Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., May 18) -- Dancing, CBS dominate
05/19/09 11:24 AM
By ED BARK
The spring season's penultimate Dancing with the Stars and season finales of three popular CBS series reaped the lion's share of Monday night's ratings.
ABC opened the night with a robust 418,509 D-FW viewers for Dancing before the two-hour launch of The Bachelorette drooped to 212,576 viewers.
That opened the door for CBS' 8 to 10 p.m. lineup of Two and a Half Men (338,793 viewers), Rules of Engagement (285,649 viewers) and CSI: Miami (405,223 viewers).
Dancing and the three CBS series also won their time slots among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds.
Over on Fox, the two-hour season finale of 24 drew a lackluster 139,503 total viewers, beating only NBC's two Deal or No Deal dollops from 7 to 9 p.m. 24 likewise ran a distant third with 18-to-49-year-olds despite having a solid, twisty-turny season that ended with -- don't look if you don't want to know -- Jack in a hospital-induced coma while his daughter Kim had the last words.
"I'm sorry, daddy, but I'm not ready to let you go," she said tearfully before undergoing a risky off-season stem cell transplant operation that obviously will save the old man and get him up and running for Season 8 in NYC.
In the local news derby, WFAA8's first-place tie with CBS11 in the 10 p.m. total viewer ratings all but ends the latter station's bid to take first place or tie trying. An expected monster lead-in Tuesday night for the Dancing finale should give WFAA8 all the cushion it needs.
WFAA8 also won at 10 p.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. And the station is finishing strong in the competitive 5 and 6 p.m. time slots as well, notching across the board wins Monday.
NBC5 continued to roar at 6 a.m., where it's laid waste to the competition from virtually Day 1 of the sweeps. Monday's edition easily had more 25-to-54-year-old viewers -- 118,377 -- than any of that day's programming on either NBC or Fox. And yes, we're talking about the entire broadcast day, including prime-time.
The spring season's penultimate Dancing with the Stars and season finales of three popular CBS series reaped the lion's share of Monday night's ratings.
ABC opened the night with a robust 418,509 D-FW viewers for Dancing before the two-hour launch of The Bachelorette drooped to 212,576 viewers.
That opened the door for CBS' 8 to 10 p.m. lineup of Two and a Half Men (338,793 viewers), Rules of Engagement (285,649 viewers) and CSI: Miami (405,223 viewers).
Dancing and the three CBS series also won their time slots among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds.
Over on Fox, the two-hour season finale of 24 drew a lackluster 139,503 total viewers, beating only NBC's two Deal or No Deal dollops from 7 to 9 p.m. 24 likewise ran a distant third with 18-to-49-year-olds despite having a solid, twisty-turny season that ended with -- don't look if you don't want to know -- Jack in a hospital-induced coma while his daughter Kim had the last words.
"I'm sorry, daddy, but I'm not ready to let you go," she said tearfully before undergoing a risky off-season stem cell transplant operation that obviously will save the old man and get him up and running for Season 8 in NYC.
In the local news derby, WFAA8's first-place tie with CBS11 in the 10 p.m. total viewer ratings all but ends the latter station's bid to take first place or tie trying. An expected monster lead-in Tuesday night for the Dancing finale should give WFAA8 all the cushion it needs.
WFAA8 also won at 10 p.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. And the station is finishing strong in the competitive 5 and 6 p.m. time slots as well, notching across the board wins Monday.
NBC5 continued to roar at 6 a.m., where it's laid waste to the competition from virtually Day 1 of the sweeps. Monday's edition easily had more 25-to-54-year-old viewers -- 118,377 -- than any of that day's programming on either NBC or Fox. And yes, we're talking about the entire broadcast day, including prime-time.
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