Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for July 23, 2008
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,001,000 viewers
CNN – 698,000 viewers
MSNBC – 393,000 viewers
CNBC – 255,000 viewers
HLN – 318,000 viewers
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| Total Viewers (million) | 8.38 | 7.44 | 4.69 | 4.15 | 0.98 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.9/9 | 1.8/6 | 1.7/5 | 1.5/5 | 0.4/1 |
So You Think You Can Dance weakened slightly vs. last week, but it was still plenty strong enough to win the night going away for Fox in both viewers with 8.38 million [vs. CBS with 7.44 million] and demo adults 18-49 with a 2.9 rating / 9 share [vs. CBS with a 1.8/6].
Big Brother showed about a 10% improvement vs. last week in both viewers and demo adults, good news for CBS. Sadly for NBC, Baby Borrowers [at 9pm] continued to fall, down about 20% from last week. At a 2.0 demo rating, it’s still a win for NBC, but it is descending towards Loserville. Primetime: Crime improved on last week’s demo rating by a tick and is likely a nice demo/$ summer show for ABC.
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Fox Maintains Lead In All Categories
Even though it’s “Summer” in broadcast prime-time TV land, and the formal TV season is complete, we will continue to track the season to date (STD) results through the technical end of the prime-time broadcast season in September.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Even though the season is “officially” over, technically the ratings never stop pouring in, so we will continue to track the season to date changes from 2006-7 to 2007-8 until the actual end of the season in September.
Our chart shows broadcast network prime-time season to date average prime-time viewership for the 2007-8 season compared to the 2006-7 season.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
James Hibberd is one of my favorite writers. Not just about the television industry which he covers for The Hollywood Reporter (and formerly TV Week) and also does his own blog there called The Live Feed – he’s just one of my favorite writers period.
He’s definitely one of the smartest guys writing about the biz that either Bill or I have come across and he’s also hysterically funny at times. On top of that, for no reason it seems other than he’s just a nice guy, he’s been very helpful to us from time-to-time with various questions we’ve had. And that’s even after that time I attributed something to him that he didn’t actually say (and was kinda snarky about it, to boot).
But he definitely wrote the following in his TCA Recap:
There’s lots more, so waste no time, go read the whole thing.
Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for July 22, 2008
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 957,000 viewers
CNN – 523,000 viewers
MSNBC – 347,000 viewers
CNBC – 217,000 viewers
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Somehow Commenters Will Make This Item About Moonlight
CBS has effectively pulled the plug on Swingtown, moving it to Friday at 10pm beginning this week. It started strong, with 8.6 million viewers for its debut, and much more importantly a 2.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demo. However, by last week it had dropped to only 5.32 million viewers, and only an overnight 1.6 demo rating. Demo starved CBS was likely initially elated about the show, but now is resigned to its failure.
An amusingly accurate interpretation of CBS remarks from Tom Jicha at the Sun Sentinel:
CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said the other day that she is proud of the show but wished it had better ratings.
Translation: We thought we had something, but we were wrong.
And they’re giving Flashpoint another chance in Swingtown’s old slot Thursday at 10pm. It won its timeslot, but started weaker than Swingtown, with 8.13 million viewers, and an overnight 1.9 demo rating. It slipped to 7.12 million viewers and approximately an overnight 1.5 demo rating in its second airing. That’s not a good trend. However, CBS seems to want to give it a chance in a somewhat more viewer rich environment. I wouldn’t bet on its success there either, but CBS has little to lose by trying.
No One Surprised That Wheel of Fortune Continues at #1
Wheel of Fortune topped all other syndicated shows with a viewership of 9.95 million for the week of July 7-13, 2008.
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