Looking ahead, CBS may want to think about tightening the Sunday 9 p.m. hour next season and moving Cold Case to Friday at 9 p.m. (out of Ghost Whisperer and into Numb3rs).
And what does "tighten" mean Mr. Marc? Take away a show that has performed solidly for years and still gets 12-13 million viewers and put what there on Sundays? A new show that is destined to fail like most others do? Maybe ABC should tighten their Sunday night schedule and cancel Brothers and Sisters, a show that continues, every week to falter and lose a huge portion of its lead in show?
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Of negative note, in particular, for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was a fourth-place finish in the demo. As for Desperate Housewives, don’t we all wish that Teri Hatcher’s Susan would be one of the victims in next week’s fire?
How about a negative note for the disappointing retention for Brothers and Sisters?
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Can you imagine how much worse it will be for an already terrible NBC once football season ends?
Even on the seldom nights when NBC does well, you still have to throw in your negative comments, ehh?
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Looking ahead, CBS may want to think about tightening the Sunday 9 p.m. hour next season and moving Cold Case to Friday at 9 p.m. (out of Ghost Whisperer and into Numb3rs).
This was my idea, I think I should get some credit for it.
Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: ABC is having a real problem with the football overruns. AFV was way down. 1.9 in the demo?
I'm still amazed that AFHV can pull in the kind of viewership it does when similar/identical shows (Online Nation and World's Funniest Moments) have failed to capture an audience. This is a very good example of people simply watching a show out of habit.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: I honestly think have Justin and Rebecca hook up has hurt the show. It just does not feel right, and I am a die-hard fan.
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Originally posted by strumpeace: My goodness, no matter how much hype the overhyped 'Brothers and Sisters' gets, it just cannot hang on to the already-shrinking 'Desperate Housewives' audience. A loss of 35 percent in total viewers? Ouch.
Looking ahead, CBS may want to think about tightening the Sunday 9 p.m. hour next season and moving Cold Case to Friday at 9 p.m. (out of Ghost Whisperer and into Numb3rs).
This was my idea, I think I should get some credit for it.
With this lineup, CBS should not showThe Unit and instead insert a Comedy after TAR at 9:30 to lead into Cold Case at 10pm.
The Unit is weak as it is and starting at 10:30 makes it even weaker.
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CBS and NBC shared the top spot on this football ignited Sunday, with CBS the most-watched network (1.40 million viewers above NBC) and NBC No. 1 among adults 18-49. CBS’ victory is attributed to an approximate half-hour football overrun at a mammoth 24.20 million viewers and a 7.3 rating/20 share in the 7 p.m. half hour. 60 Minutes, which began at approximately 7:30 p.m., scored a dominant 17.67 million viewers and a 4.2/11 in the demo, followed by The Amazing Race 13 (Viewers: #3, 11.68 million; A18-49: #4, 3.3/ 8 from 8:30-9:30 p.m.), Cold Case (Viewers: #3, 12.24 million; A18-49: 3.0/ 7 from 9:30-10:30 p.m.) and the first half of The Unit at a third-place 9.43 million viewers and a 2.5/ 6 in the demo at 10:30 p.m.
Originally posted by dumont: ABC Triumphs in Week 7 Winning A18-49s, CBS Takes Most Viewed Crown
At the end of Week 7 (with 4 nights of finals, and 3 nights of prelims), ABC is the top network in A18-49 with a 3.20 average, coming ahead of second-place NBC at 3.07 and third-place CBS at 2.97. FOX was fourth, Univision fifth, CW sixth and MNT last (4 nights only).
In average viewership, CBS finished first, ABC second, NBC third, FOX fourth and the mininets trailing.
Week 7(Monday-Thursday finals, Friday-Sunday prelims)
# Network A18-49 (%YOY) Millions of Viewers (%YOY)
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1. ABC 3.20 (-15%) 10.270 (-14%)
2. NBC 3.07 (same) 8.573 (+4%)
3. CBS 2.97 (-10%) 10.807 (-9%)
4. FOX 2.26 (-32%) 5.776 (-30%)
5. UNI 1.53 (-16%) 4.393 (+7%) <- 7 nights demo, 4 nights viewers
6. CW 1.12 (-12%) 2.401 (-21%)
7. MNT 0.36 (-16%) 1.055 (+2%) <- 4 nights only
YOY = Year-Over-Year increase/decrease to the same seven nights in Week 7 last year.
You can thank Katie Couric for this loss. Her election coverage averaged a mid 2 demo while ABC/NBC averaged mid to high 4's.
Yes...its my favorite show at present. I had the opportunity to interview Ken Olin last year....terrific guy.
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: I honestly think have Justin and Rebecca hook up has hurt the show. It just does not feel right, and I am a die-hard fan.
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Originally posted by strumpeace: My goodness, no matter how much hype the overhyped 'Brothers and Sisters' gets, it just cannot hang on to the already-shrinking 'Desperate Housewives' audience. A loss of 35 percent in total viewers? Ouch.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: Oh, but they are revamping Knight Rider...that should really make a difference.
I thought that the reasoning behind the KN revamp was interesting. They wanted to get the show away from the evil supervillian confrontations and back to a show about 'real people' combating more local problams. It is almost like the KN revamp is acknowledging a likely reason that Heroes is faultering.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: I honestly think have Justin and Rebecca hook up has hurt the show. It just does not feel right, and I am a die-hard fan.
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Originally posted by strumpeace: My goodness, no matter how much hype the overhyped 'Brothers and Sisters' gets, it just cannot hang on to the already-shrinking 'Desperate Housewives' audience. A loss of 35 percent in total viewers? Ouch.
I haven't been watching B&S this season, but this sounds like the ill-conceived hook-up of George and Izzie on Grey's last season...
Originally posted by KSO: B&S did better didn't it?
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ABC’s Sunday line-up -- NASCAR (Viewers: #2, 8.15 million; A18-49: #2, 2.2/ 6), a half-hour edition of America’s Funniest Home Videos (Viewers: #3, 6.62 million; A18-49: #4, 1.9/ 5),
I question ABC's logic here, NASCAR was running over 7:30. They switched it over to ESPN2 at that time to air AFHV?
Why? They should have been happy to let it go until the 8 o'clock hour when it did end.
I would assume that NASCAR is not to happy about it either. This type of tactics is why the IRL left ESPN for Versus, starting Next year. ESPN has gotten too big for itself. MLB and the NFL are about the only sports leagues that can push ESPN around.... a little.
I know you will never answer this Marc, but instead of just bashing NBC daily, how about giving us some of your ideas on what NBC should do to improve its ratings? When NBC decides to keep shows such as Knight Rider it is obvious that if they were in a stronger position they would not keep shows with such low ratings (and do you really need to tell us this EVERY SINGLE TIME THE SHOW AIRS )But they really have no other options at this point.
And as I have mentioned before, if you look at the yearly ratings in 18-49, NBC is not in nearly as bad shape as you make them out to be.
Originally posted by Adolfo: You can thank Katie Couric for this loss. Her election coverage averaged a mid 2 demo while ABC/NBC averaged mid to high 4's.
She literally chases viewers away!
CBS has the oldest viewers on broadcast TV. The post election demographics revealed that pretty much every segment of the population voted in Obama's favor except for the really old people. Is it any surprise that the CBS viewers would not want to watch TV as the election results came in?
Seriously, though, CBS really does need to do something to try and rebuild their news division.
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