Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Nov. 27)
11/28/07 09:16 AM
By ED BARK
Belo8 piled on the ratings points Tuesday night, running up the biggest 10 p.m. newscast score of the year.
Exiting a minute early from ABC's two-hour Dancing with the Stars finale, Belo8 had a mega 16.9 Nielsen rating for its next-to-last late night November "sweeps" newscast. That equals 411,616 total D-FW homes, nearly triple the number for the nearest competitor.
For the record, NBC5 (141,265 homes), Fox4 (133,958 homes) and CBS11 (129,087 homes) finished in a virtual three-way tie for a very distant second place.
Dancing had the night's biggest haul, amassing 455,457 homes in more than doubling the crowd for any network competitor. The finale peaked in its final 15 minutes, when more than a half-million homes -- 511,476 -- tuned to the sight of Indy 500 race car champ Helio Castroneves jumping up and down with the show's trademark mirror ball trophy.
ABC's preceding A Charlie Brown Christmas also did pretty well, drawing 194,848 homes in finishing second to CBS' competing NCIS. Chuck won his time period among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, though.
Belo8's other main newscasts very nearly rolled up a second clean-cut double grand slam this month.
The ABC station won at 6 a.m. and at 5 and 6 p.m. in both total homes and among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. But it had to settle for a 6 a.m. tie with Fox4 in the 25-to-54 demo. The latter station's Good Day will take the overall sweeps crowns in both ratings measurements, though, with Belo8 a very competitive second.
Belo8 piled on the ratings points Tuesday night, running up the biggest 10 p.m. newscast score of the year.
Exiting a minute early from ABC's two-hour Dancing with the Stars finale, Belo8 had a mega 16.9 Nielsen rating for its next-to-last late night November "sweeps" newscast. That equals 411,616 total D-FW homes, nearly triple the number for the nearest competitor.
For the record, NBC5 (141,265 homes), Fox4 (133,958 homes) and CBS11 (129,087 homes) finished in a virtual three-way tie for a very distant second place.
Dancing had the night's biggest haul, amassing 455,457 homes in more than doubling the crowd for any network competitor. The finale peaked in its final 15 minutes, when more than a half-million homes -- 511,476 -- tuned to the sight of Indy 500 race car champ Helio Castroneves jumping up and down with the show's trademark mirror ball trophy.
ABC's preceding A Charlie Brown Christmas also did pretty well, drawing 194,848 homes in finishing second to CBS' competing NCIS. Chuck won his time period among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, though.
Belo8's other main newscasts very nearly rolled up a second clean-cut double grand slam this month.
The ABC station won at 6 a.m. and at 5 and 6 p.m. in both total homes and among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. But it had to settle for a 6 a.m. tie with Fox4 in the 25-to-54 demo. The latter station's Good Day will take the overall sweeps crowns in both ratings measurements, though, with Belo8 a very competitive second.
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