Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., April 26) -- Dancing waltzes to another big win before Romantically Challenged gets jilted
04/27/10 10:28 AM
By ED BARK
ABC might want to think about extending Dancing with the Stars back to two hours, even if it means padding Monday night's performance edition with a hoe down and pixilated home videos of contestant Pamela Anderson.
Weighing in at 90 minutes, Dancing dominated from 7 to 8:30 p.m. with 386,819 D-FW viewers, more than watched either of the Dallas Mavericks' last two marrow-draining losses to the San Antonio Spurs.
The second episode of ABC's Romantically Challenged sitcom then dug a ratings gulch from 8:30 to 9 p.m., sinking to 101,795 viewers in beating only the second half-hour of NBC's soon-to-be-canceled Trauma. That's a fatal fall-off.
Fox's 24, counting down to next month's series finale, was Monday's second most-watched attraction with 237,521 viewers in the 8 p.m. hour.
At 9 p.m., Fox4's local newscast edged a repeat of ABC's Castle for first place while dominating that time period among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds.
WFAA8's 10 p.m. newscast then had a big night, winning comfortably in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
NBC5 and Fox4 took the remaining news derby golds.
The Peacock cruised at 6 a.m. with twin wins and also won at both 5 and 6 p.m. in total viewers. Fox4 ran first at those early evening hours in the 25-to-54 demographic.
ABC might want to think about extending Dancing with the Stars back to two hours, even if it means padding Monday night's performance edition with a hoe down and pixilated home videos of contestant Pamela Anderson.
Weighing in at 90 minutes, Dancing dominated from 7 to 8:30 p.m. with 386,819 D-FW viewers, more than watched either of the Dallas Mavericks' last two marrow-draining losses to the San Antonio Spurs.
The second episode of ABC's Romantically Challenged sitcom then dug a ratings gulch from 8:30 to 9 p.m., sinking to 101,795 viewers in beating only the second half-hour of NBC's soon-to-be-canceled Trauma. That's a fatal fall-off.
Fox's 24, counting down to next month's series finale, was Monday's second most-watched attraction with 237,521 viewers in the 8 p.m. hour.
At 9 p.m., Fox4's local newscast edged a repeat of ABC's Castle for first place while dominating that time period among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds.
WFAA8's 10 p.m. newscast then had a big night, winning comfortably in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
NBC5 and Fox4 took the remaining news derby golds.
The Peacock cruised at 6 a.m. with twin wins and also won at both 5 and 6 p.m. in total viewers. Fox4 ran first at those early evening hours in the 25-to-54 demographic.
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