Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs., July 10)
07/11/08 09:52 AM
By ED BARK
Arf arf, yet another new summertime reality competition series entered the arena Thursday.
D-FW viewers threw CBS' Greatest American Dog a bone by making it the night's most-watched 7 p.m. attraction -- by a hair. Dog drew 133,958 D-FW homes to edge Fox's competing Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (131,522 homes).
Among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, though, Smarter easily licked Dog, which nipped NBC's Last Comic Standing for second place.
At 8 p.m., Fox's So You Think You Can Dance results show niftily tapped to the top with 18-to-49-year-olds but ran second in total homes behind a repeat of CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
The results weren't so good for 20-year-old Comfort Fedoke of Dallas, who was eliminated. But Dancing's 10 finalists still include Joshua Allen of Fort Worth.
ABC's Hopkins then took over at 9 p.m. drawing the most total homes of the night (172,928) and also the biggest audience of 18-to-49-year-olds.
This helped propel WFAA8's 10 p.m. newscast to comfortable wins in both total homes (155,878) and among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser audience for news programming.
Fox4 prevailed in total homes at 6 a.m., with WFAA8 running first in the 25-to-54 demo. The ABC station swept the 5 and 6 p.m. news competitions. That's 14 weekday wins in a row at the later hour.
Arf arf, yet another new summertime reality competition series entered the arena Thursday.
D-FW viewers threw CBS' Greatest American Dog a bone by making it the night's most-watched 7 p.m. attraction -- by a hair. Dog drew 133,958 D-FW homes to edge Fox's competing Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (131,522 homes).
Among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, though, Smarter easily licked Dog, which nipped NBC's Last Comic Standing for second place.
At 8 p.m., Fox's So You Think You Can Dance results show niftily tapped to the top with 18-to-49-year-olds but ran second in total homes behind a repeat of CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
The results weren't so good for 20-year-old Comfort Fedoke of Dallas, who was eliminated. But Dancing's 10 finalists still include Joshua Allen of Fort Worth.
ABC's Hopkins then took over at 9 p.m. drawing the most total homes of the night (172,928) and also the biggest audience of 18-to-49-year-olds.
This helped propel WFAA8's 10 p.m. newscast to comfortable wins in both total homes (155,878) and among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser audience for news programming.
Fox4 prevailed in total homes at 6 a.m., with WFAA8 running first in the 25-to-54 demo. The ABC station swept the 5 and 6 p.m. news competitions. That's 14 weekday wins in a row at the later hour.
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