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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 1.8/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.4/4 | 0.6/2 | 0.5/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.9/6 | 1.3/4 | 1.0/4 | 1.1/4 | 0.7/2 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 3.85 | 4.71 | 5.88 | 5.61 | 1.50 | 1.25 |
Big Brother was the night's most watched program with adults 18-49 averaging a 2.5/8 (rating share) with that demographic and 7.36 million viewers overall. At 9pm however, There Goes The Neighborhood lost more than 50% of the demo (1.2/3, 3.821M). A rerun of Cold Case didn't fare any better in the demo (1.1/3, 4.85M). Earlier in the night 60 Minutes averaged a 1.2/4 and 7.47M viewers.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire bowed out quietly in the finale of its limited run (1.5/5, 7.63M) while its lead in, a repeat hour of America's Funniest Home Videos did better in the 18-49 demo (1.6/6. 6.55M). Shark Tank had the best 18-49 performance of the night for ABC (1.8/5, 5.61M). Can it be long before Defying Gravity (0.8/2, 2.66M) moves to Saturdays?
Merlin aired its final two episodes of its first (and likely last in the US, at least on NBC) season and also bowed out quietly (1.0/3, 3.22M from 7p-8p, and 1.1.3, 3.92M from 8p-9p). Hey, that's better than Defying Gravity! From 9pm-11pm The 2009 Miss Universe Pageant averaged a 2.0/6 with adults 18-49 and 5.84 million as Miss Venezuela took the crown. That's on par with last year's results in the demo, so it doesn't look like Heidi Montag flashing her cleavage at the crowd made much difference.
FOX won the night with its all repeat lineup of comedies. 'Til Death at 7pm had the worst performance (1.0/4, 2.52M) and the Family Guy airing at 9pm (2.4/6, 5.25M) the best.
The best performing half hours of the night demo-wise were Big Brother and Miss Universe tied for the best demo half hours of the night. The 8pm half hour of Big Brother averaged a 2.6 with adults 18-49, as did the last half hour of the Miss Universe Pageant.
CW ran the classic Silence of the Lambs (0.5/1, 1.25M). Soon, CW will be silent on Sunday nights altogether, turning the night over to local affiliates.
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.
For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.
Um,Robert, I clicked on the link to Berman’s site and got sent to the ratings for August 16th.
there shouldn’t be a link to Berman’s site in this post (we didn’t get the data from him). If there is, that’s an error, but I don’t see the link.
Bummer about Merlin
Last night episodes were amazing
Fox ran a new episode of Til Death — in August? At 7pm?! Yeah, they really believe in that show.
‘Til Death was new? No it wasnt, was it?
I just check FOX’s website, and it was a repeat. If those numbers are correct, thats a jump of 0.2 in the demo. If ‘Til Death can pull a 1.0 demo for a repeat on Sunday at 7pm, it should be able to do at least a 1.3 on a Friday.
RJ, you are correct….
“Huh” see above.
Post corrected…
is it me or or is the phrase “bowed out quietly” for millionaire sort of at odds with it being the highest rated show of the night in viewers?
i know i know… 18-49 18-49 18-49… we all pray to the 18-49 gods. just saying it’s kinda funny.
tom, considering it once had 30+ million viewers…
It was a nice twist with millionaire last night, with Regis being the celebrity guest.
Robert, yes, but that was 10 years ago. And I believe these episodes are only slightly below how it did in the first episodes of its 1999 summer run.
Super Millionaire, considered a success, averaged around 13 million I believe, during a non-summer run.
VERY exciting episode of Millionaire last night.
Not gonna spoil it if you didn’t see it, but strongly encourage to watch on Hulu ( http://www.hulu.com/watch/91322/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-season-finale ).
Super Millionaire aired in 2004 and had two runs*
I think everyone knows that the only ratings people care about for Sundays this summer are True Blood and Mad Men. I know they’re not released until Tuesday or Wednesday yet that doesn’t stop me from coming here first thing.
All I can say to the finale of Millionaire is “wow”.
Is there any way to get the full ratings? Maarc Berman doesn’t have them yet.
I care about Shark Thank, after an awful premiere numbers is building week after week.
Q, cable overnight ratings are released (at least to the networks) the next day, just not as early as the broadcast overnights. I think somewhere around ~2pm on the east coast. So depending on how the wind blows we might hear about Mad Men and True Blood today, but will definitely hear by Tuesday.
Dennis, it looks like about 2 minutes after your comment, Travis posted the half hourly details:
http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/932102632
The more I see Shark Tank, the more I love it. And it’s great to see that it maintained that 1.8 despite Millionaire still getting a 1.5 before it. But can anybody tell me why ABC is going to air it before Dancing with the Stars in September rather than after?
Ron, not really. Millionaire premiered on a Monday to 7.5 million — that’s true enough, but by Wednesday of the first week was over 11 million, and by Sunday 15 million. It caught on pretty quickly, even in the first week.
robert… back then millionaire wasn’t on every day for 8 years. i know we expected higher numbers but looking at it fair… the numbers they got were pretty good for summer august doldrums especially on ABC. at least they got some summer eyeballs for a change
and i am not in any way trying to offend you or the others that pray to the 18-49 god. i pray to him too as long as i am in his age range. i am not mocking it. i understand it 100 percent. so don’t take offense.