Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Sept. 5)
09/06/07 09:58 AM
By ED BARK
Stormy weather definitely lights up the early morning news ratings. So much so that the 6 to 7 a.m. segment of Fox4's Good Day easily was the station's most-watched program Wednesday.
Good Day, which usually wins the 6 a.m. ratings battle, drew 131,522 homes in outpacing the rival news hours on NBC5 (92,553 homes), Belo8 (87,682 homes) and CBS11 (48,712 homes).
That's a total haul of 359,929 homes. On the morning before, a much calmer Tuesday, the four 6 a.m. shows drew 280,094 homes.
Fox4 also won easily at 6 a.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
It otherwise was a big night at 10 p.m. for NBC5, which rolled to comfortable wins in both ratings measurements. CBS11's far calmer, mostly crime-shorn newscast ran third in total homes despite getting Wednesday's largest lead-in audience from a CBS repeat of CSI: NY. With or without recently deposed news director Regent Ducas, the station still has much rebuilding to do.
Belo8 took the other two news competitions, at 5 and 6 p.m., with comfy wins across the board.
Stormy weather definitely lights up the early morning news ratings. So much so that the 6 to 7 a.m. segment of Fox4's Good Day easily was the station's most-watched program Wednesday.
Good Day, which usually wins the 6 a.m. ratings battle, drew 131,522 homes in outpacing the rival news hours on NBC5 (92,553 homes), Belo8 (87,682 homes) and CBS11 (48,712 homes).
That's a total haul of 359,929 homes. On the morning before, a much calmer Tuesday, the four 6 a.m. shows drew 280,094 homes.
Fox4 also won easily at 6 a.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
It otherwise was a big night at 10 p.m. for NBC5, which rolled to comfortable wins in both ratings measurements. CBS11's far calmer, mostly crime-shorn newscast ran third in total homes despite getting Wednesday's largest lead-in audience from a CBS repeat of CSI: NY. With or without recently deposed news director Regent Ducas, the station still has much rebuilding to do.
Belo8 took the other two news competitions, at 5 and 6 p.m., with comfy wins across the board.
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