Nielsen suffered some kind of power outage last night and as a result we're told there will not be any Fast Nationals this morning, instead they will just publish final national numbers this afternoon. If the fast nationals wind up getting published before the final numbers, we'll post a regular overnight report.
This will cause some delays with the normal weekly ratings information as well.
We're not sure when data will begin to flow again, but we'll keep you updated.
Update (10:15a PT): everything is still delayed. Nielsen sent a note to its clients saying the cause was a power outage in its Oldsmar data center this morning. Everything is back up and running and Nielsen will process the data as soon as possible. Nielsen expects to send out another update at 4pm ET/1pm PT.
Update (1:15p PT): Sorry folks, just heard from Nielsen that none of the normal weekly info (for week ending 11/15) would be processed today due to the problems mentioned above. Nielsen said it would update us tomorrow morning as far as the weekly numbers go. So no weekly rankings or Renew/Cancel Index until at least tomorrow. I'm still not sure about numbers for last night, but will post an update (or the numbers) when I hear.
Update (2:05p PT): Monday's data isn't coming today either. This is now the equivalent of a TVBTN snow day!
Update (8:00A PT November 18): The logjam is breaking. I'm just seeing the fast national numbers for Monday night...
Update (8:30A PT November 18): Tuesday night's fast national numbers just arrived so it looks like things are finally back on track.
Conspiracy theory time! I’m betting the Castle fans will use this to excuse any drop. I mean, how can Nielsen possibly have the right data if they had a power outage???
(Of course, if Castle goes up, no one will think there could possibly be anything wrong with the numbers.)
Awwww, what am I gonna do the rest of the day? :’-( Does this mean I actually have to work now?
Dang it! I wanted to see how Heroes did! Hopefully went UP. Ehhh. And OTH & GG prolly went up too.
Julia, that’s hardly fair. I’d like to think some of us have more sense than that.
I’m just wondering when we’ll get the finals for Sunday- I can’t wait to see how Three Rivers did in the finals.
Wow Julia…cynical much!!!
It’s because so many people watched Castle, they had an outage!
this is one of the negative aspects of teh internet. people have not problem being nasty to others.
The last time there was a significant ratings delay we were waiting for Castle ratings too.
More than a coincidence?
Bummer. I’ll just have to check back later.
always when oth has aired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Michy, some of you might, but last time there was a significant delay, lots of people claimed that the ratings didn’t count.
Shuzbut! There is no category on my bingo cards for power outages!
Bill:
And this time around Chuck is not even airing…
As we guessed, everything is delayed. No cable, no network averages, nothing until “later”.
i hear the twilight zone theme music in the backround…
haha lame excuse! this is all part of the big alien conspiracy!
I bet One Tree Hill scored higher than Gossip Girl yet again, even with Gossip Girl having Lady Gaga and Hilary Duff on!
Can’t stop OTH!
*Season 8* *Season 8*
nah i bet a castle fan cut power to Nielsen HQ so that the ratings were delayed
im j/k ofcourse.. I assume julia is too….
Get rid of GG and Oth they both bring in bad ratings. Just cancel them.