Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., April 11)
04/12/07 09:56 AM
By ED BARK
Padded but still ultra-potent, Wednesday night's one-hour American Idol results show again steamrollered all comers.
More importantly for Fox4, it helped propel the station's 9 p.m. local newscast to a strong second-place finish behind ABC's Lost but ahead of first-run episodes of CBS' CSI: NY and NBC's Medium.
Idol averaged 364,140 total homes in D-FW from 8 to 9 p.m., peaking in its final 15 minutes at 421,260. Fox4's following newscast managed to retain a bit more than half of the overall audience (197,540 homes).
Not quite in that league was the season-ending and possibly series-ending 7 p.m. episode of NBC's Friday Night Lights. The made-in-Austin Peabody award winner drew a puny 57,120 homes to finish a deflating sixth in its time period. By the way, the Dillon Panthers won the state football title with an improbable second-half comeback.
Three of Dallas' real-life major pro sports teams also were in action, with the Stars opening Stanley Cup play and losing in quadruple overtime to the Vancouver Canucks. The first three-and-ahalf-hours of the late night puck-off averaged 38,080 homes on Ch. 27.
Meanwhile, an earlier meaningless game between the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves drew 121,380 homes on TXA21 while the Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay (Fox Sports Southwest) managed 45,220 homes.
In the local news derby, two stations shared all the spoils.
Belo8 won at 10 p.m., and at 5 and 6 p.m., in homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 had twin wins at 6 a.m., with is homegrown Good Day also outdrawing the network morning shows across the board from 7 to 9 a.m.
The May sweeps, which begin on April 26, again are shaping up as too-close-to-call battles in the two marquee time slots -- 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Against all human logic, unclebarky.com again will have analyses of all 20 weeknight 10 p.m. newscasts. Then Uncle Barky will go into analysis.
Padded but still ultra-potent, Wednesday night's one-hour American Idol results show again steamrollered all comers.
More importantly for Fox4, it helped propel the station's 9 p.m. local newscast to a strong second-place finish behind ABC's Lost but ahead of first-run episodes of CBS' CSI: NY and NBC's Medium.
Idol averaged 364,140 total homes in D-FW from 8 to 9 p.m., peaking in its final 15 minutes at 421,260. Fox4's following newscast managed to retain a bit more than half of the overall audience (197,540 homes).
Not quite in that league was the season-ending and possibly series-ending 7 p.m. episode of NBC's Friday Night Lights. The made-in-Austin Peabody award winner drew a puny 57,120 homes to finish a deflating sixth in its time period. By the way, the Dillon Panthers won the state football title with an improbable second-half comeback.
Three of Dallas' real-life major pro sports teams also were in action, with the Stars opening Stanley Cup play and losing in quadruple overtime to the Vancouver Canucks. The first three-and-ahalf-hours of the late night puck-off averaged 38,080 homes on Ch. 27.
Meanwhile, an earlier meaningless game between the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves drew 121,380 homes on TXA21 while the Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay (Fox Sports Southwest) managed 45,220 homes.
In the local news derby, two stations shared all the spoils.
Belo8 won at 10 p.m., and at 5 and 6 p.m., in homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 had twin wins at 6 a.m., with is homegrown Good Day also outdrawing the network morning shows across the board from 7 to 9 a.m.
The May sweeps, which begin on April 26, again are shaping up as too-close-to-call battles in the two marquee time slots -- 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Against all human logic, unclebarky.com again will have analyses of all 20 weeknight 10 p.m. newscasts. Then Uncle Barky will go into analysis.
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