Jan 2014
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed.-Thurs., Jan. 29-30) -- Big Bang punctures Idol
01/31/14 11:52 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Despite its diminished ratings, Fox’s American Idol is still a show that all rival networks covet. Except when it goes against a new episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory.
Big Bang became the first competing show to outdraw Idol in Season 13, winning from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the D-FW Nielsen ratings by a score of 447,382 viewers to 326,660. BBT also bested Idol among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds on the first day of the February “sweeps” ratings period.
Idol then took the 7:30 to 8 p.m. slot in both measurements, easily besting CBS’ runner-up episode of The Millers.
Fox kept the ball rolling with its second episode of Greg Kinnear’s Rake, which ran first from 8 to 9 p.m. with 198,836 total viewers and 68,391 in the 18-to-49 age range.
Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast then tied CBS’ Elementary in total viewers with 220,140 apiece. But the news had the top spot to itself in the 18-to-49 demographic.
On Wednesday night, Fox’s two-hour Idol easily beat everything in sight from 7 to 9 p.m. with 411,875 total viewers and 172,605 in the 18-to-49 age range. Fox4’s 9 p.m. news capitalized on Idol’s lead-in largesse with dominating twin wins at that hour.
Here are the four-way local news derby results for those two weekdays.
Wednesday -- On sweeps eve, WFAA8 had a doubleheader win at 10 p.m. in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 as usual ran the table at 6 a.m. while WFAA8 added to its quiver with a pair of 6 p.m. wins.
NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and tied Fox4 for the top spot among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Thursday -- WFAA8 opened the sweeps with twin wins at 10 p.m. and Fox4 again did likewise at 6 a.m.
CBS11 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m., but WFAA8 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds. The 5 p.m. golds went to Fox4 in total viewers and WFAA8 in the 25-to-54 realm.
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Despite its diminished ratings, Fox’s American Idol is still a show that all rival networks covet. Except when it goes against a new episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory.
Big Bang became the first competing show to outdraw Idol in Season 13, winning from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the D-FW Nielsen ratings by a score of 447,382 viewers to 326,660. BBT also bested Idol among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds on the first day of the February “sweeps” ratings period.
Idol then took the 7:30 to 8 p.m. slot in both measurements, easily besting CBS’ runner-up episode of The Millers.
Fox kept the ball rolling with its second episode of Greg Kinnear’s Rake, which ran first from 8 to 9 p.m. with 198,836 total viewers and 68,391 in the 18-to-49 age range.
Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast then tied CBS’ Elementary in total viewers with 220,140 apiece. But the news had the top spot to itself in the 18-to-49 demographic.
On Wednesday night, Fox’s two-hour Idol easily beat everything in sight from 7 to 9 p.m. with 411,875 total viewers and 172,605 in the 18-to-49 age range. Fox4’s 9 p.m. news capitalized on Idol’s lead-in largesse with dominating twin wins at that hour.
Here are the four-way local news derby results for those two weekdays.
Wednesday -- On sweeps eve, WFAA8 had a doubleheader win at 10 p.m. in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 as usual ran the table at 6 a.m. while WFAA8 added to its quiver with a pair of 6 p.m. wins.
NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and tied Fox4 for the top spot among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Thursday -- WFAA8 opened the sweeps with twin wins at 10 p.m. and Fox4 again did likewise at 6 a.m.
CBS11 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m., but WFAA8 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds. The 5 p.m. golds went to Fox4 in total viewers and WFAA8 in the 25-to-54 realm.
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Catching up on D-FW news hires: Bianca Castro, Joangel Concepcion respectively join NBC5/Fox4 (updated Thursday a.m.)
01/29/14 04:20 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
While I was away . . .
NBC5 has hired Bianca Castro from ABC affiliate WFTV-TV in Orlando, FL to co-anchor the Fort Worth-based station’s 4 p.m. newscasts.
She’ll start sometime in March and will join incumbent Kristi Nelson, vice president of news Susan Tully said in a memo to staffers. Castro also will be a reporter on NBC5’s 10 p.m. newscasts, Tully said.
Brian Curtis, currently co-anchoring at 4 p.m., remains on the 10 p.m. newscast and also has been filling in at 5 and 6 p.m. while the station decides “who/how to anchor” those editions, vice president of programming Brian Hocker said.
Former 5 and 6 p.m. co-anchor Marc Fein is now working the early morning anchor desk with holdover Deborah Ferguson and another new addition, Eric King. Those changes came when NBC5 and co-anchor Mark Hayes parted ways after less than two years.
Castro, a native Californian and Baylor University graduate, grew up in Plano and interned as a college student at Dallas-based WFAA8. She told the Orlando Sentinel that her last day at WFTV will be on Feb. 21st. Castro also worked at stations in Waco and Corpus Christi before joining WFTV in October 2010.
***Dallas-based Fox4 has announced that Joangel Concepcion will be joining the station on Feb. 17th as a general assignment reporter. Concepcion arrives from Rochester, NY’s WHEC-TV and also has reported for KVEO-TV in McAllen, TX. She’s a Temple University graduate, with Fox4 noting that Concepcion’s Twitter page describes her as a “fearless reporter.”
She spent two years with WHEC, which is an NBC affiliate station.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed.- Tues., Jan. 22-28) -- catchup round
01/29/14 11:41 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
We live in interesting times. In times when Sunday night’s Grammy Awards on a single network (CBS) drew a substantially larger TV audience than the State of the Union address and Republican response on seven networks.
Those are the numbers that jumped out in this catchup round after a trip to Florida to see the opening of my daughter Liz’s and her husband Joseph’s community theater in Rockledge, FL. They did all of this from scratch, with an original play -- Cereus Moonlight -- and hand-built props and stage. Subjectively speaking, very impressive. Objectively speaking, very impressive.
Liz is a 2000 graduate of Dallas’ Ursuline Academy after eight years at St. Bernard of Clairvaux elementary . So if any readers would like to see what she and Joseph are up to -- or help out financially -- here’s a link to a Florida Today video in which they explain what miR Theater (made in Rockledge) is all about.
OK, on with the D-FW ratings show.
Sunday’s Grammys on CBS averaged 795,346 viewers locally, easily whipping competition from NBC’s tricked-up Pro Bowl (276,951 viewers). On Tuesday night, President Obama’s fifth State of the Union Address and a GOP response from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (8 to 9:45 p.m. with brief commentary in between) averaged 639,117 viewers on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC.
NBC and CBS tied for the biggest audience with 142,026 viewers apiece. MSNBC had the smallest crowd of 21,304. A repeat of CBS’ NCIS from 7 to 8 p.m. drew significantly more viewers -- 262,748 -- than the State of the Union and Republican response did on any individual network. That’s what’s known as a tune-out of all things Washington, D.C.
Monday night’s prime-time ratings parade was led by CBS’ How I Met Your Mother and NBC’s The Blacklist, each of which had 255,647 viewers. But ABC’s 7 to 9 p.m. edition of The Bachelor ran a comfy first among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds.
The Wednesday and Thursday Nielsens kept Fox’s American Idol on top of all prime-time programming. Wednesday’s 7 to 9 p.m. outing averaged 418,977 total viewers while Thursday’s one-hour edition drew 411,875 viewers.
Thursday’s post-Idol premiere of Rake, starring Greg Kinnear as a messed up defense attorney, fell to 198,836 viewers. It was beaten by a “special” episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory from 8 to 8:30 p.m. before outdrawing that network’s The Crazy Ones from 8:30 to 9 p.m.
Idol also romped to commanding wins among 18-to-49-year-olds on both nights while Rake ran first by far lesser margins.
Here are the weekday four-way local news derby results:
Wednesday -- WFAA8 swept the 10 p.m. competitions in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Otherwise it was all Fox4. The station ran the table in both measurements at 6 a.m. and at 5 and 6 p.m.
Thursday -- It was WFAA8’s turn to roll. The station again ran the table at 10 p.m., added a 6 p.m. sweep and won among 25-to-54-year-olds at 5 p.m.
Fox4 again ruled at 6 a.m. and NBC5 entered the winner’s circle with a 5 p.m. first in total viewers.
Friday -- WFAA8 remained dominant at 10 p.m. with twin wins and Fox4 again flexed with a 6 a.m. sweep. The earlier hour was especially dismal for WFAA8, which fell to an unaccustomed fourth in both ratings barometers.
WFAA8 ran the table at 6 p.m. The 5 p.m. golds went to Fox4 in total viewers and NBC5 in the 25-to-54 demographic.
Monday -- Fox4 logged a big day, again reigning at 6 a.m., also sweeping at 5 p.m. and running first at 6 and 10 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 also tied CBS11 for the most total viewers at 6 p.m. But WFAA8 stemmed the tide with a 10 p.m. win in total viewers while Fox4, NBC5 and CBS11 were all bunched close behind.
Tuesday -- WFAA8 won at 10 p.m. in total viewers but NBC5 ran first with 25to-54-year-olds in a downsized three-way race. CBS11’s late nighter was pushed back by its network’s Two and a Half Men rerun.
Fox4 remained a titan at 6 a.m. and also swept at 6 p.m.
NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. while Fox4 was tops with 25-to-54-year-olds.
For those keeping score, it was a particularly bad five-day stretch for CBS11, which managed just a lone first place tie in the 40 competitions for total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds. The station had a glimmer of hope at 6 a.m., though, beating WFAA8’s slumping waker-upper for the third-place spot in four of their 10 face-offs.
Fox4 remains well ahead of all three competitors in the 6 a.m. hour, although NBC5 soon will get an overall boost from its network’s coverage of the Winter Olympics, which begin in earnest with the Friday, Feb. 7th opening ceremonies from Sochi, Russia.
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We live in interesting times. In times when Sunday night’s Grammy Awards on a single network (CBS) drew a substantially larger TV audience than the State of the Union address and Republican response on seven networks.
Those are the numbers that jumped out in this catchup round after a trip to Florida to see the opening of my daughter Liz’s and her husband Joseph’s community theater in Rockledge, FL. They did all of this from scratch, with an original play -- Cereus Moonlight -- and hand-built props and stage. Subjectively speaking, very impressive. Objectively speaking, very impressive.
Liz is a 2000 graduate of Dallas’ Ursuline Academy after eight years at St. Bernard of Clairvaux elementary . So if any readers would like to see what she and Joseph are up to -- or help out financially -- here’s a link to a Florida Today video in which they explain what miR Theater (made in Rockledge) is all about.
OK, on with the D-FW ratings show.
Sunday’s Grammys on CBS averaged 795,346 viewers locally, easily whipping competition from NBC’s tricked-up Pro Bowl (276,951 viewers). On Tuesday night, President Obama’s fifth State of the Union Address and a GOP response from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (8 to 9:45 p.m. with brief commentary in between) averaged 639,117 viewers on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC.
NBC and CBS tied for the biggest audience with 142,026 viewers apiece. MSNBC had the smallest crowd of 21,304. A repeat of CBS’ NCIS from 7 to 8 p.m. drew significantly more viewers -- 262,748 -- than the State of the Union and Republican response did on any individual network. That’s what’s known as a tune-out of all things Washington, D.C.
Monday night’s prime-time ratings parade was led by CBS’ How I Met Your Mother and NBC’s The Blacklist, each of which had 255,647 viewers. But ABC’s 7 to 9 p.m. edition of The Bachelor ran a comfy first among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds.
The Wednesday and Thursday Nielsens kept Fox’s American Idol on top of all prime-time programming. Wednesday’s 7 to 9 p.m. outing averaged 418,977 total viewers while Thursday’s one-hour edition drew 411,875 viewers.
Thursday’s post-Idol premiere of Rake, starring Greg Kinnear as a messed up defense attorney, fell to 198,836 viewers. It was beaten by a “special” episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory from 8 to 8:30 p.m. before outdrawing that network’s The Crazy Ones from 8:30 to 9 p.m.
Idol also romped to commanding wins among 18-to-49-year-olds on both nights while Rake ran first by far lesser margins.
Here are the weekday four-way local news derby results:
Wednesday -- WFAA8 swept the 10 p.m. competitions in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Otherwise it was all Fox4. The station ran the table in both measurements at 6 a.m. and at 5 and 6 p.m.
Thursday -- It was WFAA8’s turn to roll. The station again ran the table at 10 p.m., added a 6 p.m. sweep and won among 25-to-54-year-olds at 5 p.m.
Fox4 again ruled at 6 a.m. and NBC5 entered the winner’s circle with a 5 p.m. first in total viewers.
Friday -- WFAA8 remained dominant at 10 p.m. with twin wins and Fox4 again flexed with a 6 a.m. sweep. The earlier hour was especially dismal for WFAA8, which fell to an unaccustomed fourth in both ratings barometers.
WFAA8 ran the table at 6 p.m. The 5 p.m. golds went to Fox4 in total viewers and NBC5 in the 25-to-54 demographic.
Monday -- Fox4 logged a big day, again reigning at 6 a.m., also sweeping at 5 p.m. and running first at 6 and 10 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 also tied CBS11 for the most total viewers at 6 p.m. But WFAA8 stemmed the tide with a 10 p.m. win in total viewers while Fox4, NBC5 and CBS11 were all bunched close behind.
Tuesday -- WFAA8 won at 10 p.m. in total viewers but NBC5 ran first with 25to-54-year-olds in a downsized three-way race. CBS11’s late nighter was pushed back by its network’s Two and a Half Men rerun.
Fox4 remained a titan at 6 a.m. and also swept at 6 p.m.
NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. while Fox4 was tops with 25-to-54-year-olds.
For those keeping score, it was a particularly bad five-day stretch for CBS11, which managed just a lone first place tie in the 40 competitions for total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds. The station had a glimmer of hope at 6 a.m., though, beating WFAA8’s slumping waker-upper for the third-place spot in four of their 10 face-offs.
Fox4 remains well ahead of all three competitors in the 6 a.m. hour, although NBC5 soon will get an overall boost from its network’s coverage of the Winter Olympics, which begin in earnest with the Friday, Feb. 7th opening ceremonies from Sochi, Russia.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Jan. 21) -- Award-winning Brooklyn Nine-Nine still being deep-sixed
01/22/14 09:55 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine cop comedy still can’t get arrested in these parts.
The surprise Golden Globe winner continued to reap nothing ratings-wise. For the second post-Globe Tuesday, a new 7:30 p.m. episode again ranked last among the Big Four broadcast networks in both total D-FW viewers and advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds. The respective totals were 71,103 and 22,797.
Nine-Nine had the added advantage of going against reruns on CBS and ABC. But CBS’ NCIS repeat still easily won the 7 p.m. hour with 269,849 total viewers before the network’s NCIS: Los Angeles do-over ran first at 8 p.m. with 248,546 viewers.
NBC’s new Chicago Fire episode prevailed at 9 p.m. with 184,634 viewers while ABC’s third episode of Killer Women again ran last (120,722 viewers). The network has said it will cut Killer Women’s planned run short, but intends to keep it on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. until the show’s doomsday. The series is set in San Antonio, filmed in New Mexico and stars Tricia Helfer as a take-no-guff Texas Ranger amid a group of male colleagues.
In the key 18-to-49 demographic, NBC’s 7 to 9 p.m. edition of The Biggest Loser won those two hours before Fox4’s local 9 p.m. newscast drew Tuesday’s overall biggest haul of 18-to-49-year-olds (84,674). It almost tripled the crowd for Killer Women and CBS’ Person of Interest reprise, each of which had 29,310 viewers in the 18-to-49 age range.
In Tuesday’s four-way local news derby results, WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while NBC5 won among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added a 5 p.m. win in the 25-to-54 demographic.
NBC5 took two early evening golds -- at 5 p.m. in total viewers and 6 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds. WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m.
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Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine cop comedy still can’t get arrested in these parts.
The surprise Golden Globe winner continued to reap nothing ratings-wise. For the second post-Globe Tuesday, a new 7:30 p.m. episode again ranked last among the Big Four broadcast networks in both total D-FW viewers and advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds. The respective totals were 71,103 and 22,797.
Nine-Nine had the added advantage of going against reruns on CBS and ABC. But CBS’ NCIS repeat still easily won the 7 p.m. hour with 269,849 total viewers before the network’s NCIS: Los Angeles do-over ran first at 8 p.m. with 248,546 viewers.
NBC’s new Chicago Fire episode prevailed at 9 p.m. with 184,634 viewers while ABC’s third episode of Killer Women again ran last (120,722 viewers). The network has said it will cut Killer Women’s planned run short, but intends to keep it on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. until the show’s doomsday. The series is set in San Antonio, filmed in New Mexico and stars Tricia Helfer as a take-no-guff Texas Ranger amid a group of male colleagues.
In the key 18-to-49 demographic, NBC’s 7 to 9 p.m. edition of The Biggest Loser won those two hours before Fox4’s local 9 p.m. newscast drew Tuesday’s overall biggest haul of 18-to-49-year-olds (84,674). It almost tripled the crowd for Killer Women and CBS’ Person of Interest reprise, each of which had 29,310 viewers in the 18-to-49 age range.
In Tuesday’s four-way local news derby results, WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while NBC5 won among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added a 5 p.m. win in the 25-to-54 demographic.
NBC5 took two early evening golds -- at 5 p.m. in total viewers and 6 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds. WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Mon., Jan. 17-20) -- more than a mil for both NFL championship games
01/21/14 11:49 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Sunday’s AFC and NFC championship games predictably squashed all competing programming while each hit the magic one million D-FW viewers mark.
CBS’ afternoon Peyton Manning-Tom Brady duel, won by the Denver Omahas, ran from 2:06 to 5:03 p.m. and averaged 1,065,195 viewers.
Fox’s prime-time Seattle Seahawks win over the San Francisco 49ers in an on-field/off-field war of words inflated to 1,313,741 viewers. It ran from 5:41 to 8:53 p.m. before Seattle defensive back Richard Sherman made a spectacle of himself and lit up the Twitter-verse.
A Season 2 preview episode of Fox’s The Following didn’t follow until 9:18 p.m. By that time, many viewers had tuned out, but The Following still managed a nice-sized showing of 383,470 viewers.
Fox also hoped to score with Monday night’s two-hour Season 1 finale of Sleepy Hollow. But it averaged a surprisingly skimpy 142,026 viewers from 7 to 9 p.m. CBS won those hours in total viewers with episodes of How I Met Your Mother (241,444); 2 Broke Girls (262,748); Mike & Molly (284,052) and Mom (255,647). ABC’s two-hour edition of The Bachelor took the silver with 191,735 viewers.
At 9 p.m., ABC’s Castle edged NBC’s The Blacklist by a score of 255,647 viewers to 241,444 while CBS’ new Intelligence ran an out-of-the-money fourth (149,127 viewers) behind Fox4’s local newscast (198,836 viewers).
Among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, How I Met Your Mother and 2 Broke Girls won the first hour of prime-time before The Bachelor ran first from 8 to 9 p.m. Fox4’s news was the 9 p.m. frontrunner by a solid margin over NBC’s runner-up Blacklist.
In Friday’s prime-time Nielsens, CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods tied for the most total viewers while ABC’s Shark Tank as usual had the most 18-to-49-year-olds. NBC’s 9 p.m. hour of Dracula was the night’s least-watched show in total viewers; Hawaii Five-0 drew the fewest 18-to-49-year-olds among the Big Four broadcast networks.
Here are the weekday four-way local news derby results:
Friday -- WFAA8 swept at 10 p.m. in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 likewise ran the table at 6 a.m. while adding 5 and 6 p.m. wins among 25-to-54-year-olds.
WFAA8 and CBS11 respectively had the most total viewers at 5 and 6 p.m.
Monday -- WFAA8 again won in total viewers at 10 p.m., but Fox4 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 and NBC5 both took Martin Luther King holiday knees at 6 a.m., which means their one-two finishes don’t count. So WFAA8 beat CBS 11 for first place in both measurements.
Fox4 finished first among 25-to-54-year-olds at both 5 and 6 p.m. NBC5 and WFAA8 tied for the most total viewers at 5 p.m.; CBS11 had the total viewers crown to itself at 6 p.m.
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Sunday’s AFC and NFC championship games predictably squashed all competing programming while each hit the magic one million D-FW viewers mark.
CBS’ afternoon Peyton Manning-Tom Brady duel, won by the Denver Omahas, ran from 2:06 to 5:03 p.m. and averaged 1,065,195 viewers.
Fox’s prime-time Seattle Seahawks win over the San Francisco 49ers in an on-field/off-field war of words inflated to 1,313,741 viewers. It ran from 5:41 to 8:53 p.m. before Seattle defensive back Richard Sherman made a spectacle of himself and lit up the Twitter-verse.
A Season 2 preview episode of Fox’s The Following didn’t follow until 9:18 p.m. By that time, many viewers had tuned out, but The Following still managed a nice-sized showing of 383,470 viewers.
Fox also hoped to score with Monday night’s two-hour Season 1 finale of Sleepy Hollow. But it averaged a surprisingly skimpy 142,026 viewers from 7 to 9 p.m. CBS won those hours in total viewers with episodes of How I Met Your Mother (241,444); 2 Broke Girls (262,748); Mike & Molly (284,052) and Mom (255,647). ABC’s two-hour edition of The Bachelor took the silver with 191,735 viewers.
At 9 p.m., ABC’s Castle edged NBC’s The Blacklist by a score of 255,647 viewers to 241,444 while CBS’ new Intelligence ran an out-of-the-money fourth (149,127 viewers) behind Fox4’s local newscast (198,836 viewers).
Among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, How I Met Your Mother and 2 Broke Girls won the first hour of prime-time before The Bachelor ran first from 8 to 9 p.m. Fox4’s news was the 9 p.m. frontrunner by a solid margin over NBC’s runner-up Blacklist.
In Friday’s prime-time Nielsens, CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods tied for the most total viewers while ABC’s Shark Tank as usual had the most 18-to-49-year-olds. NBC’s 9 p.m. hour of Dracula was the night’s least-watched show in total viewers; Hawaii Five-0 drew the fewest 18-to-49-year-olds among the Big Four broadcast networks.
Here are the weekday four-way local news derby results:
Friday -- WFAA8 swept at 10 p.m. in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 likewise ran the table at 6 a.m. while adding 5 and 6 p.m. wins among 25-to-54-year-olds.
WFAA8 and CBS11 respectively had the most total viewers at 5 and 6 p.m.
Monday -- WFAA8 again won in total viewers at 10 p.m., but Fox4 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 and NBC5 both took Martin Luther King holiday knees at 6 a.m., which means their one-two finishes don’t count. So WFAA8 beat CBS 11 for first place in both measurements.
Fox4 finished first among 25-to-54-year-olds at both 5 and 6 p.m. NBC5 and WFAA8 tied for the most total viewers at 5 p.m.; CBS11 had the total viewers crown to itself at 6 p.m.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs. Jan. 16) -- Idol again dominates while CBS punts with repeats
01/17/14 12:16 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Absent any high hurdle from a new episode of CBS’ The big Bang Theory, Fox’s American Idol cruised to another dominant win Thursday night.
Season 13’s second 7 to 9 p.m. audition show, half of it from Austin, averaged 397,673 D-FW viewers. That’s a significant dip from the 468,868 who watched on opening night. But it was a rout nonetheless, with CBS’ 7 p.m. repeat of Big Bang scoring highest opposite Idol with 241,444 viewers.
CBS opted for reruns all night but still outdrew NBC’s competing new sitcom episodes and ABC’s new two-hour tablespoon of The Taste from 7 to 9 p.m. Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast then easily won that hour with 248,546 viewers, with NBC’s new episode of Parenthood taking the silver (127,823 viewers).
Idol and Fox4’s news likewise won easily among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds. NBC’s Sean Saves the World and The Michael J. Fox Show, both barely on fumes, had the night’s least overall audience among the Big Four broadcast networks. They drew just 49,709 total viewers apiece.
KTXD-TV (Ch. 47) came close to pitching a complete ratings shutout Thursday. The only shows to register anything more than “hashmarks” (no measurable audience) for their complete running times were an 11 a.m. rerun of Bewitched, and a 2 p.m. repeat of Hart to Hart. Each show had 7,101 total viewers, according to Nielsen.
Ch. 47’s principal local productions, The Broadcast and The Texas Daily, logged hashmarks as usual. That’s pretty much been the case ever since the station ended its affiliation with ME-TV on Halloween of last year in favor of plugging in its own network TV oldies while increasing homegrown programming.
In Thursday’s four-way local news derby numbers, WFAA8 swept the 10 p.m. competitions in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 ran the table at 6 a.m. and also won at 5 and 6 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic.
NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. while CBS11 led in that measurement at 6 p.m.
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Absent any high hurdle from a new episode of CBS’ The big Bang Theory, Fox’s American Idol cruised to another dominant win Thursday night.
Season 13’s second 7 to 9 p.m. audition show, half of it from Austin, averaged 397,673 D-FW viewers. That’s a significant dip from the 468,868 who watched on opening night. But it was a rout nonetheless, with CBS’ 7 p.m. repeat of Big Bang scoring highest opposite Idol with 241,444 viewers.
CBS opted for reruns all night but still outdrew NBC’s competing new sitcom episodes and ABC’s new two-hour tablespoon of The Taste from 7 to 9 p.m. Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast then easily won that hour with 248,546 viewers, with NBC’s new episode of Parenthood taking the silver (127,823 viewers).
Idol and Fox4’s news likewise won easily among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds. NBC’s Sean Saves the World and The Michael J. Fox Show, both barely on fumes, had the night’s least overall audience among the Big Four broadcast networks. They drew just 49,709 total viewers apiece.
KTXD-TV (Ch. 47) came close to pitching a complete ratings shutout Thursday. The only shows to register anything more than “hashmarks” (no measurable audience) for their complete running times were an 11 a.m. rerun of Bewitched, and a 2 p.m. repeat of Hart to Hart. Each show had 7,101 total viewers, according to Nielsen.
Ch. 47’s principal local productions, The Broadcast and The Texas Daily, logged hashmarks as usual. That’s pretty much been the case ever since the station ended its affiliation with ME-TV on Halloween of last year in favor of plugging in its own network TV oldies while increasing homegrown programming.
In Thursday’s four-way local news derby numbers, WFAA8 swept the 10 p.m. competitions in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 ran the table at 6 a.m. and also won at 5 and 6 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic.
NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. while CBS11 led in that measurement at 6 p.m.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Jan. 15) -- Idol's still hammering
01/16/14 01:46 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Its Superman cape may have gotten a little frayed. But no rival network had any kryptonite opposite Fox’s two-hour Season 13 premiere of American Idol Wednesday night.
Equipped with a new judging team of Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick, Jr. and holdover Keith Urban, Idol averaged 468,868 D-FW viewers from 7 to 9 p.m. That easily beat all competing programming, with CBS’ 8 p.m. episode of Criminal Minds faring the best (326,660 viewers).
Idol likewise dominated among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, with 211,686 in this age range. ABC’s Modern Family was the runner-up in the 7 to 9 p.m. slot, drawing 120,498 viewers in this key demographic.
The Idol tailwind helped propel Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast to a time slot win with 18-to-49-year-olds. But CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation had the most total viewers at that hour with 298,255 while Fox4’s news ran a solid second (241,444).
The return of ABC’s Nashville edged NBC’s new Chicago P.D. for third place at 9 p.m. in total viewers. Chicago P.D. vaulted to second place among 18-to-49-year-olds, though, trailing only Fox4.
(D-FW Nielsens were not immediately available for A&E’s Wednesday night return of Duck Dynasty after last month’s heavy-duty feather-ruffling.) But Idol handily whipped DD nationally by a score of 15.2 million to 8.5 million total viewers, and 6.0 to 4.2 million in the 18-to-49 demographic.)
In Wednesday’s local news derby results, CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while NBC5 ran first among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
The Peacock also rose up to claim twin wins at 6 a.m. over the usual front-running Fox4. NBC5’s big day continued with a sweep of the 5 p.m. numbers. The station also had the most total viewers at 6 p.m. and tied Fox4 for first at that hour with 25-to-54-year-olds.
LOCAL TV NEWS NOTE
WFAA8 has hired Dallas Morning News police reporter Tanya Eiserer, the newspaper says in a memo to staffers. “She’s taking on a new, multi-faceted gig,” according to the DMN. “Some on-air reporting, behind-the-scenes work, contributor to its Sunday morning political show, blogger.”
The memo notes that Eiserer is “not going far. Across the street to WFAA-TV.” But it might as well be from West Germany to East Germany -- or vice-versa -- during the Cold War era. The DMN has severed all content-sharing ties with WFAA8, its former longtime synergistic pal, and now is in the same relationship with rival NBC5. Which pretty much makes the driveway guard shack between the two buildings a veritable Checkpoint Charlie.
The memo on Eiserer’s departure, plus some accompanying snark, was first posted on D magazine’s FrontBurner blog.
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Its Superman cape may have gotten a little frayed. But no rival network had any kryptonite opposite Fox’s two-hour Season 13 premiere of American Idol Wednesday night.
Equipped with a new judging team of Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick, Jr. and holdover Keith Urban, Idol averaged 468,868 D-FW viewers from 7 to 9 p.m. That easily beat all competing programming, with CBS’ 8 p.m. episode of Criminal Minds faring the best (326,660 viewers).
Idol likewise dominated among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, with 211,686 in this age range. ABC’s Modern Family was the runner-up in the 7 to 9 p.m. slot, drawing 120,498 viewers in this key demographic.
The Idol tailwind helped propel Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast to a time slot win with 18-to-49-year-olds. But CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation had the most total viewers at that hour with 298,255 while Fox4’s news ran a solid second (241,444).
The return of ABC’s Nashville edged NBC’s new Chicago P.D. for third place at 9 p.m. in total viewers. Chicago P.D. vaulted to second place among 18-to-49-year-olds, though, trailing only Fox4.
(D-FW Nielsens were not immediately available for A&E’s Wednesday night return of Duck Dynasty after last month’s heavy-duty feather-ruffling.) But Idol handily whipped DD nationally by a score of 15.2 million to 8.5 million total viewers, and 6.0 to 4.2 million in the 18-to-49 demographic.)
In Wednesday’s local news derby results, CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while NBC5 ran first among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
The Peacock also rose up to claim twin wins at 6 a.m. over the usual front-running Fox4. NBC5’s big day continued with a sweep of the 5 p.m. numbers. The station also had the most total viewers at 6 p.m. and tied Fox4 for first at that hour with 25-to-54-year-olds.
LOCAL TV NEWS NOTE
WFAA8 has hired Dallas Morning News police reporter Tanya Eiserer, the newspaper says in a memo to staffers. “She’s taking on a new, multi-faceted gig,” according to the DMN. “Some on-air reporting, behind-the-scenes work, contributor to its Sunday morning political show, blogger.”
The memo notes that Eiserer is “not going far. Across the street to WFAA-TV.” But it might as well be from West Germany to East Germany -- or vice-versa -- during the Cold War era. The DMN has severed all content-sharing ties with WFAA8, its former longtime synergistic pal, and now is in the same relationship with rival NBC5. Which pretty much makes the driveway guard shack between the two buildings a veritable Checkpoint Charlie.
The memo on Eiserer’s departure, plus some accompanying snark, was first posted on D magazine’s FrontBurner blog.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Jan. 14) -- no bounce for Brooklyn Nine-Nine
01/15/14 09:52 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s surprise wins at Sunday night’s heavily watched Golden Globes telecast resulted in no afterglow at all for Tuesday’s new episode on Fox.
In fact it was the polar opposite. The Andy Samberg sitcom ended up being tied for D-FW’s least-watched prime-time attraction on any of the Big Four broadcast networks. Airing at 7:30 p.m., Nine-Nine drew a measly 56,810 viewers before Fox’s New Girl popped up to 113,621 viewers. The Mindy Project then replicated Nine-Nine’s total of 56,810.
Nine-Nine likewise bombed with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, where it had the bottom rung all to itself with just 22,797 viewers in this key demographic. The Nielsens sometimes work in mysterious ways but few would have measured Nine-Nine for a ratings coffin after Sunday’s big coming out party.
CBS’ NCIS as always led all Tuesday night programming with 454,483 total viewers. CBS also won from 8 to 10 p.m. with new hours of NCIS: Los Angeles (369,268 viewers) and Person of Interest (298,255).
Among 18-to-49-year-olds, ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ran first from 7 to 8 p.m. NCIS: LA and Person of Interest took the top spots for the final two hours of prime-time.
ABC’s second episode of Killer Women, starring Tricia Helfer as an against-the-grain Texas Ranger, ran third at 9 p.m. in total viewers with 113,621. It drooped to a distant fourth with 18-to-49-year-olds behind Person of Interest, NBC’s Chicago Fire and Fox4’s local newscast.
In Tuesday’s four-way local news derby results, WFAA8 notched another pair of wins at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 again ran the table at 6 a.m. while also sweeping the 5 p.m. competitions. The golds at 6 p.m. went to CBS11 in total viewers and Fox4 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s surprise wins at Sunday night’s heavily watched Golden Globes telecast resulted in no afterglow at all for Tuesday’s new episode on Fox.
In fact it was the polar opposite. The Andy Samberg sitcom ended up being tied for D-FW’s least-watched prime-time attraction on any of the Big Four broadcast networks. Airing at 7:30 p.m., Nine-Nine drew a measly 56,810 viewers before Fox’s New Girl popped up to 113,621 viewers. The Mindy Project then replicated Nine-Nine’s total of 56,810.
Nine-Nine likewise bombed with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, where it had the bottom rung all to itself with just 22,797 viewers in this key demographic. The Nielsens sometimes work in mysterious ways but few would have measured Nine-Nine for a ratings coffin after Sunday’s big coming out party.
CBS’ NCIS as always led all Tuesday night programming with 454,483 total viewers. CBS also won from 8 to 10 p.m. with new hours of NCIS: Los Angeles (369,268 viewers) and Person of Interest (298,255).
Among 18-to-49-year-olds, ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ran first from 7 to 8 p.m. NCIS: LA and Person of Interest took the top spots for the final two hours of prime-time.
ABC’s second episode of Killer Women, starring Tricia Helfer as an against-the-grain Texas Ranger, ran third at 9 p.m. in total viewers with 113,621. It drooped to a distant fourth with 18-to-49-year-olds behind Person of Interest, NBC’s Chicago Fire and Fox4’s local newscast.
In Tuesday’s four-way local news derby results, WFAA8 notched another pair of wins at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 again ran the table at 6 a.m. while also sweeping the 5 p.m. competitions. The golds at 6 p.m. went to CBS11 in total viewers and Fox4 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., Jan. 13) -- Fox rallies while CBS gets low IQ for 2nd episode of Intelligence
01/14/14 01:11 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Ejected from last week’s protective womb -- a bounteous NCIS lead-in -- the second episode of CBS’ Intelligence slipped on a ratings banana peel in its first Monday outing.
Last Tuesday’s special 8 p.m. episode drew 418,977 D-FW viewers. On Monday at 9 p.m., Intelligence free-fell to 142,026 viewers opposite NBC’s return of The Blacklist (284,052) and ABC’s durable Castle (220,140).
Intelligence dropped another rung among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, trailing Blacklist, Castle and Fox4’s local 9 p.m. newscast.
Earlier in prime-time, Fox had strong performances from two first-year dramas. Almost Human comfortably won the 7 p.m. hour with 269,849 total viewers and Sleepy Hollow (already renewed for next season) likewise won its 8 p.m. slot with 198,836 viewers.
Both Fox dramas ran second among 18-to-49-year-olds to ABC’s two-hour dollop of The Bachelor.
In Monday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 stayed strong at 10 p.m. with wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 ran the table at 6 a.m. and NBC5 did likewise at 5 p.m.
The 6 p.m. golds went to CBS11 in total viewers and Fox4 in the 25-to-54 demographic.
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Ejected from last week’s protective womb -- a bounteous NCIS lead-in -- the second episode of CBS’ Intelligence slipped on a ratings banana peel in its first Monday outing.
Last Tuesday’s special 8 p.m. episode drew 418,977 D-FW viewers. On Monday at 9 p.m., Intelligence free-fell to 142,026 viewers opposite NBC’s return of The Blacklist (284,052) and ABC’s durable Castle (220,140).
Intelligence dropped another rung among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, trailing Blacklist, Castle and Fox4’s local 9 p.m. newscast.
Earlier in prime-time, Fox had strong performances from two first-year dramas. Almost Human comfortably won the 7 p.m. hour with 269,849 total viewers and Sleepy Hollow (already renewed for next season) likewise won its 8 p.m. slot with 198,836 viewers.
Both Fox dramas ran second among 18-to-49-year-olds to ABC’s two-hour dollop of The Bachelor.
In Monday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 stayed strong at 10 p.m. with wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 ran the table at 6 a.m. and NBC5 did likewise at 5 p.m.
The 6 p.m. golds went to CBS11 in total viewers and Fox4 in the 25-to-54 demographic.
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NBC5 debuts D-FW's first three-headed early morning newscast
01/13/14 06:37 PM
Eric King and Marc Fein joined veteran holdover Deborah Ferguson Monday on NBC5’s revamped early morning newscast. Photo: Ed Bark
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
If two heads are better than one, will three heads be better than two?
Fort Worth-based NBC5, after abruptly dropping co-anchor Mark Hayes last week, ushered in the market’s first early morning threesome Monday.
Technically, Marc Fein and longtime incumbent Deborah Ferguson are the anchors. But Eric King, who joined the station in March, got as much if not more face time as a roving studio personality who split his time narrating reports in front of a video wall and joining Fein and Ferguson at the desk. King and Ferguson also presided over an at times painful discourse on Golden Globes fashion plusses and minuses after Fein opted out.
King joined the program for the 5 to 7 a.m. segment, with Fein and Ferguson going it alone from 4:30 to 5 a.m. And he was far more than window dressing on his first official day.
At program’s end, the three of them were joined by meteorologist Grant Johnston and traffic reporter Remeisha Shade, who likewise is a meteorologist.
“This new big desk. Good thing,” Fein observed. “We needed all this space.”
NBC5 finished a close third to WFAA8 in the November “sweeps” early morning ratings, with Fox4 a dominant first.
Fein was shifted from co-anchor duties at 5 and 6 p.m., with no replacement named yet. Brian Curtis, who also co-anchors NBC5’s 4 and 10 p.m. newscasts, stayed the course Monday through the 5 and 6 p.m. editions as well. Station management has yet to answer repeated inquiries about any of this after first officially confirming last week that Hayes is “no longer with us.”
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Jan. 10-12) -- NFL/Golden Globes are ruling class
01/13/14 10:08 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
The 71st annual Golden Globe Awards rolled over everything else in sight Sunday night after a weekend of high-flying NFL post-season games.
Starting at 7 p.m. and getting off right on time at 10 p.m., the Globes averaged 497,091 D-FW viewers in more than doubling the audience for any competing program from 8 to 10 p.m. But CBS’ 7 p.m. episode of 60 Minutes, feeding off a big lead-in from the Denver Broncos-San Diego Chargers game, came fairly close to the Globes with 418,977 viewers. It sank in each 15-minute increment, though.
The Globes also drew 237,739 viewers in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 demographic. 60 Minutes also made the best competing showing in this age range, with 143,295 viewers. ABC’s new 9 p.m. episode of Betrayal sank to an astonishing low among 18-to-49-year-olds, with a sub-puny 1,302 of ‘em.
PBS’ Sunday night hour of Downton Abbey, from 8 to 9 p.m., averaged a respectable 142,026 total viewers, with 39,080 in the 18-to-49 demographic. Ratings for the Sunday premiere of HBO’s acclaimed True Detective were not immediately available.
In order of popularity, here are D-FW’s total viewer Nielsens for the weekend’s quartet of NFL post-season games:
***Denver Broncos vs. San Diego Chargers (3:40 to 6:53 p.m. Sunday on CBS) -- 887,663
***San Francisco 49ers vs. Carolina Panthers (12:06 to 3:04 p.m. Sunday on Fox) -- 738,535
***Seattle Seahawks vs. New Orleans Saints (3:36 to 6:43 p.m. Saturday on Fox) -- 688,826
***New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts (7:15 to 10:27 p.m. Saturday on CBS) -- 674,624
On Friday night, Fox’s premiere of the new sitcom Enlisted barely got arrested. Airing from 8:30 to 9 p.m., it drew just 63,912 total viewers with 19,540 in the 18-to-49 age range. That put it in fourth place among the Big Four broadcast networks, although in each case Enlisted had more viewers than Fox’s preceding Raising Hope.
Here are Friday’s local news derby results:
WFAA8 ran first at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. competitions by narrow margins over NBC5 while CBS11 squeaked by in total viewers at both 5 and 6 p.m. (sequentially ahead of NBC5 and WFAA8).
WFAA8 prevailed among 25-to-54-year-olds at both 5 and 6 p.m.
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The 71st annual Golden Globe Awards rolled over everything else in sight Sunday night after a weekend of high-flying NFL post-season games.
Starting at 7 p.m. and getting off right on time at 10 p.m., the Globes averaged 497,091 D-FW viewers in more than doubling the audience for any competing program from 8 to 10 p.m. But CBS’ 7 p.m. episode of 60 Minutes, feeding off a big lead-in from the Denver Broncos-San Diego Chargers game, came fairly close to the Globes with 418,977 viewers. It sank in each 15-minute increment, though.
The Globes also drew 237,739 viewers in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 demographic. 60 Minutes also made the best competing showing in this age range, with 143,295 viewers. ABC’s new 9 p.m. episode of Betrayal sank to an astonishing low among 18-to-49-year-olds, with a sub-puny 1,302 of ‘em.
PBS’ Sunday night hour of Downton Abbey, from 8 to 9 p.m., averaged a respectable 142,026 total viewers, with 39,080 in the 18-to-49 demographic. Ratings for the Sunday premiere of HBO’s acclaimed True Detective were not immediately available.
In order of popularity, here are D-FW’s total viewer Nielsens for the weekend’s quartet of NFL post-season games:
***Denver Broncos vs. San Diego Chargers (3:40 to 6:53 p.m. Sunday on CBS) -- 887,663
***San Francisco 49ers vs. Carolina Panthers (12:06 to 3:04 p.m. Sunday on Fox) -- 738,535
***Seattle Seahawks vs. New Orleans Saints (3:36 to 6:43 p.m. Saturday on Fox) -- 688,826
***New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts (7:15 to 10:27 p.m. Saturday on CBS) -- 674,624
On Friday night, Fox’s premiere of the new sitcom Enlisted barely got arrested. Airing from 8:30 to 9 p.m., it drew just 63,912 total viewers with 19,540 in the 18-to-49 age range. That put it in fourth place among the Big Four broadcast networks, although in each case Enlisted had more viewers than Fox’s preceding Raising Hope.
Here are Friday’s local news derby results:
WFAA8 ran first at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. competitions by narrow margins over NBC5 while CBS11 squeaked by in total viewers at both 5 and 6 p.m. (sequentially ahead of NBC5 and WFAA8).
WFAA8 prevailed among 25-to-54-year-olds at both 5 and 6 p.m.
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New dawn at NBC5 (but with anchor setup still cloudy)
01/12/14 12:01 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
A new early morning news configuration dawns on NBC5 Monday.
But the shape of things is still an open question because station management has yet to return repeated messages asking for clarification.
NBC5 staffers Marc Fein and Eric King both say on their NBC5 Facebook pages that they’ll be part of the latest setup. As first reported Wednesday on unclebarky.com, weekday waker-upper co-anchor Mark Hayes has left NBC5 by supposed mutual agreement after he spent less than two years alongside longtime incumbent Deborah Ferguson.
Fein, who joined NBC5 from Turner Sports in October 2011, says on Facebook: “Very excited about moving to the mornings and NBC5 Today with Deborah Ferguson! I start Monday (Jan. 13), so you might notice a bit of a different schedule in terms of my posts. For all my DFW friends, please check us out every morning starting at 4:30 a.m.”
King, who joined NBC5 in March from WLKY-TV in Louisville, KY, says on Facebook: “Well -- after a very long week, I have some exciting news! I’ve been added to the NBC5 Anchor Team. I will join Marc Fein, Deborah Ferguson, Grant Johnston and Samantha Davies weekday mornings starting at 4:30 a.m., then I’ll join Kristi Nelson on the midday desk at 11 a.m. Our new show starts Monday!”
Vice president of news Susan Tully and vice president of programming Brian Hocker have not responded to several inquiries about exactly what Fein’s and King’s duties will be. There also has been no official word on who will replace Fein as co-anchor of NBC5’s 5 and 6 p.m. weekday newscasts.
It should be noted that Hocker did confirm Hayes’ departure from the station. But going through “proper channels” since has been fruitless in terms of obtaining official further details on NBC5’s early morning and evening newscast changes.
Sources at NBC5 say staffers have been informed that King will be “some kind of in-studio reporter” on the station’s early morning editions. Hayes, who like King is African-American, had joined NBC5 in May 2012 from WAGA-TV in Atlanta, where he was an early morning anchor for 10 years. He’s now looking for another job in TV news.
***The early morning changes come during the formative stages of NBC5’s new “content sharing” deal with The Dallas Morning News, which long had been the synergistic partner of its downtown Dallas next door neighbor, WFAA8. The newspaper cut ties with WFAA8 in tandem with the station being taken over by Gannett after more than 60 years of Dallas-based Belo Corp. ownership.
Let’s just say that the new deal still rankles WFAA8 staffers from the top on down. Or as one veteran put it under condition of anonymity: “The partnership with NBC5 irks us all.”
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs., Jan. 9) -- ABC's The Assets is anything but
01/10/14 12:28 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
They’re going to have to move this to Saturday night Sibera -- sooner rather than later.
ABC’s second episode of its Cold War drama The Assets dug a big Death Valley in the 9 p.m. hour Thursday. Just 63,912 D-FW viewers tuned in, with a piddling 19,540 of them within the advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-old demographic. In both measurements, that made Assets a very distant fourth in its time slot, with CBS’ Elementary winning on both counts with 241,442 and 81,418 viewers respectively.
CBS’ new 7 p.m. episode of The Big Bang Theory as usual led all Thursday prime-time programming with 489,990 total viewers and 201,915 in the 18-to-49 demographic.
Over on KTXD-TV (Ch. 47), the station is now running its locally produced The Broadcast from both 9 to 11 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. No matter. Both airings had “hashmarks” (no measurable audience) for all four hours. KTXD’s other main homegrown show, The Texas Daily, fared a bit better in its new 9 to 10 p.m. slot. It drew 7,101 viewers, making it the station’s most-watched show of the day.
Here are Thursday’s four-way local news derby results:
CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m., but WFAA8 bucked its feeble lead-in from Assets to run first among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 won at 6 a.m. in total viewers while NBC5 had the most 25-to-54-year-olds. The 25-to-54 golds at both 5 and 6 p.m. went to Fox4.
NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and WFAA8 topped that measurement at 6 p.m.
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They’re going to have to move this to Saturday night Sibera -- sooner rather than later.
ABC’s second episode of its Cold War drama The Assets dug a big Death Valley in the 9 p.m. hour Thursday. Just 63,912 D-FW viewers tuned in, with a piddling 19,540 of them within the advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-old demographic. In both measurements, that made Assets a very distant fourth in its time slot, with CBS’ Elementary winning on both counts with 241,442 and 81,418 viewers respectively.
CBS’ new 7 p.m. episode of The Big Bang Theory as usual led all Thursday prime-time programming with 489,990 total viewers and 201,915 in the 18-to-49 demographic.
Over on KTXD-TV (Ch. 47), the station is now running its locally produced The Broadcast from both 9 to 11 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. No matter. Both airings had “hashmarks” (no measurable audience) for all four hours. KTXD’s other main homegrown show, The Texas Daily, fared a bit better in its new 9 to 10 p.m. slot. It drew 7,101 viewers, making it the station’s most-watched show of the day.
Here are Thursday’s four-way local news derby results:
CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m., but WFAA8 bucked its feeble lead-in from Assets to run first among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 won at 6 a.m. in total viewers while NBC5 had the most 25-to-54-year-olds. The 25-to-54 golds at both 5 and 6 p.m. went to Fox4.
NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and WFAA8 topped that measurement at 6 p.m.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Jan. 8) -- People's Choice Awards deals CBS a winning hand
01/09/14 09:16 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
People still haven’t tired of The People’s Choice Awards.
The annual two-hour CBS telecast reaped the most D-FW viewers Wednesday night, with 241,444 tuning in from 8 to 10 p.m.
That helped to blunt NBC’s 9 p.m. premiere of Chicago P.D.. Spun off from Chicago Fire, it drew 170,431 viewers to run third behind the second hour of People’s Choice and Fox4’s local newscast.
Chicago P.D. also took the bronze at 9 p.m. among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds.
In Wednesday’s local news derby results, CBS11 nipped NBC5 for the most total viewers at 9 p.m. while Fox4 ran first among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 added a 6 a.m. win in total viewers but was beaten by NBC5 in the 25-to-54 measurement.
NBC5 also had the most total viewers at both 5 and 6 p.m. Fox4 took the golds at those hours among 25-to-54-year-olds.
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People still haven’t tired of The People’s Choice Awards.
The annual two-hour CBS telecast reaped the most D-FW viewers Wednesday night, with 241,444 tuning in from 8 to 10 p.m.
That helped to blunt NBC’s 9 p.m. premiere of Chicago P.D.. Spun off from Chicago Fire, it drew 170,431 viewers to run third behind the second hour of People’s Choice and Fox4’s local newscast.
Chicago P.D. also took the bronze at 9 p.m. among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds.
In Wednesday’s local news derby results, CBS11 nipped NBC5 for the most total viewers at 9 p.m. while Fox4 ran first among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 added a 6 a.m. win in total viewers but was beaten by NBC5 in the 25-to-54 measurement.
NBC5 also had the most total viewers at both 5 and 6 p.m. Fox4 took the golds at those hours among 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Jan. 7) -- NCIS makes Intelligence look like smart bet
01/09/14 08:40 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
It’ll have to fend for itself next week. But CBS’ new Intelligence is a hit for now thanks to a big helping hand from the network’s preceding NCIS.
TV’s most popular drama series again led all of Tuesday’s prime-time programming with 504,192 D-FW viewers in the 7 p.m. hour. Intelligence, starring Josh Holloway as a computer-chipped man of action, then easily won its 8 p.m. slot with 418,977 viewers.
Intelligence now moves to its regular Monday 9 p.m. perch, where it will face tougher competition from NBC’s The Blacklist and ABC’s Castle while also getting much weaker lead-ins from CBS’ roster of sitcoms.
CBS otherwise made it a clean sweep Tuesday with Elementary (312,457 viewers), although ABC’s competing 9 p.m. premiere of the Texas-set Killer Women managed to survive with a runner-up 149,127 viewers.
Among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, Killer Women inched up to a three-way for first place at 9 p.m. with NBC’s Chicago Fire and Fox4’s local newscast. NCIS also won with 18-to-49-year-olds while Fox’s 8 p.m. episode of New Girl took the top spot from 8 to 8:30 p.m. before Intelligence ran first with its second half-hour.
In the four-way local news derby results, CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m., but WFAA8 prevailed among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 notched another pair of 6 a.m. wins and also took the 5 and 6 p.m. golds among 25-to-54-year-olds.
NBC5 and CBS11 respectively had the most total viewers at 5 and 6 p.m.
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It’ll have to fend for itself next week. But CBS’ new Intelligence is a hit for now thanks to a big helping hand from the network’s preceding NCIS.
TV’s most popular drama series again led all of Tuesday’s prime-time programming with 504,192 D-FW viewers in the 7 p.m. hour. Intelligence, starring Josh Holloway as a computer-chipped man of action, then easily won its 8 p.m. slot with 418,977 viewers.
Intelligence now moves to its regular Monday 9 p.m. perch, where it will face tougher competition from NBC’s The Blacklist and ABC’s Castle while also getting much weaker lead-ins from CBS’ roster of sitcoms.
CBS otherwise made it a clean sweep Tuesday with Elementary (312,457 viewers), although ABC’s competing 9 p.m. premiere of the Texas-set Killer Women managed to survive with a runner-up 149,127 viewers.
Among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, Killer Women inched up to a three-way for first place at 9 p.m. with NBC’s Chicago Fire and Fox4’s local newscast. NCIS also won with 18-to-49-year-olds while Fox’s 8 p.m. episode of New Girl took the top spot from 8 to 8:30 p.m. before Intelligence ran first with its second half-hour.
In the four-way local news derby results, CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m., but WFAA8 prevailed among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 notched another pair of 6 a.m. wins and also took the 5 and 6 p.m. golds among 25-to-54-year-olds.
NBC5 and CBS11 respectively had the most total viewers at 5 and 6 p.m.
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Mark Hayes out as NBC5's early morning co-anchor (updated with statement from Hayes)
01/08/14 10:55 AM
Mark Hayes and incumbent Deborah Ferguson during his May 7, 2012 debut on NBC5’s weekday early morning newscast. Photo: Ed Bark
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
After less than two years with NBC5, weekday early morning co-anchor Mark Hayes is no longer with the Fort Worth-based station. His biography already has been scrubbed from the station’s website.
Vice president of programming Brian Hocker confirmed Hayes’ exit Wednesday but declined to elaborate.
“I’m not going to say anything more than he’s no longer with us,” Hocker told unclebarky.com. “We are working on a replacement.”
Hayes, who made his on-air debut with NBC5 on May 7, 2012, emailed a statement Wednesday afternoon.
“After careful consideration and discussion with NBC5 management, we have mutually decided to part ways and end my tenure as co-anchor of NBC5 Today,” Hayes said. “My family and I have certainly adored being a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth community and have made some wonderful friends since our arrival.
“I’ve enjoyed and appreciated the opportunity to play a major role at such a well-respected news operation and thank the viewers for their support. I’m grateful to (vice president of news) Susan Tully and all the managers at NBC5 for the opportunity and look forward to continuing my career in television news.”
Several sources say Hayes’ departure may have been tied to an internal clash with news management on what constituted “good TV.” Sources say that early morning executive producer Tim Livingston, who joined NBC5 in January 2012, has been transferred to another position in tandem with Hayes’ departure.
NBC5 weekend morning anchor Lindsay Wilcox took Hayes’ place on Tuesday’s waker upper and also co-anchored with longtime co-anchor Deborah Ferguson on Wednesday’s edition.
Hayes joined NBC5 from WAGA-TV in Atlanta after 10 years as that station’s weekday early morning anchor. In the November “sweeps” ratings period, NBC5 ran a close third behind WFAA8 in the 6 to 7 a.m. Nielsen ratings, with Fox4 remaining a dominant No. 1.
NBC5 has lost two other reporters in recent weeks. Omar Villafranca left the station this month to become the Dallas-based correspondent for CBS Newspath. Keaton Fox, who worked the early morning shift with Hayes, departed late last year and now is a weekend anchor and weekend reporter for Oklahoma City’s Fox affiliate, KOKH-TV.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., Jan. 6) -- BCS football finale rolls up score
01/07/14 11:02 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
College football’s last BCS championship game swept Monday’s nighttime Nielsens from its 7:33 p.m. start to 11:04 p.m. finish.
Florida State’s dramatic 34-31 comeback win over underdog Auburn averaged 617,813 D-FW viewers on ESPN. That’s an imposing crowd, although still smallish compared to the 1,093,600 viewers for Sunday’s San Francisco 49ers-Green Bay Packers wild card game on Fox. Matter of fact, three of the weekend’s four NFL wild card matchups had bigger D-FW audiences than college football’s showcase season-ender. (See the preceding “Snapshot.”)
ESPN isn’t going ratings hungry, though. Competing programs that fell well short of Florida State-Auburn included ABC’s two-hour Season 18 premiere of The Bachelor (220,140 viewers) and CBS’ two-part finale of Hostages (127,823 and 113,621 viewers). A new 9 p.m. hour of ABC’s Castle was the night’s biggest non-football draw with 248,546 viewers.
NBC punted with three repeats of The Blacklist. The 7 to 9 p.m. bloc scored highest with 120,722 viewers apiece. Fox’s new 7 p.m. episode of Almost Human, half of which avoided direct competition with football, drew a respectable 213,039 viewers. The network then threw a Sleepy Hollow rerun to the wolves. It emerged with just 78,114 viewers.
In Monday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 ran first at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 likewise swept the 6 a.m. competitions while NBC5 muscled up with doubleheader wins at both 5 and 6 p.m.
It was an especially dismal day for WFAA8’s 4 p.m. local newscast, which is still trying to gain traction opposite established local news hours on NBC5 and CBS11 and Fox4’s long-running Judge Judy.
WFAA8 had 35,507 total viewers in the 4 p.m. hour Monday, with 3,047 of them in the 25-to-54 demographic. That put it a very distant fifth in total viewers (behind Fox4, NBC5, CBS11 and MY 27’s Meet the Browns) and sixth with 25-to-54-year-olds (also trailing TXA21’s The People’s Court).
KTXD-TV (Ch. 47) came up even emptier with its locally produced programming. The Broadcast (9 to 11 a.m.), The Texas Daily (6 to 7 p.m.) and a 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Texas Daily repeat all recorded “hashmarks” (no measurable audience).
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College football’s last BCS championship game swept Monday’s nighttime Nielsens from its 7:33 p.m. start to 11:04 p.m. finish.
Florida State’s dramatic 34-31 comeback win over underdog Auburn averaged 617,813 D-FW viewers on ESPN. That’s an imposing crowd, although still smallish compared to the 1,093,600 viewers for Sunday’s San Francisco 49ers-Green Bay Packers wild card game on Fox. Matter of fact, three of the weekend’s four NFL wild card matchups had bigger D-FW audiences than college football’s showcase season-ender. (See the preceding “Snapshot.”)
ESPN isn’t going ratings hungry, though. Competing programs that fell well short of Florida State-Auburn included ABC’s two-hour Season 18 premiere of The Bachelor (220,140 viewers) and CBS’ two-part finale of Hostages (127,823 and 113,621 viewers). A new 9 p.m. hour of ABC’s Castle was the night’s biggest non-football draw with 248,546 viewers.
NBC punted with three repeats of The Blacklist. The 7 to 9 p.m. bloc scored highest with 120,722 viewers apiece. Fox’s new 7 p.m. episode of Almost Human, half of which avoided direct competition with football, drew a respectable 213,039 viewers. The network then threw a Sleepy Hollow rerun to the wolves. It emerged with just 78,114 viewers.
In Monday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 ran first at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 likewise swept the 6 a.m. competitions while NBC5 muscled up with doubleheader wins at both 5 and 6 p.m.
It was an especially dismal day for WFAA8’s 4 p.m. local newscast, which is still trying to gain traction opposite established local news hours on NBC5 and CBS11 and Fox4’s long-running Judge Judy.
WFAA8 had 35,507 total viewers in the 4 p.m. hour Monday, with 3,047 of them in the 25-to-54 demographic. That put it a very distant fifth in total viewers (behind Fox4, NBC5, CBS11 and MY 27’s Meet the Browns) and sixth with 25-to-54-year-olds (also trailing TXA21’s The People’s Court).
KTXD-TV (Ch. 47) came up even emptier with its locally produced programming. The Broadcast (9 to 11 a.m.), The Texas Daily (6 to 7 p.m.) and a 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Texas Daily repeat all recorded “hashmarks” (no measurable audience).
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Jan. 3-5) -- 49ers-Packers top weekend NFL wild card numbers
01/06/14 05:31 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Fox’s Sunday afternoon/evening chiller-thriller between the San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers easily topped all weekend TV attractions.
In fact, the 49ers’ 23-20 win averaged more D-FW viewers -- 1,093,600 -- than six of the Dallas Cowboys’ 16 regular season games while tying the Sept. 29th matchup with the San Diego Chargers for 10th on the list. Another person that might leave cold: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
Also on Sunday, CBS’ preceding San Diego Chargers-Cincinnati Bengals wild card game drew 639,117 viewers. It was the only one-sided matchup of the weekend’s four NFL games, with San Diego a 27-10 winner.
Saturday’s New Orleans Saints-Philadelphia Eagles game on NBC came in second with an average of 837,953 viewers. The Saints prevailed 26-24. And the preceding Indianapolis Colts’ rally from a 28-point second half deficit against the Kansas City Chiefs clocked in at 561,003 viewers on NBC to rank last despite the video game-ish 45-44 outcome.
On Friday night, the Cotton Bowl on Fox from Jerry’s Palace easily outdrew ESPN’s competing Orange Bowl. Missouri-Oklahoma State averaged 347,964 viewers and Clemson-Ohio State had 184,634.
In non-football TV -- and there actually was some of that -- PBS’ two-hour Season 4 launch of Downton Abbey had a nice-sized 198,836 viewers from 8 to 10 p.m. on KERA13. That beat all competing programming except CBS’ The Mentalist, which drew 255,647 viewers in the 9 p.m. hour.
Here are Friday’s four-way local news derby results:
WFAA8 led a downsized three-competitor field at 10 p.m. (Fox4 still had football) in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. Nielsens and added a 5 p.m. win in the 25-to-54 demographic.
WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and also ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds at 6 p.m. CBS11 was tops at 6 p.m. in total viewers.
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Fox’s Sunday afternoon/evening chiller-thriller between the San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers easily topped all weekend TV attractions.
In fact, the 49ers’ 23-20 win averaged more D-FW viewers -- 1,093,600 -- than six of the Dallas Cowboys’ 16 regular season games while tying the Sept. 29th matchup with the San Diego Chargers for 10th on the list. Another person that might leave cold: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
Also on Sunday, CBS’ preceding San Diego Chargers-Cincinnati Bengals wild card game drew 639,117 viewers. It was the only one-sided matchup of the weekend’s four NFL games, with San Diego a 27-10 winner.
Saturday’s New Orleans Saints-Philadelphia Eagles game on NBC came in second with an average of 837,953 viewers. The Saints prevailed 26-24. And the preceding Indianapolis Colts’ rally from a 28-point second half deficit against the Kansas City Chiefs clocked in at 561,003 viewers on NBC to rank last despite the video game-ish 45-44 outcome.
On Friday night, the Cotton Bowl on Fox from Jerry’s Palace easily outdrew ESPN’s competing Orange Bowl. Missouri-Oklahoma State averaged 347,964 viewers and Clemson-Ohio State had 184,634.
In non-football TV -- and there actually was some of that -- PBS’ two-hour Season 4 launch of Downton Abbey had a nice-sized 198,836 viewers from 8 to 10 p.m. on KERA13. That beat all competing programming except CBS’ The Mentalist, which drew 255,647 viewers in the 9 p.m. hour.
Here are Friday’s four-way local news derby results:
WFAA8 led a downsized three-competitor field at 10 p.m. (Fox4 still had football) in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. Nielsens and added a 5 p.m. win in the 25-to-54 demographic.
WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and also ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds at 6 p.m. CBS11 was tops at 6 p.m. in total viewers.
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Last one out: Amanda Salinas leaves CW33 for morning anchor job in Austin
01/06/14 01:11 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Amanda Salinas, who joined Dallas-based CW33 in February 2009 as part of an effort to overhaul the Tribune-owned station’s 9 p.m. newscasts, is the last of the original four-member anchor team to make an exit.
After remaining at CW33 to be part of the Nightcap edition (also soon to be canceled), Salinas is heading to Fox-owned KTVC-TV in Austin. Starting on Jan. 20th, she’ll join the Good Day Austin morning team of Dave Froelich, Zack Shields and Ken Bellacosa.
In a publicity release, the station said Salinas also will co-anchor KTBC’s noon newscast with Froelich.
“I thank God for the experience in Dallas and for the opportunity in Austin,” Salinas said in emailed comments to unclebarky.com. “My family and I are very happy.”
Salinas earlier told austin360.com (in partnership with The Austin-American Statesman) that “joining KTBC is a dream come true.” KTBC’s announcement describes the University of Texas grad as “the ideal person to lead our morning newscast and provide our viewers with the information they need to navigate their day.”
Nightcap premiered on CW33 in November 2012 as a comedy-infused spin-off the station’s early morning Eye Opener, which remains in place. Salinas, news anchor Walt Maciborski, meteorologist Rebecca Miller and sports anchor Dave Crome originally fronted a somewhat more conventional 9 p.m. newscast orchestrated by former WFAA8 news director David Duitch. After making numerous personnel changes and heavily incorporating “social media” into CW33’s newscasts, Duitch left after four oft-volatile years to join The Dallas Morning News in July 2012 as the editor of dallasnews.com.
Now Nightcap also is a lame duck, with its “Different Kind of News” set to be supplanted sometime early this year by the anchor-less NewsFix, currently in view on Houston’s Tribune-owned KIAH-TV (CW39).
Salinas and Maciborski originally replaced the longstanding CW33 anchor team of Tom Crespo and Terri Chappelle. Before joining CW33, Salinas hosted Dallas-based WFAA8’s since canceled La Vida program. She left WFAA8 in the summer of 2004 and arrived at CW33 in 2009 from WPBF-TV, the ABC station in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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First exit of New Year: NBC5 reporter Omar Villafranca (updated)
01/04/14 12:48 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
NBC5, which logged the last reporter departure of 2013, now has the first of the New Year.
Omar Villafranca, who joined the Fort Worth-based station in January 2008, will remain in North Texas, though. He’s moving over to CBS News, Villafranca tweeted, to become the Dallas-based correspondent for the network’s Newspath. Villafranca’s turf also will include the Southwest region.
“The official announcement should come from CBS next week,” Villafranca said in an email reply to unclebarky.com. “As far as my parting thoughts, it’s been a great six years at NBC5. I’d like to thank (vice president of news) Susan Tully for hiring me, and everyone else for putting up with me. I was lucky to work with so many great managers, editors, reporters, producers and photojournalists. Especially the photojournalists.”
The Texas Christian University grad previously spent three years as an anchor/reporter at CBS affiliate KOTV-TV in Tulsa, OK. He primarily worked the night shift at NBC5 and filed his last report for the station during the Friday, Jan. 3rd 10 p.m. newscast.
NBC5 lost reporter Keaton Fox in late December. He’s returned to Oklahoma City and now is a weekend anchor and weekday reporter for Fox affiliate KOKH-TV.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues.-Thurs., Dec. 31-Jan. 2) -- sweet numbers for Sugar Bowl
01/03/14 11:37 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Oklahoma’s upset 45-31 Sugar Bowl win over Alabama drove ESPN’s ratings into over-drive Thursday night.
Running all the way to 11:24 p.m. -- even though the Sooners gained the bulk of their yards passing -- the Sugar Bowl averaged 589,408 D-FW viewers in dominating the prime-time field of play.
Left for dead in the 9 p.m. hour was sister network ABC’s premiere of the Cold War CIA drama The Assets. It drew just 85,216 viewers to trail football and competing programming on CBS and NBC plus Fox4’s local newscast.
NBC fared even worse with the return of Community from 7 to 8 p.m. It had 63,912 viewers opposite new episodes of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory (461,585) and The Millers (262,748).
New Year’s Day’s biggest football attraction, heavily favored Baylor’s loss to Central Florida in the Fiesta Bowl, averaged 454,483 viewers on ESPN. The network’s preceding Rose Bowl, in which Michigan State edged Stanford, ranked close behind with 418,977 viewers.
ESPNU’s 11 a.m.-starting Heart of Dallas bowl -- in which the University of North Texas whipped UNLV -- averaged 106,520 viewers. That fell short of ESPN’s daytime LSU-Iowa matchup (205,938 viewers) and ABC’s South Carolina-Wisconsin game (120,722). But UNT-UNLV beat the Nebraska-Georgia bowl game on ESPN2 (63,912 viewers).
The New Year’s Eve bowl parade was paced by Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel-fueled second half comeback against Duke. It averaged 383,470 viewers on ESPN.
CBS’ daytime presentation of El Paso’s Sun Bowl, in which UCLA thrashed Virginia Tech, barely registered with 49,709 viewers.
From 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., WFAA8’s annual live Big D NYE telecast from Victory Plaza drew a very nice-sized 284,052 viewers. Among competing attractions, only the last half-hour of the A&M-Duke game did better before WFAA8 took charge from 11 p.m. until closing.
LOCAL TV NEWS NOTE
The Dallas Morning News wasted no time in ringing out the old in Wednesday’s New Year’s Day edition.
The Metro section’s weather page immediately celebrated the paper’s new content-sharing agreement with NBC5 by eclipsing the beaming faces of WFAA8’s forecasters from the upper left-hand corner. Now pictured are six beaming NBC5 meteorologists. From left to right: head weatherman Rick Mitchell and fellow temperature takers Remeisha Shade, Lindsay Riley, David Finfrock, Samantha Davies and Grant Johnston.
WFAA8, still located a shared driveway away from The News in downtown Dallas, is now engaged in a modern day Cold War with its former longtime synergistic ally.
In Thursday’s local news derby ratings, the first of the new year after holiday exemptions, WFAA8 laughed last with 10 p.m. wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
But NBC5 swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added a 5 p.m. first in total viewers. CBS11 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m. while Fox4 topped both early evening newscasts in the 25-to-54 demographic.
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Oklahoma’s upset 45-31 Sugar Bowl win over Alabama drove ESPN’s ratings into over-drive Thursday night.
Running all the way to 11:24 p.m. -- even though the Sooners gained the bulk of their yards passing -- the Sugar Bowl averaged 589,408 D-FW viewers in dominating the prime-time field of play.
Left for dead in the 9 p.m. hour was sister network ABC’s premiere of the Cold War CIA drama The Assets. It drew just 85,216 viewers to trail football and competing programming on CBS and NBC plus Fox4’s local newscast.
NBC fared even worse with the return of Community from 7 to 8 p.m. It had 63,912 viewers opposite new episodes of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory (461,585) and The Millers (262,748).
New Year’s Day’s biggest football attraction, heavily favored Baylor’s loss to Central Florida in the Fiesta Bowl, averaged 454,483 viewers on ESPN. The network’s preceding Rose Bowl, in which Michigan State edged Stanford, ranked close behind with 418,977 viewers.
ESPNU’s 11 a.m.-starting Heart of Dallas bowl -- in which the University of North Texas whipped UNLV -- averaged 106,520 viewers. That fell short of ESPN’s daytime LSU-Iowa matchup (205,938 viewers) and ABC’s South Carolina-Wisconsin game (120,722). But UNT-UNLV beat the Nebraska-Georgia bowl game on ESPN2 (63,912 viewers).
The New Year’s Eve bowl parade was paced by Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel-fueled second half comeback against Duke. It averaged 383,470 viewers on ESPN.
CBS’ daytime presentation of El Paso’s Sun Bowl, in which UCLA thrashed Virginia Tech, barely registered with 49,709 viewers.
From 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., WFAA8’s annual live Big D NYE telecast from Victory Plaza drew a very nice-sized 284,052 viewers. Among competing attractions, only the last half-hour of the A&M-Duke game did better before WFAA8 took charge from 11 p.m. until closing.
LOCAL TV NEWS NOTE
The Dallas Morning News wasted no time in ringing out the old in Wednesday’s New Year’s Day edition.
The Metro section’s weather page immediately celebrated the paper’s new content-sharing agreement with NBC5 by eclipsing the beaming faces of WFAA8’s forecasters from the upper left-hand corner. Now pictured are six beaming NBC5 meteorologists. From left to right: head weatherman Rick Mitchell and fellow temperature takers Remeisha Shade, Lindsay Riley, David Finfrock, Samantha Davies and Grant Johnston.
WFAA8, still located a shared driveway away from The News in downtown Dallas, is now engaged in a modern day Cold War with its former longtime synergistic ally.
In Thursday’s local news derby ratings, the first of the new year after holiday exemptions, WFAA8 laughed last with 10 p.m. wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
But NBC5 swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added a 5 p.m. first in total viewers. CBS11 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m. while Fox4 topped both early evening newscasts in the 25-to-54 demographic.
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