Below is the table of top 25 syndicated shows for the week ending November 8, 2009.
Please note that the syndicated weekly results are delayed versus normal reporting. While we get the broadcast and cable ratings for the prior Monday-Sunday period every Tuesday, there is an extra week of lag time with the syndicated ratings and these numbers are not for last week, but for the week before last. So while Friday Night Smackdown! is now counted as a syndicated show and we are seeing the numbers again, they are delayed. The numbers below are for Friday November 6, not November 13.
Legend of the Seeker fans, the show's season two premiere didn't make the top 25, below, but I did a separate post on those numbers (average audience of 2.58 million viewers).
Top 25 Syndicated Shows for the week ending November 8, 2009:
| Rank | Program | Network | Day | Duration | HH Rating | Viewers (000) |
| 1 | ESPN NFL REGULAR SEASON | ESP | M...... | 227 | 8.1 | 13,150 |
| 2 | WHEEL OF FORTUNE | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 7.2 | 11,502 |
| 3 | JEOPARDY | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 5.9 | 9,144 |
| 4 | TWO-HALF MEN-SYN (AT) | WB | MTWTF.. | 30 | 4.9 | 7,780 |
| 5 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT(AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 4.7 | 6,705 |
| 6 | JUDGE JUDY (AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 4.6 | 6,557 |
| 7 | OPRAH WINFREY SHOW | CTD | MTWTF.. | 60 | 4.9 | 6,530 |
| 8 | FAMILY GUY-MF-SYN (AT) | 2/T | MTWTF.. | 30 | 3.6 | 5,361 |
| 9 | CSI NEW YORK-SYN(AT) | CTD | ......S | 60 | 3.1 | 4,605 |
| 10 | INSIDE EDITION (AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 3.2 | 4,580 |
| 11 | OFFICE-SYN (AT) | NBU | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.9 | 4,442 |
| 12 | LAW & ORDER:CI-WKL (AT) | NBU | ......S | 60 | 3.1 | 4,311 |
| 13 | Bones-SYN (AT) | 2/T | ......S | 60 | 2.7 | 4,118 |
| 14 | WHEEL OF FORTUNE WKND | CTD | ......S | 30 | 2.6 | 4,047 |
| 15 | TWO-HALF MEN WKND B (AT) | WB | ......S | 30 | 2.6 | 4,044 |
| 16 | TWO-HALF MEN WKND A (AT) | WB | ......S | 30 | 2.6 | 3,942 |
| 17 | SEINFELD-WKND (AT) | SPT | ......S | 30 | 2.6 | 3,941 |
| 18 | DR. PHIL SHOW (AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 60 | 2.9 | 3,906 |
| 19 | GEORGE LOPEZ (AT) | WB | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.6 | 3,819 |
| 20 | EVRY LVS RAYMOND-SYN(AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.6 | 3,686 |
| 21 | DR. OZ SHOW (AT) | SPT | MTWTF.. | 60 | 2.7 | 3,627 |
| 22 | SEINFELD (AT) | SPT | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.5 | 3,576 |
| 23 | WWE FRI NITE Smackdown | 2/T | ....F.. | 120 | 2.0 | 3,545 |
| 24 | LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY | DAD | MTWTF.. | 60 | 2.7 | 3,452 |
| 25 | MILLIONAIRE (AT) | DAD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.5 | 3,387 |
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Please note that the #s for Monday Night Football are the total number both for the ESPN airings and the local markets where the games are syndicated to one of the local affiliates (a rule to ensure the markets playing the game can watch them, even if they don't have ESPN). As a result Monday Night Football will be at the top of the syndicated lists until football season is over. It's sort of bogus, but since I can't break the syndicated portion out, I'm just reporting it as Nielsen does, but you can figure most of the viewing is actually directly on ESPN.
For syndicated shows which air on multiple days, the viewership shown is the average of all telecasts.
BUENA VISTA items are syndicated packages of old Disney movies. For more information click here.
DAD = Disney ABC Domestic Television, SPT= Sony Pictures Television, 2/T=Twentieth Television, ESP = ESPN, CTD = CBS Television Distribution.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Why isn’t NCIS on this lest?
I can’t believe how much I missed the info I get from this site. I proudly admit I’m a tv ratings geek. Glad you’re back. Thanks again for all the hard work you do!
does anyone have any info on the bonnie hunt show?
Nice to see The Insider nowhere in the Top 25.
I don’t get why people watch the Wheel weekend. Its just a repeat from last season.
This is the 1st week of November sweeps! and you have nothing to say? Oprah is DOWN from the previous week’s result not up…
Isn’t that worth a comment or two?
Your Title implies she is doing well when she is doing a rating’s dive at the most important time of the year, as far as income from advertisers is concerned.
Oprah is considering quitting a year early because of her poor ratings and income loss.
She made a huge effort to have shows this month that would bring her back up again. Seems that no matter what she produces a lot of people are no longer interested….
Oprah is considering “quitting” her show to move it to the cable network with her name on it. That’s so far from “Oprah is considering quitting a year early because of her poor ratings and income loss” that I can’t address your comment with a straight face. Sorry.
I can’t believe that in your top 25, there are only 4or 5 that are worth watching!
Oprah lost her audience the minute she told us “he is the one”. She forgot that middle Indpendent free thinking Americans put her on top! I stopped buying any products from her sponsors the minute she went politicing.
See ya, Oprah!!!! Finally people know who you really are!
Should have stayed out of politics.
What a dumb move
She overestimated her influence
I had some Oprah Sucks shirts made about 4 years ago and my sister and I wore them to a outdoor weekend hippy concert. I could not believe how many people loved that shirt. One guy kept raising his price to buy the shirt right off my back! I wore that shirt to a Sarah Palin event last year and it was insance how many people wanted a picture of that shirt, especially the 20-somethings.
I love wearing that shirt.
Ratings stink for Oprah and she’s getting out of the game before it gets embarrassing. Way to take the George Costanza route!
Sheesh.. No wonder why we are in the state that we are in, this is what the majority of people are watching? The only intelligent show is CSI and it’s only at number 9? Yes, Jeopardy is there, but it’s a game show, and two and a half men?…wow! It is clear to me now that half of our population are drones, and have no idea of what is going on in the world around them. These are the people that can’t keep their attention span on target long enough to understand it all I guess. Sad.
I guess haters will hate. Oprah on the other hand is still getting paid. She may be taking a risk, but with great risk comes greater rewards. Good luck, girl.
Re: Ray @ 5:12 pm
Ray, a couple of points:
1. “Jeopardy” is, unlike every other game show, an intelligent show. Except when they have the teen tournament, when the questions and categories reinforce all of the pessimism about the education and intelligence of today’s youth.
2. If you think “CSI” is an intelligent show, then I have to inform you that you are one of those people you so condescendingly described as “drones.” It’s a cop show that is utterly devoid of either mystery or suspense, to say nothing of the embarrassingly bad dialogue. “Seinfeld” and “Family Guy” are brilliant, insightful comedies. CSI is so insipid it makes “Two and a Half Men” look like “The Godfather.”
Heh. Ask Howard Stern how that worked out for him. He may have got paid upfront (more power to him) but his audience dropped drastically. I doubt his next contract will look quite so good.
Arguing about which of these shows is best, or worst, is like having a ‘muddiest pig’ contest.
Going down with Obama boat! America is on to this clown and the fools that support him.
I don’t watch any of that worthless crap. Just goes to show, a majority of the viewing audience are retards.