Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Dec. 19)
12/20/07 09:37 AM
By ED BARK
Wednesday's late-starting, down-to-the-wire Mavericks win over Phoenix kept home screens glowing in D-FW.
Shown on both TXA21 and ESPN, the game averaged a combined 211,897 D-FW homes between 8:45 and 11:15 p.m. A majority (129,087) preferred the pro-Mavs play-by-play on TXA21. But those who dined over on ESPN were treated to some consistently stinging commentary from ex-Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy, who called both Devin Harris and Amare Stoudemire floppers who shouldn't get many if any charging calls in their favor.
Elsewhere, two locally produced Belo8 Christmas specials were mostly cold-shouldered by viewers. An 8 p.m. "Why Guy" half-hour, starring Mike Castellucci, had the better of it with 87,682 total homes and 31,534 viewers in the advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-old demographic. A following Family First special, anchored by John McCaa and Gloria Campos, slumped to 46,276 homes and just 6,307 viewers in the 18-49 age group.
At 7 p.m., the third night of ABC's big money game show Duel averaged 119,344 homes to beat the competing third night of NBC's Clash of the Choirs (98,642 homes in its first half-hour and 116,909 homes for the entire two hours).
Neither newcomer could beat CBS' pair of Frosty the Snowman evergreens in total homes. But Clash prevailed among 18-to-49-year-olds, with Duel dropping all the way to fourth.
Capitalizing on another big lead-in advantage, this time from CSI: NY, CBS11 topped the 10 p.m. newscast ratings in total homes for the second time this week. Belo8 ran a close second after nearly tripling its audience from a puny ABC lead-in (A Holiday Celebration at Ford's Theatre). Fox4 and Belo8 tied at 10 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 also continued its strong run at 6 a.m., scoring twin wins over NBC5, which lately has perked up a bit. And the 7 to 9 a.m. portion of Good Day outdrew the competing network morning shows in both measurements for the ninth time in 10 weekdays.
Belo8 resumed its winning ways at 5 and 6 p.m. by running the table.
Wednesday's late-starting, down-to-the-wire Mavericks win over Phoenix kept home screens glowing in D-FW.
Shown on both TXA21 and ESPN, the game averaged a combined 211,897 D-FW homes between 8:45 and 11:15 p.m. A majority (129,087) preferred the pro-Mavs play-by-play on TXA21. But those who dined over on ESPN were treated to some consistently stinging commentary from ex-Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy, who called both Devin Harris and Amare Stoudemire floppers who shouldn't get many if any charging calls in their favor.
Elsewhere, two locally produced Belo8 Christmas specials were mostly cold-shouldered by viewers. An 8 p.m. "Why Guy" half-hour, starring Mike Castellucci, had the better of it with 87,682 total homes and 31,534 viewers in the advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-old demographic. A following Family First special, anchored by John McCaa and Gloria Campos, slumped to 46,276 homes and just 6,307 viewers in the 18-49 age group.
At 7 p.m., the third night of ABC's big money game show Duel averaged 119,344 homes to beat the competing third night of NBC's Clash of the Choirs (98,642 homes in its first half-hour and 116,909 homes for the entire two hours).
Neither newcomer could beat CBS' pair of Frosty the Snowman evergreens in total homes. But Clash prevailed among 18-to-49-year-olds, with Duel dropping all the way to fourth.
Capitalizing on another big lead-in advantage, this time from CSI: NY, CBS11 topped the 10 p.m. newscast ratings in total homes for the second time this week. Belo8 ran a close second after nearly tripling its audience from a puny ABC lead-in (A Holiday Celebration at Ford's Theatre). Fox4 and Belo8 tied at 10 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 also continued its strong run at 6 a.m., scoring twin wins over NBC5, which lately has perked up a bit. And the 7 to 9 a.m. portion of Good Day outdrew the competing network morning shows in both measurements for the ninth time in 10 weekdays.
Belo8 resumed its winning ways at 5 and 6 p.m. by running the table.
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