Prime-Time Ratings:
Monday 5/26/08

The following results are based on the fast affiliate ratings (Live Plus Same Day data)

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 7.74 million, ABC: 5.25, NBC: 5.21, Fox: 4.86, CW: 1.33

-Adults 18-49:
CBS: 2.4 rating/7 share, ABC: 1.9/ 5, Fox: 1.8/ 5, NBC: 1.7/ 5, CW: 0.5/ 1

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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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-Yesterday’s Winners:
Two and a Half Men R (CBS), Rules of Engagement R (CBS)

-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats):
The Bachelorette (ABC), Dateline (NBC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
CBS led the troops on this typically mundane Memorial Day Monday, with a first-place finish in total viewers and adults 18-49 care of its repeat combination of The Big Bang Theory (Viewers: #1, 6.39 million; A18-49: #1, 2.0 rating/6 share), How I Met Your Mother (Viewers: #1, 6.70 million; A18-49: #1, 2.3/ 7), Two and a Half Men (Viewers: #1, 10.69 million; A18-49: #1, 3.3/ 8), Rules of Engagement (Viewers: #1, 8.45 million; A18-49: #1, 2.8/ 7) and CSI: Miami (Viewers: #1, 7.11 million; A18-49: #2, 2.0/ 5).

Next was ABC, with a repeat of Vacation Swap (Viewers: #3, 4.67 million; A18-49: #4, 1.5/ 4) and a two-hour edition of The Bachelorette, which averaged 5.54 million viewers (#2) and a 2.0/ 5 (#2) among adults 18-49 from 9-11 p.m. Take a look at the half-hour breakdown:

The Bachelorette (ABC)
9:00 p.m. Viewers: 5.06 million (#3), A18-49: 1.8/ 5 (#3)
9:30 p.m. Viewers: 5.49 million (#3), A18-49: 2.0/ 5 (#3)
10:00 p.m. Viewers: 5.74 million (#2), A18-49: 2.1/ 6 (#1t)
10:30 p.m. Viewers: 5.86 million (#2), A18-49: 2.2/ 6 (#1)

NBC aired a two-hour repeat edition of American Gladiators (Viewers: #2, 5.05 million; A18-49: #3t, 1.7/ 5 from 8-10 p.m.) and Dateline, with finished last at 10 p.m. with 5.54 million viewers and a 1.7/ 5 among adults 18-49. Fox ran a two-hour encore telecast of So You Think You Can Dance (Viewers: #4, 4.86 million; A18-49: #3, 1.8/ 5). And the CW capped off the evening with repeats of Gossip Girl (Viewers: #5, 1.44 million; A18-49: #5, 0.6/ 2) and One Tree Hill (Viewers: #5, 1.22 million; A18-49: #5, 0.5/ 1). Better get used to the word repeat…its going to be a long summer!

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

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The Bachelorette (ABC)
9:00 p.m. Viewers: 5.06 million (#3), A18-49: 1.8/ 5 (#3)
9:30 p.m. Viewers: 5.49 million (#3), A18-49: 2.0/ 5 (#3)
10:00 p.m. Viewers: 5.74 million (#2), A18-49: 2.1/ 6 (#1t)
10:30 p.m. Viewers: 5.86 million (#2), A18-49: 2.2/ 6 (#1)

Those are pretty bad numbers for the show.

I wouldn't be surprised if the repeat of American Gladiators beat The Bachelorette during the 9pm hour.

Nice numbers from 2.5 Men and Rules..., expcially for a Holiday evening.

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Um... I'm pretty sure that American Gladiators was new last night and that both that and Dateline were both 90 minutes...

I wonder if the BIG BANG THEORY was a rerun of a post strike episode or one of the fall episodes...that leads to the question how many times can you rerun these episodes?

CBS really should have found a way to make a KID NATION 2 and run that during the summer. It would have done well.

Also I wonder what happened to that reality show that they were going to run where they were going to have people "punked" so to speak. It was announced during the strike but have not heard anything about it since...

It was a pre-strike episode. Not bad for an episode that was being shown for about the 4th or 5th time.

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Originally posted by A.C.:
I wonder if the BIG BANG THEORY was a rerun of a post strike episode or one of the fall episodes...that leads to the question how many times can you rerun these episodes?

CBS really should have found a way to make a KID NATION 2 and run that during the summer. It would have done well.

Also I wonder what happened to that reality show that they were going to run where they were going to have people "punked" so to speak. It was announced during the strike but have not heard anything about it since...

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Originally posted by Legends:
Um... I'm pretty sure that American Gladiators was new last night and that both that and Dateline were both 90 minutes...

Unless something got changed up that was the set schedule for the night

http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/56110162/m/728...=896107321#896107321

From Medialife:

CBS was first again at 9 p.m. with a 3.0 for repeats of “Two and a Half Men” and “Rules of Engagement,” while ABC and Fox tied for second at 1.9, ABC for the first half of “The Bachelorette” and Fox for another hour of “Dance.” NBC was fourth with a 1.8 for the last half hour of “Gladiators” (2.1) and the first 30 minutes of “Dateline” (1.4), Univision fifth with a 1.7 for “Fuego en la Sangre” and CW sixth with a 0.5 for a “One Tree Hill” rerun.

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Originally posted by Zedman2:
From Medialife:

CBS was first again at 9 p.m. with a 3.0 for repeats of “Two and a Half Men” and “Rules of Engagement,” while ABC and Fox tied for second at 1.9, ABC for the first half of “The Bachelorette” and Fox for another hour of “Dance.” NBC was fourth with a 1.8 for the last half hour of “Gladiators” (2.1) and the first 30 minutes of “Dateline” (1.4), Univision fifth with a 1.7 for “Fuego en la Sangre” and CW sixth with a 0.5 for a “One Tree Hill” rerun.

I guess if someone actually watched these shows, we would know for sure.

AG was new. I know beacause i wathced it. And it was 1 hour and a half

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Originally posted by robert:
I know beacause i wathced it.

Don't get used to it.

Now that there is no compatition for AG it is up alittle.

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Originally posted by RoyBoyCF:

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Originally posted by robert:
I know beacause i wathced it.

Don't get used to it.

What's that supposed to mean? I doubt NBC will pull the show. I mean 5-6 million during the summer is not horrible for NBC, they are used with those numbers in the fall season

From Sportsillistrated.com

It looks like, according to preliminary numbers, that the 2008 Indianapolis 500 rose in the ratings from its 2007 telecast.

This years afternnon race scored a 5.2 HH Rating, up from a 4.8 from last year. That may push it a head of NASCAR's Primetime race, of the same day. that averaged about 7.5 million viewers.

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Originally posted by robert:

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Originally posted by RoyBoyCF:

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Originally posted by robert:
I know beacause i wathced it.

Don't get used to it.

What's that supposed to mean? I doubt NBC will pull the show. I mean 5-6 million during the summer is not horrible for NBC, they are used with those numbers in the fall season

Ya,

I highly doubt the NBC will take it off the air. It is one of ther highest rated shows right now.