My 2008 November Sweep Prediction is:
NET A18-49 (millions of 2+ Viewers)
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ABC 3.1 10.450
CBS 3.2 11.450
NBC 2.8 7.580
FOX 2.7 6.410
UNI 1.8 4.420
CW 1.0 2.190
MNT 0.6 1.400
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My 2008 November Sweep Prediction is:
NET A18-49 (millions of 2+ Viewers)
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CBS 3.57 12.154
FOX 3.26 8.548
ABC 3.06 10.389
NBC 2.89 7.871
UNI 1.75 4.069
CW 1.33 2.969
MNT 0.50 1.352
ABC Wins A18-49 in November Sweep; CBS First in Households & P2+ Viewers I'M STILL AWAITING UNIVISION FINALS FOR THE LAST MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF THE SWEEP BEFORE SCORING THE GAME
The 2008 November Sweep is over, and ABC has now won four consecutive November Sweeps in the A18-49 measure that advertisers value the most. Helped out by some well skedded stunts and strong series performance, the Alphabet won with an average of 3.21 in A18-49, while CBS finished second with a 3.07 average, NBC finished in third place with 2.81, and FOX finished fourth with 2.70. At the bottom are the mininets starting with Univision finishing at 1.56 (27 nights only), The CW ending the Sweep with a 0.91 A18-49 average, and MyNetworkTV in last averaging 0.60 in A18-49.
In households and viewers, CBS finished first, with ABC second, NBC third, FOX fourth, Univision fifth, The CW sixth and MyNetworkTV last in seventh.
MyNetworkTV and Univision are the only two networks showing any year-over-year improvement. MyNetworkTV is up +41% in A18-49, up +49% in households, and up +61% in viewers from last year. Univision finished up 3% in viewers from last year. All other networks finished down from last year, with The CW experiencing a triple down, showing the worst year-over-year fall-off in A18-49 demo (down -17%), households (down -23%) and in viewers (down -26%).
Overall for the seven networks, the A18-49 demo was down -10% from last year, households were down -7% and viewers were down -6%.
The data for this and last year are all final Nielsen numbers except for Univision network (the numbers over last Monday and Tuesday are FAST Nationals, and Wednesday numbers are not yet available). All Sweep calculations incorporate Nielsen final numbers for primetime programming, Monday to Saturday 8-11 pm, and Sunday 7-11 pm. For daytime over-runs into primetime and primetime run-pasts into latenight (e.g. sports coverage, award shows), only the primetime portion of the program numbers have been factored in. For networks that split programs into multiple segments of sustaining and non-sustaining coverage, the rating for the sustaining portion applies to the entire program broadcast.
Originally posted by dumont: ABC Wins A18-49 in November Sweep; CBS First in Households & P2+ Viewers I'M STILL AWAITING UNIVISION FINALS FOR THE LAST MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF THE SWEEP BEFORE SCORING THE GAME
November 2008 Sweep Prediction Game...And the Winner Is...
Just like it was with the seven networks (including Univision for the first time), it was a very close race amongst the PIfeedback mob. When you look at the results, notice how dead on the mob was when it come to predicting MyNetworkTV…dead-on in A18-49 (actual 0.6 vs. mob 0.6) and only 118,000 viewers off the final total (1.688 million actual vs. 1.570 million mob).
For the first time ever, we have a tie in the Sweep Prediction Game. Just like ABC and CBS nearly ended in a tie this November, two participants ended up with a mix of predictions that when all the scoring was tabulated ended up in a dead heat.
So there is a new Sweepmaster to welcome to the club, together with a second-time winner of the Sweep Prediction Game. There are now four certified holders of the Golden Broom.
Here is the scoring network by network, with the roll-up and final standings at the very end.
The new Sweepmaster and the second time winner, and the co-holders of the Golden Broom are...(drum roll)....
********** *zedman2 * *tvfan300* **********
The standings after four Sweeps Prediction Games:
February 2008 - zedman2 May 2008 - dumont July 2008 - mushu_jj November 2008 – zedman2 & tvfan300 (tie)
See you all soon again for the February Sweep (in March 2009), and then the May Sweep (in April/May 2009) and July Sweep next year…in the space of five months, there will be three Sweeps!
Zedman2 should consult to Madison Avenue, if not already doing so...his predictions have a 'Mad Men' zen of accuracy in every game so far...zedman2 was 1st twice in February and November, 3rd in May, and 6th in July.
If Diane Christensen ran a network other than Mr. Chayefsky's fictional UBS, I'm sure she would find a way to have someone like zedman2 around the table to counsel her towards one Sweep triumph after another.
May 2008
