Comments on: Lopez Tonight Scores Big First Week Ratings

By: eli

eli — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:39:04 +0000

LEE, this post is for you. so what if the women don’t make it, like the man do? None of us really care, because at the end, You and I are not making a dollar out of these people. Is Wanda sending you a check every time she receives her? I dont think so. They make the millions, they drive the expensive cars, expensive clothes, costly houses, and you are fighting on her behalf? Let her deal with that, you solve your own problems dont bottled all this Anger…over something you have no control of. Come on, get angry because this country is going down the tube, write your senators and congressman to change the way politics are being played by a few.

By: willie

willie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:25:34 +0000

Great show! very cultural.

By: sergie

sergie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:28:45 +0000

Lee
your an idot just shut up who cares and enjoy the show, Lopez Tonight is a great show period….not the best but a great one for the 11pm hour

By: bella

bella — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:03:30 +0000

I love demi lovato
sos my idola
arista favorite
I love todas tus canciones

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:32:26 +0000

Lee, have you missed all the articles talking about the “Obama-effect” on Oprah? Because there have been many of those on this site. And while Leno/Letterman may not get big ratings, the Conan vs Letterman posts on this site generate a lot of interest. That has no reflection on anything outside of visitors to this site want to talk about it, and this site gives them an outlet. Why would you begrudge those fans that?

The bottom line is that the late-night ratings for Monday-Friday are readily available everyday, Monday-Friday, while daytime ratings are not as readily available. There are no female Monday-Friday late night talk shows. So of course there are going to be less posts.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:20:37 +0000

Julia…I’m not talking about a single specific article. I’m talking about endless Leno/Letterman as the most important thing to ever happen to TV articles, and the total ignoring of all female run talk shows. And judging by the ratings and letters, not many people are really intereted in the late night talk show battles.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:13:18 +0000

Ok, I see now. The fact that you took a blurb from someone else that wasn’t written as PR for the show means you’re sexist. Got it. It’s not that you’re withholding the info.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:09:16 +0000

actually it was available (and posted), that’s what actually started the ball rolling

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:07:32 +0000

Lee, the information you want (Wanda Syke’s ratings) is not available to Robert and Bill. If it were, it would be posted. Are you having trouble understanding that?

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:58:32 +0000

Nope, not surprising. Quite reasonable. It’s good that you are interested enough to go to the trouble of making a nice website. I only wish that people who share my interests were bothered to make a website with ratings information. But there not so here I am.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:43:53 +0000

Lee, we “realize through experience” that only ratings demonstrate which shows succeed. The “interest” displayed on a website is meaningless. By us, by you, by anyone.

As for what we post on the site; it’s a combination of what we find interesting and/or think readers will find interesting. Is that somehow surprising?

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:39:27 +0000

It is possible that you are influenced by the “interest” that people on this website seem to have about certain shows. Catering to peoples interest is sensible in a commercial website.

However I’m sure you realize through experience of which shows succeed and which fail that the “interest’ displayed in the letters page of this website is not necessarily reflective of actual interest in the general community. Basically a small number of people make a LOT of noise and can give a false inpression of what people are actually interestd in. And the people who come to this website may follow a pattern similar to the pattern in the general community. Some website visitors are very vocal while others never write anything. Catering to the vocal minority is never a good idea in the entertainment business.

If anyone listened to these loud people every science fiction show ever made would still be on the air. TSCC would be the number one show of all time!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:17:18 +0000

My observation is you’re wrong. Last Sunday and Monday the Wanda stuff was promoted on the home page. Last Tuesday the Lopez premiere was promoted and on Friday the “Lopez is doing better than Seinfeld now what?” Both shows were new. We’ve been posting Oprah’s ratings for 2 years in the syndicated numbers and for a variety of reasons including the syndicated numbers trail the broadcast numbers by a week and mostly the relative rankings never change much, we rarely promote them (because there is little interest in them).

The Soap Opera ratings have a small but loyal following. Promoting those #s doesn’t change anything but when something new comes along or sneaks out like “Lets Make a Deal” ratings we do post/promote.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:12:55 +0000

I’m sure if people look hard enough ratings for many shows can be found. But the articles that are chosen to be written and emphasized on the front page show a heavy bias. There appears to be a DESIRE that certain show are seen as more important shows and a derire that they should do well. Other shows are ignored whenever possible and there is a negaitive attitude toward them when they are mentioned.
I can’t help but notice that the “talk up as more important than it is” attitude is slanted towards male talk shows, and the “ignore whenever possible and talk down” attitude applies to female talk shows. Just an observation.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:01:09 +0000

Lee so your point is exactly that you are a conspiracy theorist even when there is no conspiracy?

The first week Wanda was on, FOX did issue ratings notes which we posted (but not a full-blown press release — if they had, we’d have posted it). For this past Saturday, FOX issued nothing at all. TBS issued the press release so we posted it. When it comes to press releases and ratings, if we get the releases we post them.

Oprah’s numbers are posted every week in the syndicated numbers. Because Oprah is syndicated her show is not part of the ” broadcast network daytime programming targeted at women” releases or the “Soap Opera ratings” which are also posted weekly. See “more ratings” in the top navigation.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:56:24 +0000

Exactly my point. Wanda gets a brief press release that you still went and edited anyway to make it even shorter and more negative. Lopez/Letterman/Obrien/Leno get CONSTANT articles trying to talk up their importance and popularity when in truth few people actually watch them. Constant pushing trying to get everyone to think that Leno at 10pm is the most important event in TV history.

And why NO mention of daytime (womens) TV in a website supposedly about TV? Oprah gets a 5 household rating which is more than the vast majority of shows on Tv. This site needs to be renamed MENS TV BY THE NUMBERS so we will know where we all stand.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:34:49 +0000

P.S. Lee is obviously a conspiracy theorist leaving the same comment on multiple posts. I wouldn’t say Mon-Fri at 11p are comparable to Saturday at 11p (there, Mad TV, and Spike Ferensten seem like the better comparisons, or SNL). But I think you missed this. The post above is a press release directly from TNT so it obviously is spun a little differently (though it also included better demo data, particularly w/18-34) than this:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/13/lopez-tonight-does-better-than-seinfeld-reruns-now-what/33643

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:09:54 +0000

You people are so pathetic with your constant pushing of male late night talk shows. You have TALKED UP Lopez tonight and all late talk shows, that actually have very few viewers, and ignored any female talk show that has many more viewers. Oprah, Ellen, The View, have MANY more viewers than most late night male talk shows.

You have very obviously been as negative as possible to Wanda Sykes, and have only given an obviously reluctant brief piece about it. You have chosen your words to make her show look bad, emphasizing the 14% drop from the premiere. All shows drop from the premiere.

Wandas show got more people than Lopez tonight (but you won’t quote directly comparable figures so that people can see that) and more than many late night shows, but you cannot bring yourself to acknowledge this can you. Your politics and sexism is showing loud and clear.

By: 5506/Orange5506

5506/Orange5506 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:33:18 +0000

@ Visan

You got that right.

By: Chicano Chronicles » Ratings Success for Lopez Tonight

Chicano Chronicles » Ratings Success for Lopez Tonight — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:53:02 +0000

[...] Tonight is off to a sold start since it’s debut last Monday. According to tvbythenumbers.com It averaged more than 1.6 million viewers and it’s really popular with young viewers. [...]

By: Visan

Visan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:48:22 +0000

Congrats to George Lopez! His show is very fun!!!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:25:10 +0000

just from the premiere. Didn’t see anything from this past Saturday night yet. And I don’t think it really falls under the same category since Lopez = Mon-Fri and Wanda = Saturday.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:06:54 +0000

Any notes on the Wanda Sykes show…. does that fall under the same category