Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Jan. 25-27)
01/28/08 12:45 PM
By ED BARK
Friday's fizzled freezing rain palooza pumped up the 6 a.m. newscast ratings, with Fox4 and Belo8 sharing the first-place wealth.
Fox4's Good Day, which demonstrably downplayed the prospects of an imperiled work commute, won in total homes with 141,265. Belo8's Daybreak, with main weatherman Pete Delkus blowing in, finished a close second (136,394 homes). Trailing, but with larger audiences than usual, were NBC5 (116,909) and CBS11 (90,117).
That's a combined 484,685 homes, up considerably from the previous Friday's 297,143.
Belo8 won the early morning race among 25-to-54-year-olds, edging Fox4. The totals: Belo8 (108,947); Fox4 (103,058); NBC5 (79,502) and CBS11 (55,946). The combined total -- 347,453 viewers in the 25-to-54 demo -- is way up from 203,171 for the previous Friday. Which is why all the local news operations don't mind being foul weather friends.
In Friday's other news skirmishes, Belo8 again held serve at 10 p.m. in both measurements and also had twins at 6 p.m. But the 5 p.m. golds went to Fox4 in total homes and NBC5 among 25-to-54-year-olds.
In prime-time Friday, it was a very dispiriting night for NBC's made-in-Austin Friday Night Lights, which drew a meager 41,405 D-FW homes for a new episode. Broadcast TV's best drama series can't withstand those dismal ratings, and will be an almost sure cancellation with or without a quick settlement of the writers' strike.
On Sunday night, the TNT/TBS simulcast of the star-studded Screen Actors Guild Awards drew a combined 53,583 D-FW homes. That's not very good either. The same night's Mavericks-Nuggets game on both Fox Sports Southwest and ESPN had a total of 99,860 homes.
Friday's fizzled freezing rain palooza pumped up the 6 a.m. newscast ratings, with Fox4 and Belo8 sharing the first-place wealth.
Fox4's Good Day, which demonstrably downplayed the prospects of an imperiled work commute, won in total homes with 141,265. Belo8's Daybreak, with main weatherman Pete Delkus blowing in, finished a close second (136,394 homes). Trailing, but with larger audiences than usual, were NBC5 (116,909) and CBS11 (90,117).
That's a combined 484,685 homes, up considerably from the previous Friday's 297,143.
Belo8 won the early morning race among 25-to-54-year-olds, edging Fox4. The totals: Belo8 (108,947); Fox4 (103,058); NBC5 (79,502) and CBS11 (55,946). The combined total -- 347,453 viewers in the 25-to-54 demo -- is way up from 203,171 for the previous Friday. Which is why all the local news operations don't mind being foul weather friends.
In Friday's other news skirmishes, Belo8 again held serve at 10 p.m. in both measurements and also had twins at 6 p.m. But the 5 p.m. golds went to Fox4 in total homes and NBC5 among 25-to-54-year-olds.
In prime-time Friday, it was a very dispiriting night for NBC's made-in-Austin Friday Night Lights, which drew a meager 41,405 D-FW homes for a new episode. Broadcast TV's best drama series can't withstand those dismal ratings, and will be an almost sure cancellation with or without a quick settlement of the writers' strike.
On Sunday night, the TNT/TBS simulcast of the star-studded Screen Actors Guild Awards drew a combined 53,583 D-FW homes. That's not very good either. The same night's Mavericks-Nuggets game on both Fox Sports Southwest and ESPN had a total of 99,860 homes.
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