The View Enjoying Its Most-Watched Season Yet March 9, 2009 4:55 pm
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ABC daytime talk show The View is riding a ratings high. The talk show, featuring a panel of Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd, Joy Behar and for a few times a week series co-executive producer Barbara Walters, drew its largest audience ever on the morning after Barack Obama was elected president (6.2 million) and has maintained that momentum ever since, enjoying its most-watched season to date with an average audience of 4.2 million viewers (+20% over last season’s 3.5 million).
ABC Daytime president Brian Frons believes that the election has elevated the series, but that it has been making positive strides over the past few years:
“We used to be an internally focused show, more introspective, but now we’re more outwardly looking,” Frons said. “Rosie (former moderator O’Donnell) looked out into the society, and we have built and grown from that.
“We have a group of diverse, intelligent women who filter the news and say, ‘Here’s how we feel about it and here are some things for you to think about.’ “
Source: Variety
Heroes May Be Returning, But It’s Still in Trouble March 8, 2009 10:36 pm
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Although NBC promises the show is coming back for another season (see previous story), and insists that even season four won’t be its last, it’s time to face facts: Heroes is in deep trouble. Based just on season averages, over the course of three seasons the show has shed 5.78M viewers (-42%) and 2.3 A18-49 rating points (-38%).
But the bigger issue here is the more recent slide in viewers which has resulted in continued week-to-week series lows and an overall low viewership standing. Much more after the jump, including a full look at the ratings charts teased above. (more…)
Knight Rider Probably Not Coming Back March 8, 2009 7:33 pm
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Last Wednesday’s season finale of Knight Rider will likely serve as the show’s series finale. TV Guide is reporting that despite heavy reto0ling, the show will not be returning for a second season. Last Wednesday’s finale drew just 5.68 million viewers and a 1.7 A18-49 rating, down 23 and 32 percent, respectively from the show’s season premiere last fall (7.35M viewers and a 2.5 A18-49 rating). NBC refused comment.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Saturday, March 7, 2009 March 8, 2009 6:08 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Friday, March 6, 2009 March 7, 2009 6:38 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, March 5, 2009 March 6, 2009 5:01 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Wednesday, March 4, 2009 March 5, 2009 10:40 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Tuesday, March 3, 2009 March 4, 2009 5:09 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, March 2, 2009 March 3, 2009 4:48 pm
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There’s no doubt that one of the biggest surprises of the TV season is the performance of The Bachelor and no where is that more evident than in the ratings for last night. The show’s season finale, it’s 13th, drew an impressive 15.46 million viewers and a 5.4 rating in the key A18-49. Not only is that an episode-to-episode increase in the double-digits, but that’s an improvement over the franchise’s weakened 12th season finale in May of last year by an extraordinary 75% in viewers and 69% in A18-49 rating.
If that wasn’t amazing enough, the 10pm special, After the Final Rose (which effectively served as hour #3 due to the Bachelor’s uneasieness with his original choice) grew, drawing a record 17.47M viewers and a 6.7 A18-49 rating (that’s growth of 5% among viewers and 12% in A18-49 from hour two of The Bachelor finale).
Even though ABC had a dominant performance, there was still room for the night’s number two network, CBS. The always consistent comedy and CSI: Miami line-up put the network placed second in households, viewers and adults 18-49. Worth noting is that the season three premiere of Rules of Engagement saw only a slight loss of viewership (although its decline in A18-49 rating was slightly more concerning at low double-digits).
Fox finished in third with a special two-hour edition of 24. I’d say the results were mixed. The show did well, but it still shed a few viewers from the week prior. Let’s put it this way, when ABC did their special ‘movie event’ type Brothers & Sisters episode on Sunday night, it resulted in a double-digit increase for the program. So Fox no doubt were hoping for a slightly better performance.
Moving to NBC…boy, where to begin? The network is just struggling on Monday night’s. The once reliable and buzz-worthy series Heroes is a shadow of its former self. It just barely managed to draw over 7 million viewers for the second week in the row, teetering on series lows, and lost more steam in the key A18-49 demo, posting a 3.2 rating (down 6%). I think I’m going to go ahead and put together a feature on the show to be posted on the site later in the week. The show’s incredible loss of viewership, and in such a short amount of time, simply can no longer be ignored.
Medium did better (in terms of overall viewership), but was hurt by direct competition with Bachelor, shedding more than 1 million viewers from the week prior.
The CW closed out the evening with barely viewed repeats of Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill.
Full ratings and breakdown’s, including week-to-week comparisons, etc., follow after the jump.
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Fallon Has Strong Return to Late-Night TV March 3, 2009 4:06 pm
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Jimmy Fallon’s return to late-night TV drew strong ratings last night. The Monday night debut of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon drew a 2.3/8 HH rating/share in metered-market households. That’s the highest rating for the franchise since January 2006.
In terms of previous performances, it was up 35% over the time slot’s previous season-to-date average (1.7 rating) and Fallon’s 55% retention from his Leno lead-in was slightly better than the 46% average lead-in for the season-to-date.
Also important, Fallon out-rated all his competition, including CBS’s Ferguson (1.7) and he beat Kimmel in the 12:30am head-to-head matchup (2.7 vs. 2.3 for Kimmel).
Source: TV Week
Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, March 1, 2009 March 2, 2009 8:11 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Saturday, February 28, 2009 March 1, 2009 6:59 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Friday, February 27, 2009 February 28, 2009 5:49 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, February 26, 2009 February 27, 2009 4:12 pm
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American Idol’s second elimination episode led Fox to a win last night, but it wasn’t as dominate a performance as one may have suspected and the episode drew a season-low 20.66 million viewers. That was a decline of 17% (among viewers) from last week’s first elimination episode, and 21% in adults 18-49 rating.
Following American Idol was an original episode of Hell’s Kitchen which managed to post better retention levels than the last time it aired out of an episode of American Idol.
In second place was CBS, whose best performance of the night was among households, where it just barely lost out to Fox (8.8 vs. an 8.7 rating). The network was paced by the night’s second-most watched show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which with Grey’s Anatomy in repeat, managed a slight increase in viewers (+5%). The show underperformed in A18-49 rating, however, tying with Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen with a 4.4 rating for the hour.
ABC aired an almost full night of repeats (Ugly Betty was new), but still managed a third place finish (ahead of NBC) among households and viewers.
Top Chef Season Five Finale Second-Highest-Rated Episode Ever February 27, 2009 2:36 pm
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UPDATE: I’ve added the Bravo press release, which I missed earlier, and updated the article to reflect a more complete ratings picture.
The original article follows below.
Wednesday’s Top Chef season five finale on Bravo drew a 2.5/4 HH rating/share, 3.74 million viewers and a 2.1/6 adults 18-49 rating/share, becoming the show’s second-highest-rated episode. The episode grew 11% over last year’s finale and was just one-tenth of a point behind season 2’s record high. The 2.1 A18-49 rating translates to 2.77 million viewers in the demo, making for an incredibly impressive 74% of its total audience.
Here’s a bit more from the Bravo press release:
This season, “Top Chef: New York” averaged 2.14 million adults 18-49 and 3.02 million total viewers. Versus season four, the show is up 18 percent in adults 18-49 (vs. 1.81 million) and 19 percent in total viewers (vs. 2.54 million). Season-to-date, the series ranks No.1 for all cable entertainment in its Wednesday 10 p.m. time period among adults 18-49 and total viewers, and with the finale, the series also marked its fifth consecutive week of gains in those demographics.
The full press release, which also includes data for The Real Housewives of Orange County, follows after the jump. (more…)
Tiger Woods Return to Golf Draws Record Audience for Golf Channel February 27, 2009 1:41 pm
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Tiger Woods fans weren’t the only ones happy about the return of the golfer after a lengthy off-season due to injury/surgery. The golfer’s return to competition on Wednesday at the Accenture Match Play Championship generated a 1.8 rating for the Golf Channel. The network drew an average of 1.7 million viewers, the most for any round of a tournament it has televised.
Web traffic was high as well, with GolfChannel.com recording a record 3.3 million page views and PGATour.com nearly 24 million page views.
Source: NY Times
Broadcast TV Ratings for Wednesday, February 25, 2009 February 26, 2009 1:18 pm
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Fox’s two-hour edition of American Idol blew away the competition, with its average audience of 24.25 million viewers beating the combined audience of its next three competitors (CBS, ABC and NBC — 24.07M) and nearly all four of the remaining major networks (including The CW it barely lost out 24.81M vs. 24.25M).
Now that’s what you call a dominant performance.
Despite being very far back in second, CBS’s two original programs, Criminal Minds at 9:00pm and CSI: NY at 10:00pm, managed to either stay firm against the ‘Idol’ competition (in the case of Criminal Minds which dipped just 4% from last week’s total audience) or improve slightly against its aired competition (CSI: NY was up single digits and the most-watched program at 10:00pm).
ABC was hurt most on a week-to-week basis with the added competition at the 9:00pm hour by way of American Idol. Lost, which hit season high’s last week, dipped back down by double-digits (although its ratings may change some when the finals are released–UPDATE below). Life on Mars was flat from the week prior (but again, we won’t really know the show’s true performance until the final nationals are released).
Note: Finals put Lost at a 5.9/9 HH rating/share, 10.05M viewers and a 4.4/11 A18-49 rating/share. That’s better than the fast affiliates, but not by too much. The finals for Life on Mars were a 3.2/5 HH rating/share, 4.88M viewers and a 1.7/5 A18-49 rating/share. That was much worse than the fast affiliates.
Over on NBC, the network made the correct call in airing an hour of what normally would have been the second hour of Tuesday night’s Biggest Loser at 8:00pm. While the show was below average, it proved to be a solid secondary option against American Idol and improved upon last week’s time slot performance (an original episode of Knight Rider) by 64% among viewers and a whopping 120% in the demo, yet another indication at the poor performance of Knight Rider.
Biggest Loser led into an original episode of struggling Life. The show failed to reach 5 million viewers, but, surprisingly, showed some week-to-week growth among A18-49 (+13%). It’s performance in the demo was still weak (a 1.7 rating), but it’s certainly worth noting that the show is up 31% in the demo over the last three weeks.
Rounding out the evening, The CW aired low-performing repeats of Privileged and 90210, with neither show managing to top 1 million viewers. Yes, that’s pathetic.
Full ratings and breakdown’s, including week-to-week comparisons, etc., follow after the jump.
President Obama Draws 52.37 Million Viewers February 25, 2009 7:41 pm
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President Obama’s address to congress last night drew a total audience of 52.37 million viewers on 10 networks (broadcast and cable). While well below President Clinton’s first address to congress in 1993 (66.9 million), it’s a good deal above both President Bush’s first (39.79M) and last (37.52M) address’s.
It’s also 6% above the audience tune-in for the President’s first press conference last week (49.46M).
Broadcast TV Ratings for Tuesday, February 24, 2009 February 25, 2009 7:18 pm
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President Obama’s address to congress — which aired from 9:00 pm to a little past 10:00 pm ET — was far and away the most watched program on the night. The address drew a 21.4 HH rating, 33.62 million viewers and a 9.9 A18-49 rating on the four major broadcast nets ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. When Univision is added into the mix, the total viewership rises to 37.11 million viewers and a 11.3 A18-49 rating for the 9-10pm time period.
The remaining minutes of the address, post-address analysis and the Republican response drew an average 19.5 HH rating, 31.31M viewers and a 9.1 A18-49 rating from 10:00-10:30pm on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.
In terms of original programming, both CBS and NBC led the way at 8:00pm, with CBS’s NCIS drawing the most viewers and NBC’s Biggest Loser the most viewers in the A18-49 demo.
Click through the jump to see the rest of the night’s results. (more…)
Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, February 23, 2009 February 24, 2009 7:31 pm
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Academy Awards Improve Over Last Year’s Record Low February 23, 2009 8:42 pm
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UPDATED ON 2/24/2009 @ 7:00pm
Here are the final national numbers:
20.6/31 HH rating/share, 36.31M viewers and a 12.1/19 A18-49 rating/share. There wasn’t much difference in the time-zone adjusted fast nationals and final nationals, but I’ve gone ahead and edited the information in the article below to reflect the changes. All numbers are based on final national data.
Good news for ABC. Sunday night’s telecast of the 81st Annual Academy Awards improved upon last year’s record low. The telecast drew 36.31 million viewers, an increase of 13% or 4.30 million over last year’s record low of 32.01 million viewers.
The program improved in the key A18-49 demo as well, garnering a 12.1 rating (+13% over last year’s 10.7 rating) as well as among households where it scored a 20.6 rating (+10% over last year’s 18.7 rating).
Earlier in the evening, the prime time Barbara Walters special drew a 7.3/12 HH rating/share, 11.55 million viewers and a 3.1/9 A18-49 rating/share.
Barbara Walters Special (2/24/2008 in parenthesis):
Households – 7.7/13 (7.3/12) [-5%]
Viewers – 11.69M (11.55M) [-1%/-0.14M]
Adults 18-49 – 3.2/9 (3.1/9) [-3%]
And leading into the Oscars was Oscars 2009 Red Carpet Special, which drew a 14.5/23 HH rating/share, 24.36M viewers and a 7.2/19 A18-49 rating/share.
2009 Oscars Red Carpet Special (2/24/2008 in parenthesis):
Households – 13.3/21 (14.5/23) [+9%]
Viewers – 21.54M (24.36M) [+13%/+2.82M]
Adults 18-49 – 6.3/17 (7.2/19) [+14%]
Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, February 22, 2009 February 23, 2009 3:36 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Saturday, February 21, 2009 February 22, 2009 5:19 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Friday, February 20, 2009 February 21, 2009 5:54 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, February 19, 2009 February 20, 2009 5:34 pm
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