Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., Aug. 16) -- a desultory defeat but another big ratings win for Rangers
08/17/10 10:45 AM
By ED BARK
The Texas Rangers grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory during a bungled eighth inning at Tampa Bay Monday night. Another big crowd shared the agony, propelling the North Texas 9 to its latest dominant performance in the D-FW Nielsen league.
Rangers-Rays, which ran from 6:11 to 9:13 on Fox Sports Southwest, averaged 237,521 viewers while peaking at 339,315 between 8:45 and 9 p.m. That again made baseball the day's most-watched attraction. A two-hour glop of ABC's Bachelor Pad ran second with an average of 190,016 viewers in the 7 to 9 p.m. slot.
The Rangers even thumped ESPN's prime-time pre-season game between the Giants and Jets, who opened their new Meadowlands stadium to the tune of just 67,863 viewers locally.
Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast, which mostly dodged direct competition from the Rangers, won that hour with 156,085 viewers after Bachelor Pad gave way to, urp, ABC's Dating in the Dark (88,222 viewers for a fourth place finish).
NBC's two-hour repeat of America's Got Talent slumped badly from 7 to 9 p.m., placing fourth in total viewers and third with advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds among Monday night's non-sports programming.
In local news derby results, NBC5 won at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming on most stations. The Peacock also prevailed at 6 a.m. in total viewers, but lost the 25-to-54 race to WFAA8.
Fox4 won at 5 and 6 p.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds; the total viewer victories went to CBS11 at 6 p.m. and WFAA8 at 5 p.m.
First-time mom -- Congratulations to WFAA8 anchor/reporter Shelly Slater and her husband, Clay. Their first child, 8 pound, 12 ounce Hutcheson Kent, was born Friday evening.
Slater will be on maternity leave until sometime in the fall, with various WFAA8 staffers filling in for her on weekday 5 p.m. newscasts.
The Texas Rangers grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory during a bungled eighth inning at Tampa Bay Monday night. Another big crowd shared the agony, propelling the North Texas 9 to its latest dominant performance in the D-FW Nielsen league.
Rangers-Rays, which ran from 6:11 to 9:13 on Fox Sports Southwest, averaged 237,521 viewers while peaking at 339,315 between 8:45 and 9 p.m. That again made baseball the day's most-watched attraction. A two-hour glop of ABC's Bachelor Pad ran second with an average of 190,016 viewers in the 7 to 9 p.m. slot.
The Rangers even thumped ESPN's prime-time pre-season game between the Giants and Jets, who opened their new Meadowlands stadium to the tune of just 67,863 viewers locally.
Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast, which mostly dodged direct competition from the Rangers, won that hour with 156,085 viewers after Bachelor Pad gave way to, urp, ABC's Dating in the Dark (88,222 viewers for a fourth place finish).
NBC's two-hour repeat of America's Got Talent slumped badly from 7 to 9 p.m., placing fourth in total viewers and third with advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds among Monday night's non-sports programming.
In local news derby results, NBC5 won at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming on most stations. The Peacock also prevailed at 6 a.m. in total viewers, but lost the 25-to-54 race to WFAA8.
Fox4 won at 5 and 6 p.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds; the total viewer victories went to CBS11 at 6 p.m. and WFAA8 at 5 p.m.
First-time mom -- Congratulations to WFAA8 anchor/reporter Shelly Slater and her husband, Clay. Their first child, 8 pound, 12 ounce Hutcheson Kent, was born Friday evening.
Slater will be on maternity leave until sometime in the fall, with various WFAA8 staffers filling in for her on weekday 5 p.m. newscasts.
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