Note: Any prior rating results are based on the final nationals. Since the level of DVR penetration has increased from 13 percent at this same point last year to approximately 23 percent at present, the overall results may be negatively impacted.
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-Saturday’s Winners: America’s Most Wanted (Fox)
-Saturday’s Losers (excluding repeats): The night overall.
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-Ratings Breakdown: It was a low-rated Saturday of mixed leadership, with golf on NBC first in households and total viewers, and Fox’s perennial combination of Cops and America’s Most Wanted No. 1 among adults 18-49. U.S. Open Golf on NBC averaged 6.63 million viewers and a 1.5 rating/6 share among adults 18-49 from 8-10:30 p.m., with the half-hour breakdown as follows:
U.S. Open Golf 8:00 p.m. Viewers: 6.22 million (#1), A18-49: 1.4/ 6 (#2) 8:30 p.m. Viewers: 6.28 million (#1), A18-49: 1.4/ 6 (#2) 9:00 p.m. Viewers: 6.72 million (#1), A18-49: 1.5/ 6 (#2) 9:30 p.m. Viewers: 6.97 million (#1), A18-49: 1.6/ 6 (#2) 10:00 p.m. Viewers: 6.97 million (#1), A18-49: 1.7/ 6 (#1)
That led into a repeat of My Name is Earl at 3.11 million viewers (#2) and a 1.0/ 3 among adults 18-49 (32) at 10:30 p.m.
Cops opened the evening for Fox with an average 4.06 million viewers (#2) and a first-place 1.6/ 7 among adult 18-49 from 8-9 p.m., followed by America’s Most Wanted at 5.28 million viewers (#2) and a dominant 1.8/ 7 in the demo at 9 p.m. Worth noting for America’s Most Wanted was growth of a hefty lion viewers out of Cops.
CBS aired a repeat of 48 Hours Mystery (Viewers: #3, 3.80 million; A18-49: #4, 0.7/ 3) at 8 p.m., followed by theatrical repeat The Notebook at 4.70 million viewers and a 1.2/ 5 among adults 18-49 from 9-11 p.m. Capping off this typically lackluster Saturday was a repeat of Monsters, Inc. on ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney at 3.61 million viewers (#4) and a third-place 1.2/ 5 in the demo from 8-11 p.m.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat)
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: Capping off this typically lackluster Saturday was a repeat of Monsters, Inc. on ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney at 3.61 million viewers (#4) and a third-place 1.2/ 5 in the demo from 8-11 p.m.
The rating might have been diminished somewhat by the 10-11 pm hour, which wasn't the movie Monsters Inc. (which finished up at 10:02 pm), but instead was a combo Disneyland informercial, Disney-Pixar promos and a few animated shorts, all hosted very amiably by Mr. John Goodman. Very much in the spirit of the old Wonderful World of Disney, which liked to mix promo content in with scripted.
I'm very very surprised by the golf numbers. Maybe people don't care if it's not the final round. If today the numbers will be below last year many will scratch their heads. There was already talk of playing more opens on the west coast so thet the east coast would have US Open in prime time
Originally posted by Marc Berman: Capping off this typically lackluster Saturday was a repeat of Monsters, Inc. on ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney at 3.61 million viewers (#4) and a third-place 1.2/ 5 in the demo from 8-11 p.m.
The rating might have been diminished somewhat by the 10-11 pm hour, which wasn't the movie Monsters Inc. (which finished up at 10:02 pm), but instead was a combo Disneyland informercial, Disney-Pixar promos and a few animated shorts, all hosted very amiably by Mr. John Goodman. Very much in the spirit of the old Wonderful World of Disney, which liked to mix promo content in with scripted.
I agree the last hour of programming was very much in the spirit of the Wonderful World of Disney during it's Sunday run. Although I enjoyed watching the Pixar shorts (an excellent DVD by the way) and promo material, for progamming purposes I think the material should have been spread more through the three hours rather than air after the movie from 10:02 to 11pm.
Capping off this typically lackluster Saturday was a repeat of Monsters, Inc. on ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney at 3.61 million viewers (#4) and a third-place 1.2/ 5 in the demo from 8-11 p.m.
I know of at least on airing of the movie earlier in the week. Toon Disney had Monsters Inc. on last Monday, IIRC.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: Capping off this typically lackluster Saturday was a repeat of Monsters, Inc. on ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney at 3.61 million viewers (#4) and a third-place 1.2/ 5 in the demo from 8-11 p.m.
The rating might have been diminished somewhat by the 10-11 pm hour, which wasn't the movie Monsters Inc. (which finished up at 10:02 pm), but instead was a combo Disneyland informercial, Disney-Pixar promos and a few animated shorts, all hosted very amiably by Mr. John Goodman. Very much in the spirit of the old Wonderful World of Disney, which liked to mix promo content in with scripted.
So are half-hour breakdowns available for this?
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Capping off this typically lackluster Saturday was a repeat of Monsters, Inc. on ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney at 3.61 million viewers (#4) and a third-place 1.2/ 5 in the demo from 8-11 p.m.
I know of at least on airing of the movie earlier in the week. Toon Disney had Monsters Inc. on last Monday, IIRC.
ABC has a summer strategy in play of sharing properties across their various platforms.
This weekend's Wonderful World of Disney will feature "Camp Rock", and ABC promos have been touting that it will receive its world premiere on Disney Channel on Friday, then ABC on Saturday, then ABC Family on Sunday, and then finally on ABC.com on Monday. It will be interesting to see how the ratings hold up across the Disney-ABC-ABC Family three nights of telecast windows.
