Originally posted by TV-aholic: Advertisers don't care about the Average, its about the total "eyeballs", no matter what demographic your after, it the total, not the percentages.
What has that got to do with the statement, though? It doesn't change the factuality of 'CBS is for old people' at all.
More young people watch CBS than ABC or NBC. It's not CBS's fault every age group watch their programs, including older people. Do you think CBS would be happy if the same number of young people would watch CSI but the viewing numbers would drop to 14 million beacause the older people don't watch the show? It's a nonsense
So the correct statement is "CBS is a network for young and old"
Originally posted by TV-aholic: Advertisers don't care about the Average, its about the total "eyeballs", no matter what demographic your after, it the total, not the percentages.
What has that got to do with the statement, though? It doesn't change the factuality of 'CBS is for old people' at all.
More young people watch CBS than ABC or NBC. It's not CBS's fault every age group watch their programs, including older people. Do you think CBS would be happy if the same number of young people would watch CSI but the viewing numbers would drop to 14 million beacause the older people don't watch the show? It's a nonsense
So the correct statement is "CBS is a network for young and old"
But you're not actually looking at who are the "young" people watching CBS. A lot of their 18-49s, the young people, are actually 35-49 year olds. CBS does very very poorly in 18-34s. That's why its the old person network.
-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Wednesday, April 25, 2007) NBC: +66, CW: -13, CBS: -22, ABC: -24, Fox: -43,
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Note: The fast affiliate results for Wednesday will be posted at PIFeedback by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Wednesday, April 23, 2008.
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-Yesterday’s Winners: American Idol (Fox), Deal or No Deal (NBC), Law & Order (NBC)
-Honorable Mention: Criminal Minds R (CBS)
-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats): Wife Swap (ABC), Big Brother (CBS), Supernanny (ABC), Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (CW), Men in Trees (ABC)
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-Ratings Breakdown: Before I get into the Wednesday overnight results, let me begin by talking about Carly Smithson’s exit on American Idol last night. While nothing at this point should ever be a surprise to any of us, Carly leaving before Brooke White and Jason Castro is just an abomination. While I can sort of understand the giggly teens voting for “deer in headlights” Jason, who the heck is supporting this Carly Simon wannabe? Folks…I just don’t get it. Do you?
Fox, of course, led the Wednesday overnight troops on the strength of American Idol, but the sharp year-to-year erosion stems from a two-hour edition of Idol airing on April 25, 2007. Second overall was an improved NBC, followed by CBS, ABC and the CW.
NBC opened the evening on a winning note, with the first half of a two-hour edition of Deal or No Deal at a healthy 6.6 rating/11 share in the overnights from 8-9 p.m. Second were Fox sitcoms ‘Til Death (4.2/ 7) and Back to You (4.8/ 8), followed by ABC’s Wife Swap and CBS’ Big Brother 9 tied at a 3.9/ 7 each. Last was America’s Next Top Model on the CW at a 3.2/ 6.
Speaking as a fan of ‘Til Death, JB Smoove as Kenny Westchester is an absolute hoot. If Fox grants the worthy ‘Til Death a third season, we need to see JB on a regular basis. As for Big Brother, so long Sheila. I would say that the final two, Ryan and Adam, are equally matched at this point, wouldn’t you?
Naturally, Fox’s American Idol led the 9 p.m. hour (and the night overall), with a 14.2/21 in the overnights. Second was a repeat of CBS’ Criminal Minds (6.6/10), which holds up well opposite Idol even in an encore, followed by the concluding half of NBC’s expanded Deal or No Deal (6.3/10), ABC’s below-average Supernanny (3.8/ 6), and Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious on the CW. Overall, Deal or No Deal averaged a healthy 6.4/10 from 8-10 p.m. Now that The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors has voted to create a new Emmy award category for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, I think that Howie Mandel belongs on the ballot.
NBC moved into the winner’s circle at 10 p.m., with veteran Law & Order at a 9.0/15 in the overnights. Next was a repeat of CBS’ CSI: NY (5.7/ 9), followed by ABC’s Men in Trees (3.5/ 6), which is now officially back on hiatus. Boston Legal moves into the Wednesday 10 p.m. hour on ABC next week.
Unfortunate that Til Death and B2Y are still struggling. Why couldn't they have aired after Idol is a mystery.
Season-to-Date, Weeks 1-30, Broadcasters
Ranked on A18-49 (000's of 2+ Viewers)
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1. FOX 4.3 11.300
2. CBS 3.0 10.460
2. ABC 3.0 9.140
4. NBC 2.9 8.330
5. CW 1.0 2.570
6. MNT 0.4 1.120
You might be asking yourself, 'How did the networks fare in the May Sweep last season?'
I've gone back into my files, and here are the results from last season:
2007 May Sweep Results
Ranked on A18-49 (000's of 2+ Viewers)
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FOX 4.1 10.488
ABC 3.7 10.624
CBS 3.0 10.962
NBC 2.4 7.109
CW 1.2 2.936
MNT 0.4 .934
It's interesting that The CW and ABC are the only networks that are significantly DOWN from last year's sweeps, in the season-to-date ratings for this season.
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Originally posted by pisher: Interesting, but predictable. ABC really screwed up this season. And of course screwing up is the only thing CW does well.
Haha. Right-ee-oh.
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Carly Smithson was a weak singer and a screamer. She should have been off weeks ago if you look at her performances as a whole. She was lucky to have a reprieve for a couple of weeks. Carly, Brooke and Jason were the weakest of the six. I think the abomination here was that Syesha was in the bottom two over Jason and Brooke.
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