Live+7 DVR Ratings: 'Modern Family' Leads Adults 18-49 Ratings, 'Revolution' Tops Viewership Gains; 'Gossip Girl' Biggest Percentage Gains in Week 7

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1. jT

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM

   @b plus “Big Bang theory almost gets 21 million! Wow! I haven’t seen high ratings like this for a Thursday night sitcom since Friends!”

   The key word is DVR vs live…Friends was the last must see tv show.

2. Lane

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM

   @Nate

   TVD did make the list last time. But it’s obvious that most fans watch it (and Arrow, and SPN) live, which isn’t a bad thing.

3. jT

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:33 AM

   The key word is DVR vs live…Friends was the last must see tv show……even with the invention of TIVO/DVR

4. jT

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM

   *COMEDY

5. jT

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:39 AM

   speaking of which, i wonder what was friends LIVE 7 dvr/tivo rating.

6. DenverDean

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM

   @b plus “Big Bang theory almost gets 21 million! Wow! I haven’t seen high ratings like this for a Thursday night sitcom since Friends!”

   Try Survivor, CSI and Grey’s Anatomy just a five or six years ago. CSI was in 28MM-30MM range for some time. GA had a much higher demo than TBBT. Survivor as well. I

7. POI

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM

   TBBT IS THE NEW FRIENDS

8. Anthony Parello (AP076)

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:42 AM

   When Friends ended its run in 2004 DVR usage levels were in the low single digits. It is impossible to guess how many folks would have taken advantage of time shifted viewing opportunities.

9. Anthony Parello (AP076)

   Posted November 27, 2012 at 10:43 AM

   @@b plus “Big Bang theory almost gets 21 million! Wow! I haven’t seen high ratings like this for a Thursday night sitcom since Friends!”

   “Try Survivor, CSI and Grey’s Anatomy just a five or six years ago. CSI was in 28MM-30MM range for some time. GA had a much higher demo than TBBT. Survivor as well.”

   I think the operative word in b plus’ comment was sitcom.

10. John

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 11:11 AM

    After that brilliant finale, I have to say Revolution deserves this fantastic increase in ratings.

11. Justin121

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 11:12 AM

    @jt

    “Friends was the last must see tv show.”

    LOST, Desperate Housewives, and Grey’s Anatomy beg to differ…

12. DougF

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 11:14 AM

    @Lane

    It really isn’t.

    Besides the top 25 in percentage increases were 40 percent or more. For argument’s sake say Supernatural had a 30 percent increase for the episode that aired that week. That’s a 0.3 post air date increase. Putting its Live+7 at 1.3. Which a 0.3 beats ever other CW show’s post air date increase.

    It’s just the fact that the majority are watching Live+SD.

13. Devin

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM

    Which numbers count? Live? Live +3, or Live +7? It seems to me that ABC is not as bad as they look when you look at DVR numbers.

14. Lane

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 12:04 PM

    @DougF

    How exactly does this contradict anything I said?

15. Lane

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 12:06 PM

    @DougF

    Oops, now I see that you’re not disagreeing with me. Sorry about that.

16. jT

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 12:47 PM

    @justin121 were you born when friends was on the air? The wide appeal was greater than all those shows combined.

    “TBBT IS THE NEW FRIENDS” The big bang theory isn’t the new friends…nothing will ever be. You posting that is like someone saying lebron james is the new Micheal jordon or justin bieber is the new Micheal jackson.

    You can make the comparison, but it’s not even close.

17. eridapo

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 12:53 PM

    @ Devin

    The only ones that count are the ones we do not see (Live+C3).

18. Patricia

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 1:11 PM

    Jippi Bones Bones Bones !!!!!!!

19. Tim

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 1:14 PM

    And Revolution is again the big winner !!!!

20. eridapo

    Posted November 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM

    http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118062666

    An analysis released Monday by trade association TVB covering the first six weeks of the 2012-13 broadcast season shows that playback on DVRs in the top 25 markets is outpacing the national average by about 25% in adults 25-54. Time-shifting accounted for an average of 24.5% of all same-day viewing in Nielsen’s Local People Meter markets vs. 19.8% on the national level.

    and

    Among genres, viewers are more likely to time-shift on the same day a program airs for comedies (27% in the big markets and 23.3% nationally) and reality shows (26.1% in the big markets and 20.7% nationally). This makes sense because comedies are shorter and therefore more conducive to squeezing into one’s schedule, while there is more of a time element connected to competition reality shows.