Comments on: TV Ratings Saturday: Soggy Yankees, World Series Game 3 Top Night

By: Dingo

Dingo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:29:10 +0000

Next year’s primetime game against Army in Yankee Stadium might do a little better but not much because Army hasn’t had a strong team in 60 years.

By: Doc MIchaels

Doc MIchaels — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:57:02 +0000

It might be worth noting that Notre Dame was playing a 1-6 Washington St. team — one of the worst in all of college football.

ND has some rebuilding to do in terms of a national audience but this is one game that never should’ve been on in prime-time. It would’ve done lousy at ANY time of the day — and also was opposite a pair of terrific ABC games, making things worse.

If USC was on playing 1-6 Washington St. they would’ve seen their numbers drop big-time as well.

By: J.R. Herbaugh

J.R. Herbaugh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:23:29 +0000

The listings say the premiere is up against new episodes of NCIS, The Biggest Loser, and So You Think You Can Dance. (Since when is South Park on MTV?)

3.1 for the premiere

By: glen

glen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:16:55 +0000

V should start strong, thanks to heavy promotion. As for Saturday numbers, NBC’s showing is rather poor. 0.5 in the 18-49 demo. I Remember when Saturday use to have hit comedy shows.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:01:46 +0000

I know this is off topic but what do you think the numbers will be for the new show V?

By: lainey

lainey — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:59:13 +0000

Well, the CSI’s didn’t do very well, either. Perhaps the fact that it was Halloween did have something to do with how well everything did, with the exception of the game, which people were making a concentrated effort to see. Yes, that’s an excuse, but it’s not much of a reach. Lot’s of adults, and not just the really “young” ones, go out to parties and clubs to have fun on the holiday.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:51:01 +0000

Folks, the Cleveland Show numbers were a typo. They are now corrected.

By: R.G

R.G — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:37:07 +0000

You forgot to mention it was Halloween.

By: Cullen

Cullen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:30:14 +0000

Ouch for NBC those numbers are really low especially compared to the ABC games.

And I think those Cleveland Show numbers might be wrong unless it miraculously pulled the exact same numbers as the rain delay.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:26:09 +0000

I agree with Ryan, about the Cleveland Show being “bridge programming”. People were just waiting for the game to start and kept the channel on. It wasn’t clear that the whole episode of CS was going to air and didn’t want to miss the game start. That completely explains the numbers.

By: RJ

RJ — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:36:43 +0000

ABC has ordered more Shark Tank according to Robert Herjavec (one of the sharks)

http://twitter.com/robertherjavec/statuses/5328661113

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:30:44 +0000

ABCHasProblems, last night’s Cleveland Show was basically “bridge” programming during the World Series rain delay. Since the WS skews heavily 50+, that accounts for what happened last night…baseball viewers basically waiting around for a WS game that didn’t have an exact start time. A total aberration relative to Sunday night.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:27:54 +0000

E, please refer to this article from SMW. World Series games during the day are not likely to happen again in any of our lifetimes.

http://sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com/2009/10/day-games-dont-rate-in-world-series.html

By: ABCHasProblems

ABCHasProblems — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:26:10 +0000

For being a repeat of a young-skewing cartoon, The Cleveland Show skewed surprisingly old last night. I wonder how many of those over-50 viewers will tune in next Sunday @ 9:30 for a new episode.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:23:25 +0000

The start time wouldn’t have mattered last night because the start was delayed by rain. Had they started it earlier there would have been lengthy rain delays/stoppages and probably would have caused ratings to suffer even more since people wouldn’t have known when the game was going to resume.

By: J.R. Herbaugh

J.R. Herbaugh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:11:07 +0000

You were right about the CBS numbers.

Cleveland’s “7.44 million viewers and a 2.3/ 8″ probably means a good number of people saw the show for the first time.

By: carl

carl — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:05:15 +0000

than how would those on the left cost watch whose home at 1:30 on say a wednesday people have jobs

By: Atimi

Atimi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:03:46 +0000

Great numbers for the Cleveland Show!

By: E

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:01:57 +0000

It’s time for MLB to consider a late afternoon start time for the Saturday World Series games. 4:30 Et start would be great for the fans and the ratings would not suffer that much.