Due to the nature of live sports programming the ratings for Fox (World Series Game 5) are approximate and subject to significant revisions in the final numbers, however, the numbers cited below are time zone adjusted and less likely to change. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.
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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 5.3 | 3.9/10 | 3.0/8 | 2.0/5 | 1.3/3 | 1.0/3 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 3.0/8 | 2.1/6 | 1.8/5 | 1.5/4 | 1.4/4 | |
| Total Viewers (million) | 17.1 | 11.47 | 14.03 | 5.56 | 3.50 | 2.16 |
Update: see finals for adjustments. Castle didn't drop, but Heroes did (a tenth, as did The Jay Leno Show) and Trauma dropped two-tenths. The Monday Night Football game aired in one of the local markets on the NBC affliate and those numbers were stripped out in the finals.
FOX got a bonus, not only did last night's game 5 take the night for FOX with an adults 18-49 rating of 5.3 and averaging 17.1 million viewers, as a bonus the Phillies won and extended the series to six games, with game six this Wednesday night. That might not sound like such a big deal but it's the first time the World Series has gone six games since 2003.
Last night's game was the highest-rated in the demo and most-viewed Game 5 since 2003 (Yankees v Marlins on 10/23/03)
Dancing with the Stars averaged a 3.3 rating with adults 18-49, down 8 percent versus last week and the lowest-rated (with adults 18-49, at least) regularly scheduled performance show ever.
Heroes scored a 2.6 rating in the overnights with adults 18-49, actually up a tenth from last Monday's preliminary 2.5 adults 18-49 rating. Trauma was actually up 11 percent to a 2.1 rating despite NBC announcing that it wouldn't be ordering additional episodes.
Castle was down to a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating versus last week's preliminary 2.5. Look for potential adjustment based on DWTS overrun.
CBS wasn't at its peak versus the World Series, but its comedies were still strong, led by The Big Bang Theory's 4.6 adults 18-49 rating.
Whether its versus a repeat of CSI: Miami or a new episode that pulled a 3.7 adults 18-49 rating, The Jay Leno Show ratings seem to stay the same. Last night's Jay Leno Show averaged a 1.3 adults 18-49 rating, just like last week.
Late night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.8/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS's LATE SHOW (0.9/4) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) finished behind CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.6/4).
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | World Series Game 5 Yankees - Phillies (Whole Game) | 5.3 | 17.10 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 3.5/9 | 9.05 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.2/8 | 16.01 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.6/7 | 6.18 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.1/3 | 2.39 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose | 3.2/8 | 8.54 |
| 9:00 | FOX | World Series Game 5 Yankees - Phillies | ||
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 4.4/11 | 13.60 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.4/8 | 16.40 | |
| NBC | Trauma | 2.1/5 | 6.23 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.0/2 | 1.92 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 4.6/11 | 12.66 |
| 10:00 | FOX | World Series Game 5 Yankees - Phillies | ||
| CBS | CSI: Miami | 3.7/10 | 12.47 | |
| ABC | Castle | 2.4/6 | 9.68 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.3/3 | 4.26 |
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All numbers are Live+SD.
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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.
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Jesus, we Castle fans just cannot catch a break.
The show was picked up for a full season. You could be in the shape Eastwick and The Forgotten are in!
I’d take House over those stupid baseball games any day. But apparently that’s just me. Great numbers for FOX.
Castle seems like a nice show, but seeing those numbers.. I’m not gonna get invested, sorry.
BBT was good last night, not particularly hilarious, but still good enough to deserve those great ratings.
Yeah, the full season pick-up WAS a break.
Interesting that Heroes seems to be trending up slightly over the last few weeks. Meanwhile I guess people were so glad Trauma was cancelled they decided to watch to celebrate
Castle fans have gotten nothing BUT breaks. This is the most coddled show on TV right now. The moment it stops being coddled, it’ll REALLY start dropping.
Fox must be pretty happy. I just hope the Yankees win on Wednesday so Bones isn’t preempted.
YAY for Heroes! Trauma is doing better which is weird…NBC is probably having second thoughts, but its expensive enough that it’ll stay cancelled.
Another Phillies win Wednesday = Fox *really* happy.
Time to get the bingo cards out?
Yesterdays episode of Heroes was not bad, and i enjoyed it.
damn! Castle is soooo good, i dont understand how it went down so much, i mean after the adjustment, im expecting a 2.2, AGAIN! i thought it got past that, but i gess not, all well im just going to enjoy my full season of castle, and who knows, weirder scenarios have happened in which a mediocre rated show was picked up, so ill hope, but i wont bet on it, unless it can get back over to a 2.5, ugh
you know what’s funny? The most despised and ribbed of the three CSI, it’s actually the highest-rated of the three.
Monday Night Football, locally last night
New Orleans: WDSU NBC 7
Atlanta: WGCL CBS 9
ABC gets exactly what it deserves with its “lowest-rated (18-49)… ever.” ABC is greedily trying to fill two hours of every Monday with DWTS, even as the contestants dwindle, and the result is a show bloated with filler. Yes, many millions of people continue to watch, but the show is depleting its “viewer capital,” so to speak — this snoozeworthiness will come back to punish them. Another issue is that after all these years, the three judges have thoroughly exhausted their collective repertoire of praise and criticism. As a result, their responses are almost as tired and predictable as the show’s ever-expanding “star” contestant choices, which are transparently contrived to tap various demographic groups. Been there, done that!
For some reason I’m not even concerned about Castle’s numbers. It’s never going to beat CSI: Miami and it would certainly not compete with baseball. Not to mention if the football game played a factor too.
The baseball was down from Sunday but still did incredibly well, ABC and CBS did well against it although I believe CBS was prempted in Atlanta for MNF so that could affect the figures, if I’m not mistaken, HIMYM was up but I think that was due to no House. CSI: Miami was down due to baseball but the demo is better than CSI and CSI: NY.
One Tree Hill is doing better than Dawn’s baby Gossip Girl but it’s likely to have been outdrawn by GG in the women 18-34 demo.
NBC just can’t catch a break. The minute it cancels Trauma, it goes over a 2 rating.
Show table added above in the post. Still waiting for hourly time zone adjusted World Series breakout
Go Heroes!!!
Heroes was pretty good last night, I like where the story is going. It seems some viewers that weren’t watching are coming back to see what’s going on. All in all a good thing.