Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Feb. 8-10)
02/11/08 12:13 PM
By ED BARK
Sunday's Grammys, featuring Amy Winehouse's seemingly clean 'n' sober performance from London, lured the lion's share of prime-time viewers to CBS.
The three-and-a-half-hour telecast averaged 275,223 total D-FW homes while also carrying the ball among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds. ABC's competing two-hour edition of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was no slouch, though. It drew 224,075 homes from 7 to 9 p.m., and actually beat the Grammys in its closing 15 minutes -- 282,530 homes to 275,223.
Fox's Pro Bowl telecast fared well during mostly daytime hours, pulling in 228,946 homes.
On Friday, what could be the last episode of NBC's Austin-made Friday Night Lights ran a dispiriting fourth from 8 to 9 p.m. with just 65,761 D-FW homes. It perked up with 18-to-49-year-olds, though, tying CBS' Moonlight for second behind The CW's WWE Smackdown!, which will be vacating that network at the end of this season.
The seventh weekday of the 20-day February "sweeps" brought another dominating performance by WFAA's local newscasts. The ABC station scored a double grand slam by sweeping the 6 a.m. and 5, 6 and 10 p.m. competitions in both total homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4's Good Day, now officially in a sweeps-long slump, ran third behind NBC5 in total homes and tied the Peacock for second among 25-to-54-year-olds.
After winning both the November and May sweeps, Good Day could be hard-pressed to hold off NBC5 for second place. First place is looking more and more like Daybreak's domain, even with co-anchor Justin Farmer a lame duck who will be leaving WFAA8 for Atlanta when his contract expires in July.
Sunday's Grammys, featuring Amy Winehouse's seemingly clean 'n' sober performance from London, lured the lion's share of prime-time viewers to CBS.
The three-and-a-half-hour telecast averaged 275,223 total D-FW homes while also carrying the ball among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds. ABC's competing two-hour edition of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was no slouch, though. It drew 224,075 homes from 7 to 9 p.m., and actually beat the Grammys in its closing 15 minutes -- 282,530 homes to 275,223.
Fox's Pro Bowl telecast fared well during mostly daytime hours, pulling in 228,946 homes.
On Friday, what could be the last episode of NBC's Austin-made Friday Night Lights ran a dispiriting fourth from 8 to 9 p.m. with just 65,761 D-FW homes. It perked up with 18-to-49-year-olds, though, tying CBS' Moonlight for second behind The CW's WWE Smackdown!, which will be vacating that network at the end of this season.
The seventh weekday of the 20-day February "sweeps" brought another dominating performance by WFAA's local newscasts. The ABC station scored a double grand slam by sweeping the 6 a.m. and 5, 6 and 10 p.m. competitions in both total homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4's Good Day, now officially in a sweeps-long slump, ran third behind NBC5 in total homes and tied the Peacock for second among 25-to-54-year-olds.
After winning both the November and May sweeps, Good Day could be hard-pressed to hold off NBC5 for second place. First place is looking more and more like Daybreak's domain, even with co-anchor Justin Farmer a lame duck who will be leaving WFAA8 for Atlanta when his contract expires in July.