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Metered Market Wednesday Ratings
Idol Down But Dominant; Below Average Return for Survivor on CBS
Wednesday 2/13/13
Metered Market Results
Household
Rating/Share
Fox 8.7/14
CBS 5.2/ 9
ABC 5.0/ 8
NBC 4.0/ 7
CW 2.0// 3
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-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Wednesday 2/15/12:
CW: +150, NBC: +29, ABC: -12, CBS: -27, Fox: -29
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-Winners:
American Idol (Fox), Arrow (CW), Modern Family (ABC), CSI (CBS)
-Honorable Mention:
The Middle (ABC), Survivor: Caramoan (CBS), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), Chicago Fire (NBC)
-Losers:
Whitney (NBC), Guys With Kids (NBC), Suburgatory (ABC)
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Ratings Breakdown:
American Idol led Fox to overnight Wednesday victory, with an 8.7 rating/14 share from 8-10 p.m. (peaking at a 9.6/15 at 9:30 p.m.). And that will be more than enough to win the evening among 18-49 (and other young adult demos). But compared to the year-ago evening (11.9/19 on 2/15/12), this was down by a noticeable 27 percent. Further proof of the Idol slippage was a 14.5/22 in the overnights on the same evening in 2011. The morale of the story: Not even the arrivals of Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban can stop the bleeding.
Speaking of slippage, the latest edition of Survivor (Caramoan – Fans vs. Favorites) opened on CBS with a diluted 5.5/ 9 in the overnights from 8-9:30 p.m., which comparably is the weakest season-premiere for an edition of Survivor on record. Year-to-year, Survivor dropped by 13 percent from the opening edition of the One World edition on 2/15/12. The morale of this story: Like American Idol, there is only one place to go when you are past the full decade mark…down. As for Survivor, it is always an addiction and this season will be no exception. But some of the choices to return seem a bit strange, don’t they?
Survivor: Caramoan, which was originally a two-hour edition, led into an encore of The Big Bang Theory at a fourth-place 3.5/ 6 at 9:30 p.m. It is not that often that you hear “fourth-place” and The Big Bang Theory in the same sentence, but this was a last minute programming entry. At 10 p.m., veteran CSI perked up to a dominant 5.7/10 from 10-11 p.m., which was 63 percent above the repeat of The Big Bang Theory. One year earlier on CSI featured the arrival of Elisabeth Shue.
The standout on ABC, of course, was Modern Family, which scored a second-place 7.2/11 in the overnights at 9 p.m. (-10 percent from the year-ago evening), with growth out of freshman lead-in The Neighbors (#3: 4.3/ 7 at 8:30 p.m.) of 67 percent. Next on ABC was modest Suburgatory (#3: 4.4/ 7 at 9:30 p.m.), which held only 61 percent of the Modern Family lead-in, followed by critically acclaimed drama Nashville at a third-place 4.3/ 7. One year earlier, Revenge at 10 p.m. was considerably stronger at a 5.8/10.
Earlier in the evening on ABC was underrated The Middle (there is no better word to describe it) at a third-place 5.5/ 9, which was just one-tenth of a rating behind the 8 p.m. half-hour portion of competing Survivor: Caramoan. The moral of ABC’s Wednesday story: The net could, and should, be doing better out of The Middle and Modern Family.
Over at NBC, 8-9 p.m. sitcoms Whitney (#4: 2.6/ 4) and Guys With Kids (#4: 2.3/ 4) continue to under-perform, with erosion of an average nine percent from the year-ago combination of Whitney and short-lived Are You There, Chelsea? But veteran Law & Order: SVU rose to third overall with a 4.9/ 8 from 9-10 p.m., which was 17 percent above the 4.2/ 8 in the overnights one year earlier (when it aired at 10 p.m.). And compatible Chicago Fire finished second at 10 p.m. with a 4.7/ 8 (and retention out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of Law & Order: SVU — 5.1/ 8 — of 92 percent). See you next season, Chicago Fire.
On The CW, the just renewed combination of Arrow (#4t: 2.5/ 4) and Supernatural (#5: 1.5/ 2) built by an average of 150 percent from the year-ago combination of One Tree Hill (1.2/ 2 on 2/15/12) and Remodeled (0.4/ 1). But overnight slippage of 40 percent for Supernatural out of Arrow (which is likely to be smaller demographically) is not necessarily a “winning” performance.
Carson Daly capped off the evening for NBC with a typical 0.9/ 4 at 1:30 a.m.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Source: Marc Berman@TVMediaInsights
Metered Market Wednesday Ratings
Idol Down But Dominant; Below Average Return for Survivor on CBS
Wednesday 2/13/13
Metered Market Results
Household
Rating/Share
Fox 8.7/14
CBS 5.2/ 9
ABC 5.0/ 8
NBC 4.0/ 7
CW 2.0// 3
———-
-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Wednesday 2/15/12:
CW: +150, NBC: +29, ABC: -12, CBS: -27, Fox: -29
———-
-Winners:
American Idol (Fox), Arrow (CW), Modern Family (ABC), CSI (CBS)
-Honorable Mention:
The Middle (ABC), Survivor: Caramoan (CBS), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), Chicago Fire (NBC)
-Losers:
Whitney (NBC), Guys With Kids (NBC), Suburgatory (ABC)
———-
Ratings Breakdown:
American Idol led Fox to overnight Wednesday victory, with an 8.7 rating/14 share from 8-10 p.m. (peaking at a 9.6/15 at 9:30 p.m.). And that will be more than enough to win the evening among 18-49 (and other young adult demos). But compared to the year-ago evening (11.9/19 on 2/15/12), this was down by a noticeable 27 percent. Further proof of the Idol slippage was a 14.5/22 in the overnights on the same evening in 2011. The morale of the story: Not even the arrivals of Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban can stop the bleeding.
Speaking of slippage, the latest edition of Survivor (Caramoan – Fans vs. Favorites) opened on CBS with a diluted 5.5/ 9 in the overnights from 8-9:30 p.m., which comparably is the weakest season-premiere for an edition of Survivor on record. Year-to-year, Survivor dropped by 13 percent from the opening edition of the One World edition on 2/15/12. The morale of this story: Like American Idol, there is only one place to go when you are past the full decade mark…down. As for Survivor, it is always an addiction and this season will be no exception. But some of the choices to return seem a bit strange, don’t they?
Survivor: Caramoan, which was originally a two-hour edition, led into an encore of The Big Bang Theory at a fourth-place 3.5/ 6 at 9:30 p.m. It is not that often that you hear “fourth-place” and The Big Bang Theory in the same sentence, but this was a last minute programming entry. At 10 p.m., veteran CSI perked up to a dominant 5.7/10 from 10-11 p.m., which was 63 percent above the repeat of The Big Bang Theory. One year earlier on CSI featured the arrival of Elisabeth Shue.
The standout on ABC, of course, was Modern Family, which scored a second-place 7.2/11 in the overnights at 9 p.m. (-10 percent from the year-ago evening), with growth out of freshman lead-in The Neighbors (#3: 4.3/ 7 at 8:30 p.m.) of 67 percent. Next on ABC was modest Suburgatory (#3: 4.4/ 7 at 9:30 p.m.), which held only 61 percent of the Modern Family lead-in, followed by critically acclaimed drama Nashville at a third-place 4.3/ 7. One year earlier, Revenge at 10 p.m. was considerably stronger at a 5.8/10.
Earlier in the evening on ABC was underrated The Middle (there is no better word to describe it) at a third-place 5.5/ 9, which was just one-tenth of a rating behind the 8 p.m. half-hour portion of competing Survivor: Caramoan. The moral of ABC’s Wednesday story: The net could, and should, be doing better out of The Middle and Modern Family.
Over at NBC, 8-9 p.m. sitcoms Whitney (#4: 2.6/ 4) and Guys With Kids (#4: 2.3/ 4) continue to under-perform, with erosion of an average nine percent from the year-ago combination of Whitney and short-lived Are You There, Chelsea? But veteran Law & Order: SVU rose to third overall with a 4.9/ 8 from 9-10 p.m., which was 17 percent above the 4.2/ 8 in the overnights one year earlier (when it aired at 10 p.m.). And compatible Chicago Fire finished second at 10 p.m. with a 4.7/ 8 (and retention out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of Law & Order: SVU — 5.1/ 8 — of 92 percent). See you next season, Chicago Fire.
On The CW, the just renewed combination of Arrow (#4t: 2.5/ 4) and Supernatural (#5: 1.5/ 2) built by an average of 150 percent from the year-ago combination of One Tree Hill (1.2/ 2 on 2/15/12) and Remodeled (0.4/ 1). But overnight slippage of 40 percent for Supernatural out of Arrow (which is likely to be smaller demographically) is not necessarily a “winning” performance.
Carson Daly capped off the evening for NBC with a typical 0.9/ 4 at 1:30 a.m.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Source: Marc Berman@TVMediaInsights
He just can't hide his bitterness about Supernatural's renewal.Sorry pal!!!Supernatural is strong as ever and it's pretty sure that we won't only get a ninth season but a 10th as well :) Deal with it!!!
ReplyDeleteI swear, I read these just to see how Berman is going to slam Supernatural each week. He really hates that show.
ReplyDeleteLooking good Arrow! :)
ReplyDeleteNot a "winning" performance and yet...season 9!
ReplyDeleteMarc Berman comes across as such a pointless numpty when he talks about SPN and Arrow. Hello Marc can you say '8 year old SPN matching Freshman Arrow in the demo for 2 weeks running'
ReplyDeleteI know right. :/ I love both Arrow and SPN so I'm happy regardless but it's hilarious to see his creative ways of slamming SPN when it must frustrate him to end that it's still pulling in good numbers.
ReplyDeleteI just started coming here in the past two weeks. I usually go to tvbythenumbers, but they move a little slow. I happened upon here and read berman's comment aout SPN. I then read the reader comments about how he always does this, thought they were just complaining. They were not, I see that now. Why does he not like SPN? has he ver given a reason?
ReplyDeletesometimes I really want to just go over to his site and leave a nice 'IN YOUR FACE BITCH!' in the comments but that would so not be classy
ReplyDeleteSPN was either a 1.0 or 1.1
ReplyDeleteSupernatural ratings are great for The CW. Its amazing that show in season 8 can maintain same ratings that seasons newest hit on channel (both had 1.0 last week A18-49). Sadly I cant say the same about quality of show, Supernatural now is even worse than Charmed in it's latest seasons. And Charmed was train wreck. I'm not sure if I can watch another season of this terrible quality show which once was one of my favorite shows.
ReplyDeleteNBC needs to cancel SVU nobody watches anymore, they were supposed to be a lead in for Chicago fire but they're not.
ReplyDeleteI wish American Idol would just go away, and Survivor this year is off my list. There just has to be more 1st time people that want to play this game and I am tired of the nasty repeat players. Survivor used to be fun picking your favs, now its just a matter of who do you not like the most. YEAH for Arrow and CSI though.
ReplyDeleteWow 1.1 SPN equalling Arrow. :)
ReplyDeleteI'll repeat what I said last week. The viewers want the Winchesters and only the Winchesters, on-screen together, good with each other and being loving caring brothers. :)
Idk, he hates Supernatural for some reason.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Suburgatory is a loser with 2.2 in the 18-49 Rating.
ReplyDeleteSPN is not a show for everyone, I don't watch it so the comments mean nothing to me but if I were to take the same comment and apply it to something I dearly love I would be very irritated.
ReplyDeleteI would and Do make my comments to his pages instead of here.
He seems not to be a big fan of the whole genre.
ReplyDeleteSPN got 1 not 1.1 :)
ReplyDeleteThat happened last week too. It came up as 1.0, then was changed down to 0.9 but went back up to the 1.0 in the final ratings.
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed it happens again this week and goes back up to 1.1. :)
Supernaturals half hours ladt week were 1.0/.9 and it was bumped up in the finals to 1.0. This week they are 1.1 and 2.57 million / 1.0 and 2.37 million so theres every chance it could be adjusted up again. Here's hoping!
ReplyDeletehonestly ill be the first one to admit i didnt think Chicago fire would get this good ratings. I thought it would get canceled for sure.
ReplyDeleteThat's great news then, for it's really uplifting to see Supernatual holding its own against a new show like Arrow.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me feel proud for SPN. :)
Yes, Nashville's ratings went up again! So happy right now.
ReplyDeleteAnd suck it, Berman. SPN is doing pretty well in the ratings and it's still renewed for season nine. Deal with it aleady.
Plus, it would give him page views and make him look important. That's why I read his stuff over here.
ReplyDeleteHe hasn't really said why. I've followed him for years and have come to a couple of conclusions. First he is going by the now outdated idea that total viewers are what matters, not the demographic. Then he considers the percentage of the TOTAL audience a show retains from its lead in. Then he sets an arbitrary level as to what is acceptable retention and what is not. He doesn't look at how a show compares to the rest of the network shows. He doesn't look at how much of the 18-49 demo is retained. Supernatural gets more viewers in the 18-49 demo than any other CW show excepting Arrow and TVD. It may well be third in total viewers, that I don't watch. So by the measure of what audiences want, Supernatural delivers in spades for the CW.
ReplyDeleteThe second thing is Berman gets a bee in his bonnet about certain shows not performing well. They tend to be genre shows like Supernatural and Angel. Once he gets it in his head that the show isn't doing well enough, nothing, not ratings going up, not being the third most watched show on the network, noting changes his mind. He seems to think that some mystical show other than Supernatural would hold Arrow's ratings if it were put after Arrow. He just can't get out of his mindset.
YAY, SPN and Arrow!
ReplyDeleteSuburgatory had 2.2 on demo and it's a loser? Something is wrong with this guy.
ReplyDeleteNot sure where you're getting your data from @disqus_cN6tzTUZF9:disqus
ReplyDeleteSVU is watched by more people that watch Community, Grimm, 30 Rock, Up All Night, Deception, Smash, The New Normal, 1600 Penn, Guys with Kids, Whitney, Go On, Parks and Recreation, The Office.
They would need to cancel all those shows first.
The difference here is, whether he likes the show or not, he's wrong. SPN's ratings have actually improve dramatically since last year, and CW has NOTHING besides VD an Arrow that top it, so there is nothing that CW could or should put in its place. He started basically screaming how bad an idea putting SPN next to arrow was from the beginning, an now he's grown more quiet on the matter because proof is in the pie: SPN is CWs third top show. Its in its 8th season an still a fan favorite that wins thats won the people's choice award twice in a row. Sure, that may be its relatively smaller number of fans voting over an over again but that just shows how majorly dedicated SPN fans. When its not watched on tv, its watche in syndication on TNT. It's watched online. Its watched through itunes. Through DVR.
ReplyDeleteBerman is wrong, and as he can never admit that, he must throw barbs at it, or completely ignore it, every single week. Which is actually amusing because Arrow will get a 1.1 and SPN a 1, and he'll consider Arrow a raging success, and SPN a waste of space.
yes but SVU costs much more to produce not to mention that not only the ratings have bene dropping but the show has been suffering of a terrible image recently.
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