Comments on: The Big Playback! The CW Again Earns Network TV's Largest % gains from Live+7 playback

By: Pop Culture Curmudgeon » Visions of Winchesters: The Supernatural Blog Carnival, November 3

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:31:52 +0000

[...] The Big Playback: The CW Again Earns Network TV’s Largest Gains from Live+7 Playback TV by the Numbers posts the CW’s press release touting the fact that people like their shows, but not enough to watch them live. [...]

By: james

james — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:39:07 +0000

@RJ:

Smallville has gone over NINE MILLION viewers before. Something VD will NEVER do.

By: Joselito

Joselito — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:34:51 +0000

To David Smallville wishes it ever reached a 2.0 ever in Demos that’s the only way it makes money. TVD has best of both worlds great live ratings and demos making it the number one show!

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:49:01 +0000

@ David:

I don’t recall Smallville going above a 2.0 demo among 18-49 year olds that often.

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:04:07 +0000

To the VD fan saying VD is killing other shows, last year Smallville’s string of episodes beat overall ratings for every single week of Vampire Diaries through now. It aired in the same slot.

SV would be greater competition for Vampire Diaries if they didn’t move it to friday night slaughterville.

No doubt VD is doing great, but it’s merely replaced SV w/ a better W18-34 demo (and women in general) which is why CW is in love w/ it.

By: Joselito

Joselito — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:08:40 +0000

GO VAMPIRE DIARIES DAMN THEY ARE KILLING THESE OTHER SHOWS!

By: GEORGE 11

GEORGE 11 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:38:33 +0000

thanks for the explanation!!!!

By: Smallville Buzz » Blog Archive » Smallville Gains More Than One Million Viewers From DVR Playback

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:35:20 +0000

[...] SOURCE: TVbytheNumbers [...]

By: Sparkle

Sparkle — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:30:20 +0000

Yeah, “more than a million” more viewers just sounds better!

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:23:25 +0000

Comparisons vs. Live viewing will always give either the same, but usually bigger increases than comparisons vs. Live+SD

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:22:50 +0000

Because:

a.)the numbers above are for the week ending October 18, 2009.
b.)the CW is being a pain in the ass with these releases and including Live numbers nobody ever sees to confuse you (3.14 million was the live #, the Live+SD number that week was 3.877 million, and the Live+7 number (included above) was BIGGER, not smaller than both: 4.62 million

Godfather: certainly the percentage increases are smaller if you compare to Live+SD instead of live, but the numbers are pretty good either way, so I wish our friends at the CW would standardize around comparing to Live+SD numbers. But, you can’t have everything!

By: Sparkle

Sparkle — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:22:03 +0000

Yay! Go Smallville!

By: The_GodfatherSJP

The_GodfatherSJP — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:17:47 +0000

Yeesh. And to think I have trouble parsing political press releases…

Love how they’re comparing it to Live Only not Live + SD. Hmmm, does that hurt your numbers a bit if you do that?

By: GEORGE 11

GEORGE 11 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:14:30 +0000

why all shows at the end has fewer number of viewers vs final numbers.
for example the vampire diaries had 4.1 million viewers in finals but in this PR they said that it were 3.14????