Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Nov. 30-Dec. 2)
12/03/07 11:02 AM
By ED BARK
Chalk up another eventful football weekend, even without the Dallas Cowboys in play.
From Friday through Sunday, no program drew more total D-FW homes than Sunday afternoon/evening's New York Giants-Chicago Bears game on Fox. It set the ratings pace with 372,647 homes, outpointing NBC's Sunday Night Football matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals (280,094 homes).
Fox's string-along, commercial-clogged BCS Selection Show, which ran from 6:51 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, made a nice haul of 277,658 total homes. It took that long to announce just five bowl matchups? Yes, Fox milked the very last drop out of this one, no doubt pissing off a sizable segment of viewers. The show also offered the spectacle of former Cowboys coaches Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer sitting side by side. The usually colorful Switzer mostly yelled almost unintelligibly.
Saturday night's pivotal Big 12 championship game on ABC, won decisively by Oklahoma over Missouri, racked up fewer homes -- 233,818 -- than Fox's BCS B.S. That was still more than enough to easily sweep the prime-time ratings. It also put that night's Dallas Stars-Philadelphia Flyers hockey match on ice. The Stars averaged a piddling 14,614 homes on MY27.
Saturday's first-ever telecast of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular on NBC also came up notably short in the Nielsens. The one-hour special drew just 85,246 homes from 7 to 8 p.m. to run fourth in its timeslot. The Rockettes-driven extravaganza likewise fared poorly among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, with only 23,250 of 'em.
Friday's local newscast numbers played out as usual. Belo8 swept the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. faceoffs in both total homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Fox4 took both battles at 6 a.m.
Chalk up another eventful football weekend, even without the Dallas Cowboys in play.
From Friday through Sunday, no program drew more total D-FW homes than Sunday afternoon/evening's New York Giants-Chicago Bears game on Fox. It set the ratings pace with 372,647 homes, outpointing NBC's Sunday Night Football matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals (280,094 homes).
Fox's string-along, commercial-clogged BCS Selection Show, which ran from 6:51 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, made a nice haul of 277,658 total homes. It took that long to announce just five bowl matchups? Yes, Fox milked the very last drop out of this one, no doubt pissing off a sizable segment of viewers. The show also offered the spectacle of former Cowboys coaches Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer sitting side by side. The usually colorful Switzer mostly yelled almost unintelligibly.
Saturday night's pivotal Big 12 championship game on ABC, won decisively by Oklahoma over Missouri, racked up fewer homes -- 233,818 -- than Fox's BCS B.S. That was still more than enough to easily sweep the prime-time ratings. It also put that night's Dallas Stars-Philadelphia Flyers hockey match on ice. The Stars averaged a piddling 14,614 homes on MY27.
Saturday's first-ever telecast of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular on NBC also came up notably short in the Nielsens. The one-hour special drew just 85,246 homes from 7 to 8 p.m. to run fourth in its timeslot. The Rockettes-driven extravaganza likewise fared poorly among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, with only 23,250 of 'em.
Friday's local newscast numbers played out as usual. Belo8 swept the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. faceoffs in both total homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Fox4 took both battles at 6 a.m.
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