Prime-Time Metered Market Wednesday Ratings:
Idol Lifts Fox to a Massive Victory
Wednesday 3/23/11
Note: The overnight data now includes DVR playback until 3 a.m. local time. One year earlier it was based on Live data only. All times are ET/PT.
HH
Rtg/Shr
Fox 15.7/24
CBS 5.8/ 9
ABC 4.6/ 7
NBC 3.8/ 6
CW 1.4/ 2
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-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening (Wednesday 3/24/10):
Fox: +69, ABC: - 2, CBS: - 3, CW: -22, NBC: -27
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-Yesterday’s Winners:
American Idol (Fox), Modern Family (ABC)
-Honorable Mention:
Survivor: Redemption Island (CBS), Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
-Fading Fast:
America’s Next Top Model (CW)
-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
Minute to Win It (NBC), Shedding for the Wedding (CW), Mr. Sunshine (ABC), Off the Map (ABC)
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-Ratings Breakdown:
Fox was the dominant player of course, with another two-hour edition of American Idol beating the four competing networks combined. Idol averaged a whopping 15.7 rating/24 share in the overnights from 8-10 p.m., building by half-hour as follows:
American Idol (Fox)
8:00 p.m.: 14.2/23 (#1)
8:30 p.m.: 15.7/24 (#1)
9:00 p.m.: 16.2/24 (#1)
9:30 p.m.: 16.7/25 (#1)
My picks for the bottom three tonight: Haley Reinhart, Naima Adedapo and Thia Megia. Most likely to bid adieu: Haley Reinhart.
Second-place CBS featured still potent Survivor: Redemption Island (#2: 6.6/10), which proves that two successful shows can co-exist in one time period, a repeat of Criminal Minds (#3: 5.1/ 8), and spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (#2: 5.8/10). While Suspect Behavior did build from its parent series, solid CBS can do better in this time period next season. My personal choice would be to put Blue Bloods back in the hour.
ABC opened the evening with an original installment of underrated The Middle (#3: 5.1/ 8), followed by a repeat of The Middle (#3: 4.0/ 6) and the original 9-11 p.m. rotation of stand-out Modern Family (#2: 7.6/11), on-the-fence recent entry Mr. Sunshine (#3: 4.2/. 6), which is no better than soon-to-return Cougar Town, and struggling drama Off the Map (#3: 3.4/ 6). Comparably, retention for Mr. Sunshine out of Modern Family was only 55 percent.
Elsewhere, NBC game show Minute to Win It scored a miniscule fourth-place 2.4/ 4 in the overnights at 8 p.m., followed by a repeat of Law & Order: SVU (#4: 2.9/ 5) and an original installment of SVU, which finished first at 10 p.m. with a 6.3/11. One year earlier, Law & Order: SVU averaged a 7.3/13 on March 24, 2010 (opposite a repeat of CSI: NY on CBS).
Over at The CW, veteran America’s Next Top Model continues to bleed with a fourth-place 2.0/ 3 at 8 p.m. Comparably, that dipped by 29 percent from the 2.8/ 5 it scored in the overnights on the comparable year-ago evening. Next on The CW was flop Shedding for the Wedding at a very last-place 0.8/ 1 at 9 p.m.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat)
Source: pifeedback
Can someone explain to me the discrepancy between these two sets of ratings?
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that (for example) "The Middle" received a 5.1/6.0 and "Mr. Sunshine" got a 4.2/6.0 while the other system has "The Middle" at 2.0 and "Mr. Sunshine" at 2.2. It's frustrating to see them label "Mr. Sunshine" as a loser when it seems to be doing better than The Middle, which just happens to be one of their favourites. I love both shows, but usually when they play favourites, they still report data accurately.
I don't actually understand the system that pifeedback uses when compared to the normal stuff we see in the other tables, so that might explain the reason for my question. Any explanations and/or links to explanations would be appreciated :).
John, those numbers in the text I believe are the HH/Household
ReplyDeleteratings. The Numbers that we post in the table are the 18-49
Demographic Rating. The HH is basically everyone and the 18-49 are
just those in the 18-49 bracket.
Soin terms of Middle/Sunshine a lot more people under 18 and/or over
49 watch the show.
Oh! Thanks. That makes a lot of sense.
ReplyDeleteThere is a typo in the title...
ReplyDeleteHa, oops, we've gone back 10 years :)
ReplyDeleteFixed :)
Wednesday predictions-
ReplyDeleteMinute To Win It-should be cancelled
Shedding For The Wedding-will be cancelled
Criminal Minds-SB-likely to be cancelled
Off The Map-cancelled
Better With You-likely to be cancelled
Mr Sunshine-likely to be cancelled
Everything else that isn't already renewed will be.
Sometimes it wouldn't be bad to go back... =)
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