Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., May 18) -- big numbers for Idol, bad body blow for WFAA8
05/19/10 11:49 AM
By ED BARK
Cool's Casey James looks to be in critical condition as far as making next week's Final Two on American Idol.
But the show marched on in the D-FW Nielsen ratings, drawing 393,604 viewers in the 7 p.m. hour in smacking down competition from ABC's Dancing with the Stars results show (271,452 viewers watched Chad Ochocinco take a walk) and CBS' NCIS (257,879 viewers).
ABC's penultimate episode of Lost took over at 8 p.m., drawing 312,170 viewers to hold off both CBS' NCIS: Los Angeles (251,093 viewers) and Fox's Glee (237,521 viewers).
CBS' The Good Wife (217,162 viewers) won the 9 p.m. hour, besting ABC's season finale of V (176,444 viewers).
Idol also won its time slot among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, as did Lost. But there was a shakeup at 9 p.m., where V led the parade, followed by NBC's Parenthood, The Good Wife and Fox4's local news.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the closing half-hour of the Texas Rangers 8-7 win over the Angels had a nice-sized 196,803 total viewers while ESPN's competing Game 2 of the Celtics-Magic Eastern Conference Finals drew 176,444 viewers in its closely contested last 30 minutes.
WFAA8 had a deflating day in the local news derby competitions, particularly in the still very close battle for 10 p.m. ratings supremacy.
CBS11 dominated in total viewers with 264,666 while WFAA8 ran a distant third (142,512 viewers) behind runner-up NBC5 (156,085 viewers).
It was worse for WFAA8 among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. CBS11 again won by a wide margin while WFAA8 fell to fourth despite solid ratings in that demographic from its V lead-in.
NBC5 won at 6 a.m. in both ratings measurements while WFAA8 showed some life by running a close second in total viewers (ahead of Fox4) and tying for second place with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 scored in the early evening news competitions, running the table at 6 p.m. and taking first at 5 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic. NBC5 had the total viewers gold at 5 p.m.
Cool's Casey James looks to be in critical condition as far as making next week's Final Two on American Idol.
But the show marched on in the D-FW Nielsen ratings, drawing 393,604 viewers in the 7 p.m. hour in smacking down competition from ABC's Dancing with the Stars results show (271,452 viewers watched Chad Ochocinco take a walk) and CBS' NCIS (257,879 viewers).
ABC's penultimate episode of Lost took over at 8 p.m., drawing 312,170 viewers to hold off both CBS' NCIS: Los Angeles (251,093 viewers) and Fox's Glee (237,521 viewers).
CBS' The Good Wife (217,162 viewers) won the 9 p.m. hour, besting ABC's season finale of V (176,444 viewers).
Idol also won its time slot among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, as did Lost. But there was a shakeup at 9 p.m., where V led the parade, followed by NBC's Parenthood, The Good Wife and Fox4's local news.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the closing half-hour of the Texas Rangers 8-7 win over the Angels had a nice-sized 196,803 total viewers while ESPN's competing Game 2 of the Celtics-Magic Eastern Conference Finals drew 176,444 viewers in its closely contested last 30 minutes.
WFAA8 had a deflating day in the local news derby competitions, particularly in the still very close battle for 10 p.m. ratings supremacy.
CBS11 dominated in total viewers with 264,666 while WFAA8 ran a distant third (142,512 viewers) behind runner-up NBC5 (156,085 viewers).
It was worse for WFAA8 among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. CBS11 again won by a wide margin while WFAA8 fell to fourth despite solid ratings in that demographic from its V lead-in.
NBC5 won at 6 a.m. in both ratings measurements while WFAA8 showed some life by running a close second in total viewers (ahead of Fox4) and tying for second place with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 scored in the early evening news competitions, running the table at 6 p.m. and taking first at 5 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic. NBC5 had the total viewers gold at 5 p.m.
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