With Monday a holiday, I skipped the Saturday analysis for a listing of just the raw rating results by half-hour for Feb. 17. Household rating/share is first, followed by total number of viewers (in millions) and adult 18-49 rating/share.
Saturday 2/17/07
OVERALL AVERAGES CBS 5.1/ 9 -- 7.67 million -- 1.8/ 6
NBC 4.0/ 7 -- 5.88 million -- 1.5/ 5
Fox: 3.9/ 7 -- 6.22 million -- 2.3/ 8
ABC: 3.4/ 6 -- 5.20 million -- 1.7/ 6
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8:00 p.m. CBS CSI (R) 4.5/ 8 -- 6.66 million -- 1.3/ 5
Marc, are there (reliable) data on who is home on Saturday nights? What do the HUT numbers look like and what are they watching? It surely isn't the networks. How do Saturday nights compare to others with respect to basic cable, pay cable, PPV/VOD, and DVD/VCR usage? If you and the rest of us in this forum want the networks to program Saturdays again, we need to know these things.
Perhaps the networks have done this analysis and concluded there is no money to be made with fresh scripted shows on Saturdays. They are in this business to make money. They know what they are doing, right? No. They're the dopes that didn't groom replacements for Frasier, Friends, and Seinfeld, took Lost off the air for three months, fail to capitalize on the 15 million Heroes lead out, and could not find hits to put on after Lost (2005-2006) and GA. What was I thinking. We need to do the thinking for them.
Posts: 101 | Location: Brooklyn, NY | Registered: 01 January 2007
I wonder how much it costs to produce an episode of Cops.
So, what's everyone watching tonight?
Amazing Race: All-Stars (while recording Simpsons and King of the Hill), The Apprentice, and either Crossing Jordan or Without a Trace. I haven't decided yet. Lord knows CJ needs the help, though.
Is anyone still watching that Grease show?
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ABC will win handily tonight and next week on Sunday. CBS will have to duke it out with Fox for second, while NBC will probably show gains but remain in 4th. I think Reba's finale will give the CW a boost.
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Originally posted by vlis: anybody think abc can tie cbs for second in the demo this week? what can we expect the cbs/abc demo numbers to be tonight?
Originally posted by vlis: anybody think abc can tie cbs for second in the demo this week? what can we expect the cbs/abc demo numbers to be tonight?
Well, I still think CBS will finish the year in second behind FOX, but ABC should start finishing second behind FOX much more often on a weekly basis as the season continues. Most of CBS's big events are over. ABC still has the Academy Awards and the return of DWTS. Of course, CBS will win the weeks when both are in mostly repeats. At the end of the year the gap between ABC and CBS will be maybe two tenths.
One wildcard will be how well NCAA tournament does in the demo. Will the new college ratings give the tournament a discernable boost?
I wonder if L&O: CI would be better off on Saturdays. It got 8.85m viewers in its regular slot, so I would think it could get that many and maybe more if it was on Saturdays since a rerun got 7.42m.
I just watched this week's Ugly Betty and the Class. I definitely think UB will have staying power. It's not just a one joke show that focuses on Betty's not fitting in. There are many interesting characters and several on going story lines.
The Class, which I had decided to skip for several weeks recently, seems to have gotten much better. The characters are better defined. It also seems some are gone, like the news reporter. Are others gone as well?
With the HH shares of the 4 nets adding up to less than 30%, it certainly looks like most people who were watching last night were watching something else.
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Originally posted by Time Shifter: Pretty pathetic. Nothing unusual, of course.
Marc, are there (reliable) data on who is home on Saturday nights? What do the HUT numbers look like and what are they watching? It surely isn't the networks. How do Saturday nights compare to others with respect to basic cable, pay cable, PPV/VOD, and DVD/VCR usage? If you and the rest of us in this forum want the networks to program Saturdays again, we need to know these things.
Perhaps the networks have done this analysis and concluded there is no money to be made with fresh scripted shows on Saturdays. They are in this business to make money. They know what they are doing, right? No. They're the dopes that didn't groom replacements for Frasier, Friends, and Seinfeld, took Lost off the air for three months, fail to capitalize on the 15 million Heroes lead out, and could not find hits to put on after Lost (2005-2006) and GA. What was I thinking. We need to do the thinking for them.
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