Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Nov. 14)
11/15/06 03:38 PM
By ED BARK
Again infused by Emmitt Smith, ABC's Dancing with the Stars drew its all-time largest D-FW audience Tuesday night.
The show's 90-minute performance finale fell just a few living rooms short of a half-million homes, settling for 499,800. That tripled the audience of its nearest time slot competitor, CBS' NCIS (166,600 homes).
Area viewers increasingly were turned off, though, by William Shatner's new Show Me the Money game show, which followed Dancing from 8:30 to 10 p.m. "Shat" started with a robust 316,540 homes for the first 15 minutes of Money. But by 8:45 p.m., the ratings looked like pennies from hell. Only 157,080 homes were still aboard at that point. Both NBC's Law & Order: SVU (240,380 homes) and CBS' new 3 Lbs. medical drama (168,980) were outdrawing it by then.
NBC5 had another profitable night in the local news wars, winning at 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. in homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Belo8 recovered a bit from a very bad Monday by winning at 5 p.m. in both ratings measurements. CBS11 and Belo8 tied in homes at 6 p.m., but both were thumped in the 25-to-54 demo by NBC5.
Through nine weeknights of the 20-night November "sweeps," NBC5 is comfortably ahead at 10 p.m. and continues to build on its 6 a.m. lead over the usually potent Fox4. Belo8 appears to have the 5 p.m. news race in its pocket, but 6 p.m. is still very much up for grabs.
Again infused by Emmitt Smith, ABC's Dancing with the Stars drew its all-time largest D-FW audience Tuesday night.
The show's 90-minute performance finale fell just a few living rooms short of a half-million homes, settling for 499,800. That tripled the audience of its nearest time slot competitor, CBS' NCIS (166,600 homes).
Area viewers increasingly were turned off, though, by William Shatner's new Show Me the Money game show, which followed Dancing from 8:30 to 10 p.m. "Shat" started with a robust 316,540 homes for the first 15 minutes of Money. But by 8:45 p.m., the ratings looked like pennies from hell. Only 157,080 homes were still aboard at that point. Both NBC's Law & Order: SVU (240,380 homes) and CBS' new 3 Lbs. medical drama (168,980) were outdrawing it by then.
NBC5 had another profitable night in the local news wars, winning at 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. in homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Belo8 recovered a bit from a very bad Monday by winning at 5 p.m. in both ratings measurements. CBS11 and Belo8 tied in homes at 6 p.m., but both were thumped in the 25-to-54 demo by NBC5.
Through nine weeknights of the 20-night November "sweeps," NBC5 is comfortably ahead at 10 p.m. and continues to build on its 6 a.m. lead over the usually potent Fox4. Belo8 appears to have the 5 p.m. news race in its pocket, but 6 p.m. is still very much up for grabs.
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