Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., June 10) -- another slam dunk for NBA Finals
06/11/14 12:22 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
The Spurs’ rout of the Heat in Game 3 of the NBA Finals likely suppressed the potential audience as the outcome became obvious.
ABC’s telecast dominated anyway for a game that ran from 8:11 p.m. to 10:46 p.m.
Technically, the full 10:45 to 11 p.m. increment is supposed to be factored into the overall game average. But in reality, ABC’s brief post-game show, a big block of commercials and WFAA8’s late-starting local newscast filled 14 of those minutes. So we’re going to give you a more realistically accurate count by discarding those 15 minutes but including the full 8 to 8:15 p.m. segment in the overall rating average.
So here’s the score. San Antonio’s 111-92 demolition of Miami averaged 454,483 D-FW viewers, with 260,054 of them in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 demographic.
The total audience fell just shy of Game 2’s 461,585 viewers. But this was the highest-rated game among 18-to-49-year-olds, beating the 237,739 for Game 2.
NBC’s first hour of America’s Got Talent gave the Peacock a 7 to 8 p.m. win with 241,444 total viewers opposite CBS’ NCIS repeat (205,938) and ABC’s pre-game combo of a Jimmy Kimmel Finals special (78,114) and a half-hour of on-site buildup from Miami (120,722). Kimmel moved ahead of NCIS among 18-to-49-year-olds before the 7:30 to 8 p.m. portion of pre-game filler ran first ahead of America’s Got Talent.
Fox’s 7 to 9 p.m. combo of Riot and I Wanna Marry Harry ran last in total viewers among the Big Four broadcast networks. Harry inched up to third place, ahead of CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles repeat, in the 18-to-49 demographic.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the struggling, injury-decimated Texas Rangers continued to slump in the ratings as well. Their 8-5 loss to the Miami Marlins averaged 92,317 total viewers, ending at almost exactly the same that Spurs-Heat did.
Here are Tuesday’s local news derby numbers.
NBC5 won a downsized three-way race at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
The Peacock also swept the 6 a.m. competitions. The sweeping continued at 5 and 6 p.m., with Fox4 and WFAA8 respectively scoring twin wins.
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The Spurs’ rout of the Heat in Game 3 of the NBA Finals likely suppressed the potential audience as the outcome became obvious.
ABC’s telecast dominated anyway for a game that ran from 8:11 p.m. to 10:46 p.m.
Technically, the full 10:45 to 11 p.m. increment is supposed to be factored into the overall game average. But in reality, ABC’s brief post-game show, a big block of commercials and WFAA8’s late-starting local newscast filled 14 of those minutes. So we’re going to give you a more realistically accurate count by discarding those 15 minutes but including the full 8 to 8:15 p.m. segment in the overall rating average.
So here’s the score. San Antonio’s 111-92 demolition of Miami averaged 454,483 D-FW viewers, with 260,054 of them in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 demographic.
The total audience fell just shy of Game 2’s 461,585 viewers. But this was the highest-rated game among 18-to-49-year-olds, beating the 237,739 for Game 2.
NBC’s first hour of America’s Got Talent gave the Peacock a 7 to 8 p.m. win with 241,444 total viewers opposite CBS’ NCIS repeat (205,938) and ABC’s pre-game combo of a Jimmy Kimmel Finals special (78,114) and a half-hour of on-site buildup from Miami (120,722). Kimmel moved ahead of NCIS among 18-to-49-year-olds before the 7:30 to 8 p.m. portion of pre-game filler ran first ahead of America’s Got Talent.
Fox’s 7 to 9 p.m. combo of Riot and I Wanna Marry Harry ran last in total viewers among the Big Four broadcast networks. Harry inched up to third place, ahead of CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles repeat, in the 18-to-49 demographic.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the struggling, injury-decimated Texas Rangers continued to slump in the ratings as well. Their 8-5 loss to the Miami Marlins averaged 92,317 total viewers, ending at almost exactly the same that Spurs-Heat did.
Here are Tuesday’s local news derby numbers.
NBC5 won a downsized three-way race at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
The Peacock also swept the 6 a.m. competitions. The sweeping continued at 5 and 6 p.m., with Fox4 and WFAA8 respectively scoring twin wins.
Email comments or questions to: unclebarky@verizon.net