Wednesday Cable Ratings: 'Espy Awards' Win Night, 'Royal Pains', 'Dallas', 'Necessary Roughness', 'Baby Daddy', 'Melissa & Joey' & More

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1. Ram510

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 3:53 PM

   Wow Wednesday’s are busy! Dallas was great last night, wish the rating were higher. But even Desperate Housewives had a slow leak with its viewers can only expect Dallas to do the same to some degree

   Melissa & Joey and Baby Daddy are great shows and ABC Family is definitely bringing them back! I just hope I don’t have to wait until next summer. A short winter run would be nice

   I figured Futurama would’ve been higher but that episode last night really was the worst so far this season hope it get better in quality and ratings. This show is too good to be cancelled

   Is this the lowest rating season of the Real World?

2. guy

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM

   so some of these were HIT because of Directv? MTV, etc.

3. Aerilyn

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 3:57 PM

   I have a question, will a show’s renewal chances be affected by the DirecTV vs. Viacom feud? Or will this be considered sort of a “special” time or something like that?

   I’m wondering because Awkward. airs on MTV tonight and I don’t want its renewal chances to be affected when it’s not the show’s fault it isn’t being broadcasted to millions of homes tonight and the ratings are likely to be down.

4. Aerilyn

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 3:59 PM

   Seriously, Nickelodeon was hit HARD. Disney is filling up the Top 100 list. Even a five minute music video made the list with over 2 million viewers. lololol

   Viacom drop the act and give in already!

5. Nathan (NR2012)

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:11 PM

   Totally agree with you @Kaylie

6. Richie

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:12 PM

   Happy to see picked off on list, cant stand barter kings such bad acting.

7. Nathan (NR2012)

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:12 PM

   I also agree with Aerilyn. Didn’t viacom know that this was going to have a negative effect on Nickelodeon, Mtv, Etc..

8. Jenna

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:25 PM

   Wow., Necessary Roughness lost a ton of the viewers and 2 tenths from it’s lead in…that can’t be good for them?

9. DallasFan

   Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:26 PM

   I wonder how dallas would if it was on network tv, any guesses?

10. Debb

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM

    Even though Nick isn’t my favorite channel, I will say that the Viacom/DirectTV dispute really hurt Nick, and the other Viacom channels. I actually feel bad for Nick. #JustSayin

11. The End

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:29 PM

    @DallasFan

    I would say cancelled. If you’re asking how well it’d do. Cable is a much better platform for the show.

12. Chixy

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:31 PM

    @Dallas Fan
    On CBS Would probably be like 3.0-3.7
    On ABC Would be like 2.3-3.0
    On NBC WOULD BE LIKE 1.9-3.5
    On CW 0.6-1.2
    On Fox 1.8-3.3

13. RHONJd

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:32 PM

    I definitely agree with @Debb. I feel bad for Nick

14. The End

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:34 PM

    @Chixy

    If you’re speaking about 18-49, you’re clearly in dreamland. I would half those numbers, and perhaps half again after a few episodes.

15. RJ

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:41 PM

    Hmmm, now that Jill is finally gone, I may come back to Royal Pains. I got sick of her saying she would leave, yet she never did. Thank god it finally happened!

16. Peter

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM

    I really don’t get the Dallas bashing EACH week.
    Since week 1 people have been saying, just watch next week it will dip to under a 1.0 , or it will settle to only 0.7 afther a few episodes.
    And here we are, 5 weeks later and it’s still doin better then some other TNT shows who DON’T have strong international sales like Dallas does.
    Look at last week, 1.250.000 it got in 18-49, that aint bad, certainly not for cable where they rerun a show several times and that’s how they turn a (bigger) profit in the end.
    And with strong international sales, Dallas is here to stay for years to come.

17. The End

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:44 PM

    @Peter

    Don’t take it personally. Dallas is renewed, worry about renewal when Season 2 is airing.

18. Bryan

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:47 PM

    So, is the no Nickelodeon due to the DIRECTV blackout? Does anyone know what the most watched show on Nick was?

19. msupdate

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:50 PM

    I’d love to see the Real World numbers.

    This had been a terribly slow season for the show so far and this latest development seems to be hurting it even more. It’s already been renewed for a 28th season, but I don’t want to see such a long running and somewhat entertaining show going down.

20. The End

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:50 PM

    I don’t think the directv thing will end anytime soon, they pay Viacom $500 million a year for their stuff, and Viacom wanted 30 percent more which according to reports would cost them $1 billion over 5 years.

    Basically Viacom got greedy, so rather than hike prices to resolve the dispute they ditched the channels.