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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.1/6 | 1.9/6 | 1.8/6 | 1.4/4 | 1.4/4 | 0.5/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.6/6 | 1.4/5 | 1.9/6 | 1.7/6 | 0.8/3 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.24 | 8.46 | 4.38 | 3.62 | 5.88 | 1.27 |
Led by Wipeout, ABC edged out NBC for the night with adults 18-49, while NBC had the night's most overall viewers.
At 8pm Wipeout easily wiped out its time slot competition with a 2.6/9 (rating/share) with adults 18-49 and 7.62 million viewers. Second for the hour was So You Think You Can Dance: The 15 Best (1.9/6, 4.64M), followed by an America's Got Talent recap (1.5/5, 7.15M) a repeat of The New Adventures of Old Christine (1.1/4, 4.46M) and the CBS Fall Preview (0.9/3, 3.84M) and a repeat hour of America's Next Top Model on the CW (0.5/2, 1.27M).
At 9pm America's Got Talent (2.6/8, 12.1M viewers) easily led the hour and one the time period by a commanding 44% margin with adults 18-49. Still, FOX might be happy with the results of a reairing, but not exactly repeat airing of the Glee pilot (it was the directors cut) with a 1.8/5 with adults 18-49 and 4.2 million viewers.
Though viewership was not high for either the SYTYCD clip show or the Glee airing, the concentration of 18-49 viewers was good, especially for non original episodes. The early indication is the two shows fit together nicely. Both premiere next week...
Elsewhere at 9pm was ABC's Crash Course (1.7/5, 4.53M and down slightly from last week's premiere 1.9/5 rating) a repeat of Criminal Minds (1.7/5, 6.96M) and another repeat hour of America's Next Top Model (0.6/2, 1.27M)
At 10PM the winner was ABC's Primetime: Crime (1.9/6, 6.58M), a repeat of Law & Order: SVU (1.8/5, 6.13M) and a repeat of CSI: NY (1.5/4, 6.54M).
In the late night wars:
Conan and the Tonight Show led David Letterman and CBS' Late Show in the demos (1.0/5 adults 18-49 vs. 0.7/3 -- top 24 local people meter markets only) and Conan also had a 75% lead with adults 18-34 (0.7/4 vs. 0.4/2). Jimmy Fallon also came on top over The Late Late Show with adults 18-49 in Nielsen's 24 largest people meter markets. Fallon's 0.5/3 topped Ferguson's 0.4/2 and was also ahead with adults 18-34 (0.4/2 vs. 0.3/2).
You didn't really think Ferguson's fabulous rant ("why everything sucks") came completely out of thin air, did you?
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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.
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- Conan O'Brien (1.0/5 in 18-49 in local people meters) beat CBS's LATE SHOW (0.7/3) by a 43% margin among adults 18-49 in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters. Conan's margin over LATE SHOW grew to 75% in adults 18-34 (0.7/4 vs. 0.4/2).
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) topped CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.4/2) by a 25% margin. In 18-34, Jimmy topped Ferguson by 33% (0.4/3 vs. 0.3/2).
To the tune of the theme song (used in the first few seasons) of Weeds, “Little Boxes”
Pretty tables
Pretty tables
Pretty tables made of overnight ratings
Pretty tables made of overnight ratings
and they all look just the same
There’s a Monday one
and a Tuesday one
And they’re all made out of overnight ratings
Pretty tables made out of overnight ratings
And Nielsen took them all away
:’(
P.S. still working on a strategy to bring them back!
i miss tables!!!!!!
WOW! Glee Did Terrible. WTF!
Umm.. isn’t a 1.8 for a reapeat not that bad (considering its summer), plus its just more for Glee! (
). Which is will need all it gets as I’m sure being a comedy musical show it will be hard to find an audience (I hope it does).
I don’t really get the table problem, whats wrong with the tables; people who care (which the guy from ABC will mind) will only look at the results not the format. People who just want to know are just inconvienced by this (though I guess its hard to be moody about no tables when we at least get to see the results!)
I had no idea Fox was repeating the Glee pilot last night till the last minute, literally – 5 minutes before the broadcast began. I’m also peeved that they said it was the director’s cut, yet there was hardly any new material at all.
I thought from day 1 that Glee is not one of those shows that will do hugely in the ratings no matter what it follows. It’s quirky with understated humor and those shows never do well, particularly on trigger-happy Fox.
Try publishing the data for each show in this format, for example:
Wipeout-2.6-9-2.0-8-7.62
Then, publish this line:
Show Title-Demo 49-Share 49-Demo 34-Share 34-Ttl Viewers
Now, kids, you can make your own tables at home, but don’t tell AC (I won’t
):
Copy the title line from the website and paste it into a blank Notepad document, hit Enter.
Copy each data line, paste into the new Notepad document, hit Enter after each paste.
Save the Notepad document.
Open the document in Excel, and use the dash, not a comma, as the delimiter.
Et voila – tables! Not quite as nice as Bill and Robert’s – but Nielsen can’t sue us for rolling our own, as long as none of us let the tables we make at home out into the wilds of the Internets – or can they?
(Eh-oh, Fa-La
)
Fairly decent rating for the rerun of the GLEE. But I’ll stand by with my prediction that this wont get huge total audience numbers but might win the 18-49 demo.
I might have tuned into Glee if I had known it was on, but as I haven’t had any reason to tune into any of the Networks between 8:00-11:00 for months, I missed any promos for it. I do know that the new Season starts next week though and will be watching then.