Originally posted by Obveeus: [QUOTE]Originally posted by TV-aholic: Well, lets put it in perspective.
Yes, let us put it in perspective. This was the top golf tournament for the US. The #1 most hyped player of all time was in contention throughout the tournament and into the final day. The tie, resulting in the playoff, was VERY well publicized ahead of time such that no golf fan, no matter how casual, could have missed the fact that this playoff was going to be showing on Monday. In essence, this was the 'perfect storm' for potential golf ratings.
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For a live sporting even that aired on a Monday Afternoon Eastern Tim, in the Morning on the West Coast, it pulled in 5 million viewers on a Cable Channel.
4.762million viewers.
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That would make it the TOP show on The CW for the Primetime Season.
No, it would not. For example, 8 episodes of ANTM last TV season topped that golf viewer number.
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At 4.7 million, it would have cracked the top 50 in last weeks ratings, besting all 3 NBA Countdown shows.
And yet the NBA topped golf in the Sunday ratings by 40+% even while golf was having its 'perfect storm'.
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Only 9 NBC regular programs did better in the ratings last week, in Primetime Yes, 'great' NBC shows like [b]Fear Itself[b] still beat it. So, even in summer rerun season, half the NBC shows topped golf absolute best cable effort.
I'm not saying that the ESPN golf number sucked, but it was the absolute 'perfect storm' situation for the golf telecast. What you just saw was that the highest possible viewer number gold could have achieved on Monday cable with absolutely perfect scenario conditions. I am unimpressed with that upper limit.
are you like a pisher alter ego or something? You are like Dawn Ostroff's kid or something...You always defend the CW even though it is a absolute joke...I wish they did better because they do have decent programming, but the fact is they don't
That would make it the TOP show on The CW for the Primetime Season.
No, it would not. For example, 8 episodes of ANTM last TV season topped that golf viewer number.
Oh, My Bad. The Front 9 Holes out ranked the entire CW season EXCEPT for 8 hours of programming
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The Front 9 Holes out ranked the entire CW season EXCEPT for 26 hours of programming. Obveeus failed to point out the 9 times that the soon-to-move-to-MyNetworkTV WWE Smackdown topped The Front 9 number as well.
I didn't add in the hours of Smallville that beat it either. I presented an example (see the word EXAMPLE in the statement) rather than listing every show and every hour with regards to which TV-aholics statement was in error. I didn't bother checking the accuracy of his claims against the various NBC shows either. I simply gave one example that his claims were wrong and labeled it as an EXAMPLE.
Thanks spotupj, for giving me some number to put it in perspective. OUCH indeed! Such a pity because it seems like those on the board who watched it, all enjoyed it. The reviews I've seen have all been positive too.
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Originally posted by TravisYanan:
THE MIDDLEMAN 0.4/1 0.2/1 524,000
Is that as bad as it looks, or is that fairly typical of ABC Family? I quite enjoyed the show and would hate to see it disappear before it had a chance to find its' feet.
It is as bad as it looks. I don't see a whole lot of ABC Family ratings but here are some points of reference:
Kyle XY's season 2 premiere brought in 2.2 million viewers, and its finale was somewhere in the mid-to-upper 1's, so the typical averages were probably in the mid-1's range, about three times as much as Middleman.
Greek typically does twice as many viewers or more as Middleman's premiere, and is notoriously strong in target demos, especially A18-24. I kind of doubt Middleman skewed that strong toward the target demos.
I believe Wildfire was also averaging about a million down the stretch of its run.
When your other original series are doubling up on it, at least, it is a bad sign. It is true that this pilot was available pre-air for free on iTunes and that it was shown two other times premiere night, but typically that doesn't end up making a very big difference.
