Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., July 24)
07/25/07 12:42 PM
By ED BARK
NBC's The Singing Bee isn't yet a baritone in the ratings, but it's high notes could be history.
The Joey Fatone-hosted lyric-mangler still managed to narrowly win its 8:30 p.m. time slot Tuesday with 133,280 D-FW homes. But that's little more than half the crowd it drew on opening night against baseball's All-Star game, when Bee stung with 252,280 homes.
The second half-hour of Fox's House repeat managed 126,140 homes opposite Bee while ABC's Shaq's Big Challenge ran a competitive third with 119,000. Bee also won at 8:30 p.m. with advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, but again not imposingly.
In the cable realm, FX's premiere of the critically praised Damages drew 40,460 homes locally from 9 to 10 p.m. No, that's not a great start.
The local news derby found NBC5 winning at 10 p.m. for a second straight night in both total homes and among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
NBC5 and Fox4 split honors at 6 a.m., with the Peacock placing first in homes but falling to third behind Fox4 and Belo8 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Belo8 won at 6 p.m. in homes, but Fox4 had the most 25-to-54-year-old viewers.
NBC5 took first place in both ratings measurements at 5 p.m.
NBC's The Singing Bee isn't yet a baritone in the ratings, but it's high notes could be history.
The Joey Fatone-hosted lyric-mangler still managed to narrowly win its 8:30 p.m. time slot Tuesday with 133,280 D-FW homes. But that's little more than half the crowd it drew on opening night against baseball's All-Star game, when Bee stung with 252,280 homes.
The second half-hour of Fox's House repeat managed 126,140 homes opposite Bee while ABC's Shaq's Big Challenge ran a competitive third with 119,000. Bee also won at 8:30 p.m. with advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, but again not imposingly.
In the cable realm, FX's premiere of the critically praised Damages drew 40,460 homes locally from 9 to 10 p.m. No, that's not a great start.
The local news derby found NBC5 winning at 10 p.m. for a second straight night in both total homes and among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
NBC5 and Fox4 split honors at 6 a.m., with the Peacock placing first in homes but falling to third behind Fox4 and Belo8 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Belo8 won at 6 p.m. in homes, but Fox4 had the most 25-to-54-year-old viewers.
NBC5 took first place in both ratings measurements at 5 p.m.
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