “topper” (CEO), and “laffer” (comedy). Sort of the “this is our language, outsiders need not apply”.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:14:47 +0000

tripp, sorry I haven’t seen anything on British Open numbers. Nielsen does release non-primetime sports data on Fridays, but lately it has been uneven. I will keep an eye out though.

By: Bad Robot !

Bad Robot ! — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:05:55 +0000

Oh darn, I missed Obama’s “PRESSER” !! I guess that means I will have to go to Re-Education Facility to be indoctinated. PRESSER has to be the most annoying new term of 2009.

By: David R

David R — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:56:20 +0000

FOX didnt air the Press Conference?

Did here in Vermont…kinda annoyed with screwing up the schedule all the time.

If they didnt air it on FOX I wish our FOX wouldnt have also.

By: Don Surber

Don Surber — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:52:38 +0000

You know what that Obama show needs? A baby. A new baby always helps a show add viewers

By: eko5

eko5 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:26 +0000

Does anyone have numbers for TNT”s shows Leverage and Dark blue?

By: tripp

tripp — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:24:04 +0000

Bill, I was wondering if you’ve seen any press releases about the numbers the british open got this past weekend.

Thanks

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By: Master Moron

Master Moron — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:57:52 +0000

I think I’m done with The Philanthropist. During last week’s promo they made it seem like Jesse L. Martin’s character was going to die, but he didn’t. What a crock. Do they really think audiences in this day and age are going to stand for that crap? I’ve also come to the realization that Neve Campbell’s character is a bitch.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:34:31 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:13:36 +0000

I like I Survived/Japanese Games Show, so I’m sad to see it going down the hill! I also watched Wipeout last night with my mom, she is a big fan of the show. I am not so much.

Its weird becuase ABC puts promos for their fall shows during like BOT and Scrubs, but not as many during WIPEOUT. You’d think they would since more people watch it.

By: gbd

gbd — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:12:41 +0000

Hardly surprising really.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:56:52 +0000

TSA, no TV advertising is sold during press conferences.

By: TSA

TSA — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:55:31 +0000

Not airing the president’s press conference works for Fox because they’re the only ones doing it. If other networks started not airing the press conference, then it would concentrate the people who want to view it on the remaining networks.

Regardless, they don’t even sell advertising during the press conference anyway, do they? I’ve never seen the president pause for a commercial break, at least.

By: Kathy B.

Kathy B. — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:55:19 +0000

Thanks, Bill. I watched last week’s Rescue Me on DVR so I wasn’t exactly aware of what was on TV last night. Didn’t even realize that the President was making yet another press conference.

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:55:18 +0000

@Eric:

Misleading comment…

FOX won the night. Period.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:48:55 +0000

Kathy, those Lie To Me numbers are from April 29. I have made some changes to the post/table to make things less confusing.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:45:52 +0000

Misleading title…
More PEOPLE watched the president than MORONS watched So you think you can Dance…