Sep 2013
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Sept. 27-29) -- oh boy oh boy oh boy -- Cowboys, Rangers, Breaking Bad
09/30/13 01:57 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
The Dallas Cowboys slipped back past the one million viewers mark after dropping below it last week while the Texas Rangers do-or-die march toward Monday night’s elimination game bulked up when it ended opposite halftime of Cowboys-Chargers.
The overall numbers for both attractions were boosted by annual revisions in Nielsen Media Research’s D-FW population estimates, with the higher numbers officially going into effect on Saturday. Each rating point now is worth 71,013 viewers, up from 68,842.
Undermanned San Diego rose up to dismantle Dallas in the second half of the game en route to a 30-21 victory while the Rangers beat the Angels 6-2 to force Monday night’s matchup with Tampa Bay for the right to face Cleveland in Wednesday’s Wild Card “play-in” game.
Cowboys-Chargers, which ran until 6:28 p.m. on Fox, averaged 1,093,600 viewers with a peak crowd of 1,214,322 between 6 and 6:15 p.m. Rangers-Angels, which ended at 5:05 p.m. on Fox Sports Southwest, averaged 220,140 viewers. The end of the game coincided with halftime of the Cowboys game, boosting the Rangers numbers to 284,052 viewers while halftime had 1,065,195 viewers. Still, that’s not all that much of a switch-over. Baseball town? Still gotta go some.
On AMC Sunday night, the 75-minute series finale of Breaking Bad beat the Rangers overall game average with 284,052 viewers, including a very robust 201,915 of them in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-old demographic. But BB couldn’t beat NBC’s directly competing New England Patriots-Atlanta Falcons game, which had 553,901 total viewers from 8 to 9:15 p.m. with 301,873 in the 18-to-49 motherlode.
ABC’s premiere of the new drama series Betrayal came up largely empty at 9 p.m., running fifth in its time slot with 113,621 viewers. It moved up to a fourth place tie with CBS’ The Mentalistamong 18-to-49-year-olds.
In Sunday’s early NFL games, Fox’s Seahawks-Texans clash had 433,179 total viewers in easily besting CBS’ competing Vikings-Steelers game (177,533 viewers).
Saturday’s college football cavalcade was led by CBS’ Georgia-LSU square-off, which averaged 248,546 viewers to out-point A&M’s latest “Johnny Football” extravaganza against Arkansas on ESPN2 (205,938 viewers). The Ohio State Buckeyes’ win over Uncle Barky’s gritty alma mater Bucky Badgers drew 120,722 viewers in prime-time on ABC.
Friday’s prime-time Nielsens were paced by the Rangers-Angels game, which averaged a nice-sized 269,849 viewers. Over on Fox, the 7 p.m. premiere of Junior Masterchef had 99,418 viewers to finish second in the Big 4 broadcast network universe behind CBS’ Undercover Boss (198,836 viewers). The two shows likewise ran one-two from 7 to 8 p.m. with 18-to-49-year-olds among the attractions on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox.
Here are Friday’s four-way local news derby results:
Fox4 had a big day, winning at both 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. The station also topped the 25-to-54 demographic at 6 and 10 p.m.
WFAA8 took the remaining two golds, logging the most total viewers at 6 and 10 p.m.
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The Dallas Cowboys slipped back past the one million viewers mark after dropping below it last week while the Texas Rangers do-or-die march toward Monday night’s elimination game bulked up when it ended opposite halftime of Cowboys-Chargers.
The overall numbers for both attractions were boosted by annual revisions in Nielsen Media Research’s D-FW population estimates, with the higher numbers officially going into effect on Saturday. Each rating point now is worth 71,013 viewers, up from 68,842.
Undermanned San Diego rose up to dismantle Dallas in the second half of the game en route to a 30-21 victory while the Rangers beat the Angels 6-2 to force Monday night’s matchup with Tampa Bay for the right to face Cleveland in Wednesday’s Wild Card “play-in” game.
Cowboys-Chargers, which ran until 6:28 p.m. on Fox, averaged 1,093,600 viewers with a peak crowd of 1,214,322 between 6 and 6:15 p.m. Rangers-Angels, which ended at 5:05 p.m. on Fox Sports Southwest, averaged 220,140 viewers. The end of the game coincided with halftime of the Cowboys game, boosting the Rangers numbers to 284,052 viewers while halftime had 1,065,195 viewers. Still, that’s not all that much of a switch-over. Baseball town? Still gotta go some.
On AMC Sunday night, the 75-minute series finale of Breaking Bad beat the Rangers overall game average with 284,052 viewers, including a very robust 201,915 of them in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-old demographic. But BB couldn’t beat NBC’s directly competing New England Patriots-Atlanta Falcons game, which had 553,901 total viewers from 8 to 9:15 p.m. with 301,873 in the 18-to-49 motherlode.
ABC’s premiere of the new drama series Betrayal came up largely empty at 9 p.m., running fifth in its time slot with 113,621 viewers. It moved up to a fourth place tie with CBS’ The Mentalistamong 18-to-49-year-olds.
In Sunday’s early NFL games, Fox’s Seahawks-Texans clash had 433,179 total viewers in easily besting CBS’ competing Vikings-Steelers game (177,533 viewers).
Saturday’s college football cavalcade was led by CBS’ Georgia-LSU square-off, which averaged 248,546 viewers to out-point A&M’s latest “Johnny Football” extravaganza against Arkansas on ESPN2 (205,938 viewers). The Ohio State Buckeyes’ win over Uncle Barky’s gritty alma mater Bucky Badgers drew 120,722 viewers in prime-time on ABC.
Friday’s prime-time Nielsens were paced by the Rangers-Angels game, which averaged a nice-sized 269,849 viewers. Over on Fox, the 7 p.m. premiere of Junior Masterchef had 99,418 viewers to finish second in the Big 4 broadcast network universe behind CBS’ Undercover Boss (198,836 viewers). The two shows likewise ran one-two from 7 to 8 p.m. with 18-to-49-year-olds among the attractions on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox.
Here are Friday’s four-way local news derby results:
Fox4 had a big day, winning at both 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. The station also topped the 25-to-54 demographic at 6 and 10 p.m.
WFAA8 took the remaining two golds, logging the most total viewers at 6 and 10 p.m.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs., Sept. 26) -- rockin' Robin
09/27/13 11:15 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Buoyed by a double-shot lead-in from two new Big Bang Theory episodes, Robin Williams’ new CBS sitcom The Crazy Ones destroyed NBC’s competing The Michael J. Fox Show on Night 4 of the new fall season.
CBS also dominated prime-time’s other hours. Here’s the hour-by-hour breakdown:
7 to 8 P.M.
The Big Bang Theory drew 433,705 and 440,589 D-FW viewers for its first two episodes of the fall season. Fox’s The X Factor (165,221) ran far behind in second place, followed by ABC’s repeat of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (82,610) and NBC’s one-hour season debut of Parks and Recreation (61,958).
It was the same order of finish with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds.
8 to 9 P.M.
The Crazy Ones opened with 413,052 total viewers from 8 to 8:30 p.m. while the first of two Michael J. Fox Show episodes managed 154,895. CBS’ season premiere of Two and a Half Men then whipped Michael J. by a score of 268,484 viewers to 120,474. Although improving on its meager lead-in from Parks & Recreation, the first two episodes of Michael J. also ran behind ABC’s first hour of Grey’s Anatomy (185,873 viewers) and Fox’s Glee (165,221).
CBS likewise took the full hour among 18-to-49-year-olds, with Michael J. again ranking fourth.
9 to 10 P.M.
CBS took a victory lap with the season premiere of Elementary, which had 247,831 total viewers in beating the second hour of Grey’s Anatomy (192,758), Fox4’s local newscast (144,568) and NBC’s new season launch of Parenthood (117,031) trailed the field.
Elementary nipped Grey’s Anatomy for first place in the 18-to-49 demographic while Parenthood moved up to third place.
On the cable sports front, the Texas Rangers’ do-or-die home win over the Angels had 178,989 total viewers on Fox Sports Southwest, with Jurickson Profar ending matters with a ninth inning walk-off homer. The NFL Network’s 49ers-Ram game ran a bit behind with an overall average of 165,221 viewers.
Here are Thursday’s local news derby numbers:
CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while WFAA8 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 once again pounded bumps on its early morning rivals with a pair of 6 a.m. wins. The station also swept the 5 p.m. competitions.
WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m. and tied Fox4 for the top spot among 25-to-54-year-olds.
LOCAL TV NEWS NOTE
NBC5, which signed on the air as WBAP-TV back on Sept. 29, 1948, has some anniversary gambits planned for Friday and Saturday.
During the Friday, Sept. 27th 4 p.m. newscast, longtime meteorologist David Finfrock will do the weather “retro-style with paper maps,” the station says. Finfrock learned this particular craft from the late, legendary Harold Taft, who hired him.
On Saturday at 9 a.m., Finfrock will host a half-hour special, NBC5 Turns 65. Among the commemorative pieces are Finfrock’s tribute to Taft and entertainment reporter Bobbie Wygant’s “tour to show us what it was like to be in a brand new building in 1948.”
Former NBC5 news staffers Bob Schieffer, Boyd Matson and Karen Hughes also will add their remembrances.
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Buoyed by a double-shot lead-in from two new Big Bang Theory episodes, Robin Williams’ new CBS sitcom The Crazy Ones destroyed NBC’s competing The Michael J. Fox Show on Night 4 of the new fall season.
CBS also dominated prime-time’s other hours. Here’s the hour-by-hour breakdown:
7 to 8 P.M.
The Big Bang Theory drew 433,705 and 440,589 D-FW viewers for its first two episodes of the fall season. Fox’s The X Factor (165,221) ran far behind in second place, followed by ABC’s repeat of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (82,610) and NBC’s one-hour season debut of Parks and Recreation (61,958).
It was the same order of finish with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds.
8 to 9 P.M.
The Crazy Ones opened with 413,052 total viewers from 8 to 8:30 p.m. while the first of two Michael J. Fox Show episodes managed 154,895. CBS’ season premiere of Two and a Half Men then whipped Michael J. by a score of 268,484 viewers to 120,474. Although improving on its meager lead-in from Parks & Recreation, the first two episodes of Michael J. also ran behind ABC’s first hour of Grey’s Anatomy (185,873 viewers) and Fox’s Glee (165,221).
CBS likewise took the full hour among 18-to-49-year-olds, with Michael J. again ranking fourth.
9 to 10 P.M.
CBS took a victory lap with the season premiere of Elementary, which had 247,831 total viewers in beating the second hour of Grey’s Anatomy (192,758), Fox4’s local newscast (144,568) and NBC’s new season launch of Parenthood (117,031) trailed the field.
Elementary nipped Grey’s Anatomy for first place in the 18-to-49 demographic while Parenthood moved up to third place.
On the cable sports front, the Texas Rangers’ do-or-die home win over the Angels had 178,989 total viewers on Fox Sports Southwest, with Jurickson Profar ending matters with a ninth inning walk-off homer. The NFL Network’s 49ers-Ram game ran a bit behind with an overall average of 165,221 viewers.
Here are Thursday’s local news derby numbers:
CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while WFAA8 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 once again pounded bumps on its early morning rivals with a pair of 6 a.m. wins. The station also swept the 5 p.m. competitions.
WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m. and tied Fox4 for the top spot among 25-to-54-year-olds.
LOCAL TV NEWS NOTE
NBC5, which signed on the air as WBAP-TV back on Sept. 29, 1948, has some anniversary gambits planned for Friday and Saturday.
During the Friday, Sept. 27th 4 p.m. newscast, longtime meteorologist David Finfrock will do the weather “retro-style with paper maps,” the station says. Finfrock learned this particular craft from the late, legendary Harold Taft, who hired him.
On Saturday at 9 a.m., Finfrock will host a half-hour special, NBC5 Turns 65. Among the commemorative pieces are Finfrock’s tribute to Taft and entertainment reporter Bobbie Wygant’s “tour to show us what it was like to be in a brand new building in 1948.”
Former NBC5 news staffers Bob Schieffer, Boyd Matson and Karen Hughes also will add their remembrances.
Email comments or questions to: unclebarky@verizon.net
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Sept. 25) -- evolution of Revolution from hit to bomb
09/26/13 10:26 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Last season’s biggest new drama hit, at least in the early going, now is poised to become one of the new season’s earliest cancellations.
Revolution’s expiration date may be tolling soon after Wednesday’s dismal Season 2 premiere. On the up side, CBS showed there’s still plenty of juice left in its longstanding Survivor franchise and the followup Criminal Minds. Here are the hour-by-hour breakdowns in the D-FW Nielsen ratings for Night 3 of the 2013-14 season.
7 to 8 P.M.
NBC’s night got off to a near-invisible start with just 82,610 viewers for Revolution. Survivor: Blood and Water won the hour with 247,831 viewers and ABC’s new season launch of The Middle edged Fox’s The X Factor from 7 to 7:30 p.m. by a score of 172,105 viewers to 158,337. X Factor (213,410 viewers then whipped ABC’s new Back in the Game (123,916 viewers) from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Survivor likewise easily won the hour among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds while X Factor tied The Middle for second place in this key demographic before keeping the silver medal to itself opposite No. 3 Back in the Game.
8 to 9 P.M.
CBS’ Criminal Minds had Wednesday’s biggest overall haul with 344,210 total viewers but was nipped by ABC’s competing one-hour Modern Family in the 18-to-49 measurement. The first hour of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU outdrew the second hour of X Factor to take the bronze in both ratings measurements.
9 to 10 P.M.
NBC finished the night strong with 227,179 total viewers for the second hour of Law & Order: SVU. CBS’ season premiere of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ran second with 213,410 viewers, with ABC’s return of Nashville a distant third (130,800 viewers) and Fox4’s local newscast lagging with 110,147 viewers.
Law & Order: SVU also took the gold among 18-to-49-year-olds while Fox4’s news moved up two notches into second place while CSI dropped to fourth behind Nashville.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers remained alive in the Wild Card race with another home win against the Astros. The game averaged 151,452 viewers.
Wednesday’s local news derby results went like this: CBS11 edged WFAA8 in total viewers at 10 p.m., but WFAA8 routed its three adversaries among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 piled up another pair of twin wins at 6 a.m. while WFAA8 swept the 6 p.m. competitions. NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and Fox4 led among 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Last season’s biggest new drama hit, at least in the early going, now is poised to become one of the new season’s earliest cancellations.
Revolution’s expiration date may be tolling soon after Wednesday’s dismal Season 2 premiere. On the up side, CBS showed there’s still plenty of juice left in its longstanding Survivor franchise and the followup Criminal Minds. Here are the hour-by-hour breakdowns in the D-FW Nielsen ratings for Night 3 of the 2013-14 season.
7 to 8 P.M.
NBC’s night got off to a near-invisible start with just 82,610 viewers for Revolution. Survivor: Blood and Water won the hour with 247,831 viewers and ABC’s new season launch of The Middle edged Fox’s The X Factor from 7 to 7:30 p.m. by a score of 172,105 viewers to 158,337. X Factor (213,410 viewers then whipped ABC’s new Back in the Game (123,916 viewers) from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Survivor likewise easily won the hour among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds while X Factor tied The Middle for second place in this key demographic before keeping the silver medal to itself opposite No. 3 Back in the Game.
8 to 9 P.M.
CBS’ Criminal Minds had Wednesday’s biggest overall haul with 344,210 total viewers but was nipped by ABC’s competing one-hour Modern Family in the 18-to-49 measurement. The first hour of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU outdrew the second hour of X Factor to take the bronze in both ratings measurements.
9 to 10 P.M.
NBC finished the night strong with 227,179 total viewers for the second hour of Law & Order: SVU. CBS’ season premiere of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ran second with 213,410 viewers, with ABC’s return of Nashville a distant third (130,800 viewers) and Fox4’s local newscast lagging with 110,147 viewers.
Law & Order: SVU also took the gold among 18-to-49-year-olds while Fox4’s news moved up two notches into second place while CSI dropped to fourth behind Nashville.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers remained alive in the Wild Card race with another home win against the Astros. The game averaged 151,452 viewers.
Wednesday’s local news derby results went like this: CBS11 edged WFAA8 in total viewers at 10 p.m., but WFAA8 routed its three adversaries among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 piled up another pair of twin wins at 6 a.m. while WFAA8 swept the 6 p.m. competitions. NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and Fox4 led among 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Sept. 24) -- diminishing returns for ABC's all-new lineup
09/25/13 11:21 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
ABC got solid sampling Tuesday night for its most heavily promoted new fall series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. But it wasn’t enough for the show to win its time slot. And not nearly enough to buoy the network’s three other new shows.
On Night Two of the new TV season, CBS overall ran the strongest in total D-FW viewers with its three-pronged crime-solving offensive of NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and Person of Interest on a new night. Fox for the most part lagged in fourth place with its rebuilt comedy night. Here are the particulars in each of the three one-hour prime-time blocs.
7 to 8 P.M.
The season premiere of NCIS finished a runaway No. 1 with 502,547 viewers. NBC’s first hour of The Voice ran second (289,136 viewers) while S.H.I.E.L.D. took the bronze (261,600). Fox finished well out of the money with second episodes of its freshman comedy combo, Dads (123,916) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (130,800).
The top prize among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds also went to the venerable NCIS, which nipped S.H.I.E.L.D. in this key demographic by a score of 165,849 viewers to 159,470. The Voice ran a solid third (140,337), leaving Dads (82,924) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (70,167) with relative scraps.
8 to 9 P.M.
Hour 2 of The Voice reigned in total viewers with 385,515, followed closely by NCIS: Los Angeles (357,978). ABC’s new comedy duo of The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife sagged to respective totals of 158,337 and 117,031 viewers, still good enough to outdraw Fox’s New Girl (117,031) and The Mindy Project (103,263).
The Voice and NCIS: L.A. also finished one-two with 18-to-49-year-olds. And Mindy Project moved up a notch to take third-place at 8:30 p.m. ahead of Trophy Wife.
9 to 10 P.M.
Person of Interest ran first in total viewers with 302,905, whipping NBC’s season premiere of Chicago Fire 199,641) while Fox4’s local newscast (117,031) slipped in ahead of ABC’s new Lucky 7 (96,379). It was the same order of finish in the 18-to-49 demographic.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers remained alive in the Wild Card chase with a 3-2 home win over Houston. The game drew 144,568 total viewers.
Here are Tuesday’s local news derby results:
CBS11 scored a doubleheader win at 10 p.m. with first place finishes in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 continued to dominate its rivals at 6 a.m. with another sweep. The station also ran the table at 5 p.m. and added a 6 p.m. win with 25-to-54-year-olds. NBC5 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m.
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ABC got solid sampling Tuesday night for its most heavily promoted new fall series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. But it wasn’t enough for the show to win its time slot. And not nearly enough to buoy the network’s three other new shows.
On Night Two of the new TV season, CBS overall ran the strongest in total D-FW viewers with its three-pronged crime-solving offensive of NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and Person of Interest on a new night. Fox for the most part lagged in fourth place with its rebuilt comedy night. Here are the particulars in each of the three one-hour prime-time blocs.
7 to 8 P.M.
The season premiere of NCIS finished a runaway No. 1 with 502,547 viewers. NBC’s first hour of The Voice ran second (289,136 viewers) while S.H.I.E.L.D. took the bronze (261,600). Fox finished well out of the money with second episodes of its freshman comedy combo, Dads (123,916) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (130,800).
The top prize among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds also went to the venerable NCIS, which nipped S.H.I.E.L.D. in this key demographic by a score of 165,849 viewers to 159,470. The Voice ran a solid third (140,337), leaving Dads (82,924) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (70,167) with relative scraps.
8 to 9 P.M.
Hour 2 of The Voice reigned in total viewers with 385,515, followed closely by NCIS: Los Angeles (357,978). ABC’s new comedy duo of The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife sagged to respective totals of 158,337 and 117,031 viewers, still good enough to outdraw Fox’s New Girl (117,031) and The Mindy Project (103,263).
The Voice and NCIS: L.A. also finished one-two with 18-to-49-year-olds. And Mindy Project moved up a notch to take third-place at 8:30 p.m. ahead of Trophy Wife.
9 to 10 P.M.
Person of Interest ran first in total viewers with 302,905, whipping NBC’s season premiere of Chicago Fire 199,641) while Fox4’s local newscast (117,031) slipped in ahead of ABC’s new Lucky 7 (96,379). It was the same order of finish in the 18-to-49 demographic.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers remained alive in the Wild Card chase with a 3-2 home win over Houston. The game drew 144,568 total viewers.
Here are Tuesday’s local news derby results:
CBS11 scored a doubleheader win at 10 p.m. with first place finishes in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 continued to dominate its rivals at 6 a.m. with another sweep. The station also ran the table at 5 p.m. and added a 6 p.m. win with 25-to-54-year-olds. NBC5 had the most total viewers at 6 p.m.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., Sep. 23) -- first night of the new TV season
09/24/13 10:07 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
TV’s new season officially got underway Monday. And before looking at how the Big Four broadcast networks stacked up, let’s note that none of them could beat ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
Peyton Manning’s demolition of the hapless Oakland Raiders led all prime-time programming with an average of 357,978 D-FW viewers. It also had the most advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds -- 194,553 of ‘em.
OK, now on to the broadcast network combat from 7 to 10 p.m.
7 to 8 P.M.
The return of NBC’s The Voice with its original four judges took the hour with 330,442 total viewers. ABC’s first half of Dancing with the Stars edged CBS’ one-hour season debut of How I Met Your Mother by a score of 220,294 viewers to 213,410 while Fox’s Bones lagged with 144,568.
The Voice also won easily among 18-to-49-year-olds, but HIMYM moved comfortably into second place ahead of DWTS. Bones again ran out of the money.
8 to 9 P.M.
The Voice again won in total viewers, with hour two of DWTS again finishing second. But Fox’s second episode of Sleepy Hollow showed resilience by improving significantly on Bones skimpy lead-in. Its 213,410 total viewers gave it the bronze ahead of CBS’ comedy combo of the returning 2 Broke Girls (158,337 viewers) and the new Mom (165,221 viewers).
Sleepy Hollow moved up to second place in the 18-to-49 demographic, with The Voice again easily winning and DWTS sliding to fourth place from 8:30 to 9 p.m. behind Mom.
9 to 10 P.M.
ABC’s venerable Castle won the hour with 268,484 total viewers, beating the premieres of NBC’s The Blacklist (240,947 viewers) and CBS’ Hostages (220,294 viewers).
Still, Hostages showed considerably more ratings punch. Its first 15 minutes drew 199,642 viewers after inheriting just 165,221 from the closing 15 minutes of Mom. Blacklist in contrast received a windfall of 337,326 viewers from The Voice but dropped to 275,368 in its initial 15 minutes. By 9:45 to 10 p.m., Hostages had further built its audience to 247,831 viewers while Blacklist dropped to 206,526 viewers. That’s a tune-in versus a tune-out, which bodes well for Hostages and not so well for Blacklist.
Among 18-to-49-year-olds, the full hours of Castle and Blacklist tied for first place with 92,493 viewers apiece. But by the closing 15-minute segment, Hostages was outdrawing Blacklist and tying Castle, which held its audience throughout the hour.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers’ rout of the woeful Houston Astros left them still breathing for a Wild Card berth. The game averaged 103,263 total viewers.
In Monday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 ran the table at 10 p.m. with wins in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions and also rang up first place finishes at 5 and 6 p.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds. NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and CBS11 ran first in that measurement at 6 p.m.
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TV’s new season officially got underway Monday. And before looking at how the Big Four broadcast networks stacked up, let’s note that none of them could beat ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
Peyton Manning’s demolition of the hapless Oakland Raiders led all prime-time programming with an average of 357,978 D-FW viewers. It also had the most advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds -- 194,553 of ‘em.
OK, now on to the broadcast network combat from 7 to 10 p.m.
7 to 8 P.M.
The return of NBC’s The Voice with its original four judges took the hour with 330,442 total viewers. ABC’s first half of Dancing with the Stars edged CBS’ one-hour season debut of How I Met Your Mother by a score of 220,294 viewers to 213,410 while Fox’s Bones lagged with 144,568.
The Voice also won easily among 18-to-49-year-olds, but HIMYM moved comfortably into second place ahead of DWTS. Bones again ran out of the money.
8 to 9 P.M.
The Voice again won in total viewers, with hour two of DWTS again finishing second. But Fox’s second episode of Sleepy Hollow showed resilience by improving significantly on Bones skimpy lead-in. Its 213,410 total viewers gave it the bronze ahead of CBS’ comedy combo of the returning 2 Broke Girls (158,337 viewers) and the new Mom (165,221 viewers).
Sleepy Hollow moved up to second place in the 18-to-49 demographic, with The Voice again easily winning and DWTS sliding to fourth place from 8:30 to 9 p.m. behind Mom.
9 to 10 P.M.
ABC’s venerable Castle won the hour with 268,484 total viewers, beating the premieres of NBC’s The Blacklist (240,947 viewers) and CBS’ Hostages (220,294 viewers).
Still, Hostages showed considerably more ratings punch. Its first 15 minutes drew 199,642 viewers after inheriting just 165,221 from the closing 15 minutes of Mom. Blacklist in contrast received a windfall of 337,326 viewers from The Voice but dropped to 275,368 in its initial 15 minutes. By 9:45 to 10 p.m., Hostages had further built its audience to 247,831 viewers while Blacklist dropped to 206,526 viewers. That’s a tune-in versus a tune-out, which bodes well for Hostages and not so well for Blacklist.
Among 18-to-49-year-olds, the full hours of Castle and Blacklist tied for first place with 92,493 viewers apiece. But by the closing 15-minute segment, Hostages was outdrawing Blacklist and tying Castle, which held its audience throughout the hour.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers’ rout of the woeful Houston Astros left them still breathing for a Wild Card berth. The game averaged 103,263 total viewers.
In Monday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 ran the table at 10 p.m. with wins in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions and also rang up first place finishes at 5 and 6 p.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds. NBC5 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m. and CBS11 ran first in that measurement at 6 p.m.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Sept. 20-22) -- dominant Cowboys don't get due respect
09/23/13 11:29 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
It was a beautiful day and an early noon kickoff, factors that usually don’t work in favor of Dallas Cowboys games.
Still, D-FW loves a big winner, which makes it puzzling why the Cowboys’ demolition of the Rams didn’t at least do better than last week’s road loss at Kansas City.
Instead the Cowboys recorded their first sub-one million TV audience of the new season, averaging 943,135 viewers locally for the 31-7 route of the Rams on Fox. That didn’t happen last season until Game 6, a lackluster 19-14 road win at Carolina on Fox that drew 950,020 D-FW viewers.
Cowboys-Rams, which ended at 2:53 p.m., hit a peak crowd of 1,094,588 viewers between 2:15 and 2:30 p.m. And it of course pounded all competing programming, including the Texas Rangers’ latest loss (68,842 viewers on Fox Sports Southwest).
Sunday’s second most-watched attraction, CBS’ Colts-49ers game followed by a run-over of the penalty-infested Jets-Bills joke, averaged a combined 468,126 viewers from 3:30 to 7 p.m. CBS’ prime-time Emmys telecast then dipped to 364,863 viewers, losing its time slot to NBC’s Sunday Night Football game between the Bears and Steelers (454,357 viewers).
AMC’s elongated penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, which ran from 8 to 9:15 p.m., drew 240,947 viewers, with 178,606 of them within the advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-old motherlode. That was good enough to beat the Emmys, which had 159,470 viewers in the 18-to-49 range from 8 to 9:15 p.m. Sunday Night Football led the way with 216,879 viewers in this key demographic.
Saturday’s big draw was ABC’s prime-time Texas-Kansas State game, which averaged 227,179 total viewers.
Friday night’s Texas Rangers game at Kansas City muscled up to rank as prime-time’s No. 1 attraction, with 254,715 viewers on TXA21.
ABC’s unveiling of all-new returning series was paced by Shark Tank, which had 172,105 viewers in Friday’s 8 p.m. hour. But CBS’ Undercover Boss had a higher yield, winning the 7 p.m. hour with 178,989 viewers in beating season debut episodes of ABC’s competing Last Man Standing (144,568 viewers) and The Neighbors (75,726). Last Man Standing edged the first half of Undercover Boss among 18-to-49-year-olds, but no Big 4 network programming came near the Rangers in that demographic.
Here are Friday’s local news derby results:
WFAA8 had twin wins at 10 p.m. in total viewers and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again ran the table at 6 a.m. while adding 5 and 6 p.m. wins in the 25-to-54 measurement.
The total viewer golds at 5 and 6 p.m. respectively went to NBC5 and WFAA8.
LOCAL TV PROGRAMMING NOTE
University of Texas at Arlington alum Charles Baker, best known as “Skinny Pete” on AMC’s Breaking Bad, will be sitting in with the band and playing piano on the Monday, Sept. 23rd edition of TBS’ Conan (10 p.m. central).
Baker, who cut his acting teeth in various D-FW stage productions, also stars in the short film Odds or Evens, directed and written by former CBS11 reporter Jay Gormley.
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It was a beautiful day and an early noon kickoff, factors that usually don’t work in favor of Dallas Cowboys games.
Still, D-FW loves a big winner, which makes it puzzling why the Cowboys’ demolition of the Rams didn’t at least do better than last week’s road loss at Kansas City.
Instead the Cowboys recorded their first sub-one million TV audience of the new season, averaging 943,135 viewers locally for the 31-7 route of the Rams on Fox. That didn’t happen last season until Game 6, a lackluster 19-14 road win at Carolina on Fox that drew 950,020 D-FW viewers.
Cowboys-Rams, which ended at 2:53 p.m., hit a peak crowd of 1,094,588 viewers between 2:15 and 2:30 p.m. And it of course pounded all competing programming, including the Texas Rangers’ latest loss (68,842 viewers on Fox Sports Southwest).
Sunday’s second most-watched attraction, CBS’ Colts-49ers game followed by a run-over of the penalty-infested Jets-Bills joke, averaged a combined 468,126 viewers from 3:30 to 7 p.m. CBS’ prime-time Emmys telecast then dipped to 364,863 viewers, losing its time slot to NBC’s Sunday Night Football game between the Bears and Steelers (454,357 viewers).
AMC’s elongated penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, which ran from 8 to 9:15 p.m., drew 240,947 viewers, with 178,606 of them within the advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-old motherlode. That was good enough to beat the Emmys, which had 159,470 viewers in the 18-to-49 range from 8 to 9:15 p.m. Sunday Night Football led the way with 216,879 viewers in this key demographic.
Saturday’s big draw was ABC’s prime-time Texas-Kansas State game, which averaged 227,179 total viewers.
Friday night’s Texas Rangers game at Kansas City muscled up to rank as prime-time’s No. 1 attraction, with 254,715 viewers on TXA21.
ABC’s unveiling of all-new returning series was paced by Shark Tank, which had 172,105 viewers in Friday’s 8 p.m. hour. But CBS’ Undercover Boss had a higher yield, winning the 7 p.m. hour with 178,989 viewers in beating season debut episodes of ABC’s competing Last Man Standing (144,568 viewers) and The Neighbors (75,726). Last Man Standing edged the first half of Undercover Boss among 18-to-49-year-olds, but no Big 4 network programming came near the Rangers in that demographic.
Here are Friday’s local news derby results:
WFAA8 had twin wins at 10 p.m. in total viewers and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again ran the table at 6 a.m. while adding 5 and 6 p.m. wins in the 25-to-54 measurement.
The total viewer golds at 5 and 6 p.m. respectively went to NBC5 and WFAA8.
LOCAL TV PROGRAMMING NOTE
University of Texas at Arlington alum Charles Baker, best known as “Skinny Pete” on AMC’s Breaking Bad, will be sitting in with the band and playing piano on the Monday, Sept. 23rd edition of TBS’ Conan (10 p.m. central).
Baker, who cut his acting teeth in various D-FW stage productions, also stars in the short film Odds or Evens, directed and written by former CBS11 reporter Jay Gormley.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs., Sept. 19) -- calm before the new fall season storm
09/20/13 11:30 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
It’s a pretty lackluster night in TV land when the most-watched prime-time attraction is a repeat of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory. But the new fall season officially rushes into view on Monday, which will mean plenty of ratings action.
Big Bang’s 234,062 viewers from 7 to 7:30 p.m. thumped competition from both Fox’s The X Factor (172,105 viewers for the full hour) and NBC’s finale of Million Second Quiz (103,263 viewers for the full two hours, with a dude named Andrew Kravis taking home $2.6 million).
In the Big Four broadcast network universe, CBS also won from 8 to 9 p.m. with reruns of Big Bang and Two and a Half Men before Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast topped that hour.
The winners among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds were The X Factor, ABC’s 8 p.m. Grey’s Anatomy repeat and Fox4’s news.
Cable also scored with a pair of pro sports matchups. The NFL Network’s Kansas City Chiefs-Philadelphia Eagles matchup had a nice-sized haul of 199,642 total viewers while the Texas Rangers’ much-needed gut-check win at Tampa Bay averaged 158,337 viewers on Fox Sports Southwest.
In the late night arena, The Arsenio Hall Show (carried in D-FW by CW33) is still hanging tough, particularly with 18-to-49-year-olds. Its second half-hour outdrew the first half-hours of both NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman. But ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live led the way in this key measurement and Fox4’s 10:30 p.m. edition of the syndicated TMZ placed second. (Beginning Monday, Fox4 will push TMZ back a half-hour and begin airing weeknight syndicated episodes of Modern Family.)
Here are Thursday’s local news derby results:
WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while tying Fox4 for the top spot with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 routinely swept the 6 a.m. competitions, although NBC5 was a pretty close second.
Both 6 p.m. golds went to WFAA8. At 5 p.m. NBC5 and CBS11 tied for the most total viewers and Fox4 finished first with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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It’s a pretty lackluster night in TV land when the most-watched prime-time attraction is a repeat of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory. But the new fall season officially rushes into view on Monday, which will mean plenty of ratings action.
Big Bang’s 234,062 viewers from 7 to 7:30 p.m. thumped competition from both Fox’s The X Factor (172,105 viewers for the full hour) and NBC’s finale of Million Second Quiz (103,263 viewers for the full two hours, with a dude named Andrew Kravis taking home $2.6 million).
In the Big Four broadcast network universe, CBS also won from 8 to 9 p.m. with reruns of Big Bang and Two and a Half Men before Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast topped that hour.
The winners among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds were The X Factor, ABC’s 8 p.m. Grey’s Anatomy repeat and Fox4’s news.
Cable also scored with a pair of pro sports matchups. The NFL Network’s Kansas City Chiefs-Philadelphia Eagles matchup had a nice-sized haul of 199,642 total viewers while the Texas Rangers’ much-needed gut-check win at Tampa Bay averaged 158,337 viewers on Fox Sports Southwest.
In the late night arena, The Arsenio Hall Show (carried in D-FW by CW33) is still hanging tough, particularly with 18-to-49-year-olds. Its second half-hour outdrew the first half-hours of both NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman. But ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live led the way in this key measurement and Fox4’s 10:30 p.m. edition of the syndicated TMZ placed second. (Beginning Monday, Fox4 will push TMZ back a half-hour and begin airing weeknight syndicated episodes of Modern Family.)
Here are Thursday’s local news derby results:
WFAA8 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while tying Fox4 for the top spot with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 routinely swept the 6 a.m. competitions, although NBC5 was a pretty close second.
Both 6 p.m. golds went to WFAA8. At 5 p.m. NBC5 and CBS11 tied for the most total viewers and Fox4 finished first with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Sept. 18) -- CBS rolls with Survivor season premiere, Big Brother season finale
09/19/13 11:05 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
The address was CBS Wednesday on a night when two rival “talent competition” shows took a pounding.
The network’s 90-minute Season Umpteen premiere of Survivor (subtitled “Blood and Water”) drew a league-leading 296,021 D-FW viewers before CBS’ 8:30 to 10 p.m. wrap-up of the latest Big Brother likewise won its time slot with 220,294 viewers.
Both of the long-running cutthroat competitions also prevailed among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, giving CBS a clean sweep of the prime-time terrain.
NBC’s 8 to 10 p.m. season finale of America’s Got Talent took the biggest lumps after slumping for much of the summer. It had just 137,684 total viewers in finishing third behind CBS, Fox’s second hour of The X Factor (172,105 viewers) and Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast (also 172,105 viewers). It was the same order of finish with 18-to-49-year-olds. ABC punted with wall-to-wall reruns while NBC otherwise played out the string with Million Second Quiz, a colossal, multi-night failure that this time out had just 68,842 viewers from 7 to 8 p.m.
Here are Wednesday’s local news derby results:
WFAA8 and CBS11 tied for the most total viewers at 10 p.m., with WFAA8 alone on top with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions. CBS11 had the most total viewers at both 5 and 6 p.m. while WFAA8 reigned at those hours with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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The address was CBS Wednesday on a night when two rival “talent competition” shows took a pounding.
The network’s 90-minute Season Umpteen premiere of Survivor (subtitled “Blood and Water”) drew a league-leading 296,021 D-FW viewers before CBS’ 8:30 to 10 p.m. wrap-up of the latest Big Brother likewise won its time slot with 220,294 viewers.
Both of the long-running cutthroat competitions also prevailed among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, giving CBS a clean sweep of the prime-time terrain.
NBC’s 8 to 10 p.m. season finale of America’s Got Talent took the biggest lumps after slumping for much of the summer. It had just 137,684 total viewers in finishing third behind CBS, Fox’s second hour of The X Factor (172,105 viewers) and Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast (also 172,105 viewers). It was the same order of finish with 18-to-49-year-olds. ABC punted with wall-to-wall reruns while NBC otherwise played out the string with Million Second Quiz, a colossal, multi-night failure that this time out had just 68,842 viewers from 7 to 8 p.m.
Here are Wednesday’s local news derby results:
WFAA8 and CBS11 tied for the most total viewers at 10 p.m., with WFAA8 alone on top with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions. CBS11 had the most total viewers at both 5 and 6 p.m. while WFAA8 reigned at those hours with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Sept. 17) -- sluggish start for Fox's rebuilt comedy night
09/18/13 09:59 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Mixing two freshman comedies with a pair of returning ones, Fox mostly got less than it banked on Tuesday night.
The network’s biggest surprise may have been the performance of scathingly reviewed newcomer Dads, which opened at 7 p.m. with 165,221 D-FW viewers.
The Seth MacFarlane-produced sitcom still lost its time slot to the first half of CBS’ NCIS repeat (261,600 viewers). But Dads won the half-hour with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds and had a bigger audience in both measurements than anything that followed on Fox.
The network’s Andy Samberg-fueled Brooklyn Nine Nine, much more favorably received by TV critics, then fell to 144,568 total viewers while also placing second behind NCIS with 18-to-49-year-olds.
Fox’s new season premieres of New Girl (110,147 total viewers) and The Mindy Project (103,263) continued the downward trend opposite the first hour of NBC’s America’s Got Talent (275,368) and CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles rerun (206,526).
New Girl also ran third among 18-to-49-year-olds before Mindy Project salvaged a distant second place finish behind Talent. The 9 p.m. hour also was dominated by Talent.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers ended their seven-game losing skid with a 7-1 win at Tampa Bay. The game drew 130,800 viewers, which still constitutes a ratings slump. When rolling along in first place, the Rangers routinely drew between 200,000 and 300,000 viewers per game.
In Tuesday’s local news derby results, NBC5 basked in the Talent afterglow by racking up 10 p.m. wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. WFAA8 almost pulled off a 10 p.m. total viewers win, though, trampolining from the 41,305 viewers it inherited from ABC’s closing 15 minutes of Iron Man II to 137,684. But the Peacock prevailed with 144,568 viewers.
Fox4 remained solid at 6 a.m. with twin wins while the 6 p.m. golds narrowly went to NBC5 in total viewers and WFAA8 in the 25-to-54 demographic. CBS11 broke through with the most viewers at 5 p.m., but Fox4 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Mixing two freshman comedies with a pair of returning ones, Fox mostly got less than it banked on Tuesday night.
The network’s biggest surprise may have been the performance of scathingly reviewed newcomer Dads, which opened at 7 p.m. with 165,221 D-FW viewers.
The Seth MacFarlane-produced sitcom still lost its time slot to the first half of CBS’ NCIS repeat (261,600 viewers). But Dads won the half-hour with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds and had a bigger audience in both measurements than anything that followed on Fox.
The network’s Andy Samberg-fueled Brooklyn Nine Nine, much more favorably received by TV critics, then fell to 144,568 total viewers while also placing second behind NCIS with 18-to-49-year-olds.
Fox’s new season premieres of New Girl (110,147 total viewers) and The Mindy Project (103,263) continued the downward trend opposite the first hour of NBC’s America’s Got Talent (275,368) and CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles rerun (206,526).
New Girl also ran third among 18-to-49-year-olds before Mindy Project salvaged a distant second place finish behind Talent. The 9 p.m. hour also was dominated by Talent.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers ended their seven-game losing skid with a 7-1 win at Tampa Bay. The game drew 130,800 viewers, which still constitutes a ratings slump. When rolling along in first place, the Rangers routinely drew between 200,000 and 300,000 viewers per game.
In Tuesday’s local news derby results, NBC5 basked in the Talent afterglow by racking up 10 p.m. wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. WFAA8 almost pulled off a 10 p.m. total viewers win, though, trampolining from the 41,305 viewers it inherited from ABC’s closing 15 minutes of Iron Man II to 137,684. But the Peacock prevailed with 144,568 viewers.
Fox4 remained solid at 6 a.m. with twin wins while the 6 p.m. golds narrowly went to NBC5 in total viewers and WFAA8 in the 25-to-54 demographic. CBS11 broke through with the most viewers at 5 p.m., but Fox4 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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End of an era (again): Rowlett leaving The Texas Daily after one-year stint (updated with Dungan's decision to likewise leave)
09/17/13 12:15 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Tracy Rowlett, the most prominent “pundit” on KTXD-TV’s Dallas-based The Texas Daily, has decided to leave the baby boomer-aimed news/information program after a one-year stay that began with its inception.
Rowlett told unclebarky.com Tuesday that his “final appearance” will be on the Tuesday, Sept. 17th edition. The two sides parted over financial issues, he said. The former WFAA8 and CBS11 anchor wanted more money to continue, particularly in light of London Broadcasting’s decision to syndicate The Texas Daily on its six other owned-and-operated stations in Waco, Tyler, Abilene, San Angelo, Beaumont and Corpus Christi.
But London contended it couldn’t afford to give him a raise because of problematic ratings, Rowlett said. “My letter of agreement expired today (Sept. 17th), so I wished them well and we parted amiably.”
London executive vice president and chief operating officer Phil Hurley said he had no comment on Rowlett’s decision other than “a thanks to Tracy and he can come back and join us anytime.”
Launched on Oct. 1st of last year in a weekday 8 a.m. slot, Texas Daily later was switched to its current 6 p.m. time period, with repeats at 9:30 p.m. In Monday’s ratings, via Nielsen Media Research, the 6 p.m. telecast had 5,507 viewers while the encore registered “hashmarks” (no measurable audience).
Rowlett generally appeared on the Monday and Tuesday hours with former WFAA8 weathercaster and close friend Troy Dungan.
“I have enjoyed working with Troy -- but will, once again, also enjoy retirement,” Rowlett said.
Dungan initially said he hadn’t yet decided whether to join Rowlett in re-retirement. “My agent is still in negotiations with KTXD,” he said Tuesday.
But by Thursday evening, Dungan likewise had decided to call it a day.
“Just as I suspected, I was not able to come to a financial agreement with KTXD,” he said via email. “I was willing to ‘soldier on’ without my buddy, Tracy, at least for another six months. It wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun, but if possible I wanted to help them develop the show as they syndicate it. They wanted both Tracy and me to stay on, but they offered us no financial incentive. So today (Tuesday, Sept. 17th) is our last Texas Daily.”
Rowlett anchored for a quarter-century at WFAA8 before joining CBS11 as that station’s featured anchor in 1999. He retired from CBS11 in March of 2007 and taught broadcast journalism classes at Southern Methodist University in recent years before the Texas Daily offer came along.
His departure from Texas Daily will be followed by at least one encore at KTXD. Rowlett is still scheduled to host the station’s Nov. 22nd special coverage of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. Another longtime friend and workmate, John Sparks, will produce the program, “so this will be special in more than title,” Rowlett said. “I think it will also be an exceptional broadcast. Fingers crossed.”
Besides Rowlett and Dungan, Texas Daily’s rotating roster of contributors includes Iola Johnson, Scott Murray, John Criswell, Debbie Denmon and several other mostly former WFAA8 news stars. Texas Daily’s Monday through Friday host is Jeff Brady, who also used to anchor at WFAA8.
Hurley said KTXD is “working on some additions” to Texas Daily, but “nothing to announce.” It is scheduled to go into syndication on Oct. 7th, he said, along with KTXD’s weekday 9 to 11 a.m. The Broadcast. As previously posted, that program will be shorn of its D magazine affiliation after the Friday, Sept. 20th show.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., Sept. 16) -- Hollow hangs in against Dancing restart
09/17/13 10:59 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
The new fall season doesn’t “officially” begin until Monday. But Fox is jump-starting three new series this week. So far not too bad.
Monday’s 8 p.m. premiere of Sleepy Hollow drew a nice-sized 254,715 D-FW viewers, with 108,440 in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 age range.
Still, that wasn’t good enough to beat the second hour of ABC’s competing Season 17 premiere of Dancing with the Stars, which had 385,515 total viewers and 137,144 within the 18-to-49 demographic.
Hollow vaulted upward from Fox’s rather skimpy totals for the 7 p.m. new season launch of Bones. It had 137,684 total viewers in trailing both the first hour of Dancing (364,863 viewers) and CBS’ repeat of How I Met Your Mother (144,568 viewers). The second half of Bones and CBS’ 2 Broke Girls rerun tied for second place at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Four broadcast network universe. Bones slipped into the runner-up spot among 18-to-49-year-olds, edging both CBS comedy reprises.
ESPN’s Monday Night Football face-off between the Bengals and Steelers averaged 323,557 total viewers, with its 9 to 10 p.m. portion edging CBS’ season finale of Under the Dome by a score of 357,978 to 344,210. Football also outpointed Dome among 18-to-49-year-olds.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers remained comatose down the stretch with their seventh consecutive loss, this time on the road to Tampa Bay. The game averaged 103,263 total viewers.
In the late afternoon Nielsens, WFAA8 continued to struggle with its new 4 p.m. local newscast. Week 2 began with another overall fourth place finish in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. CBS11’s news won the hour in total viewers while tripling the audience for WFAA8. NBC5’s news had the edge with 25-to-54-year-olds, almost quadrupling WFAA8’s numbers.
In Monday’s four-way local news derby results, CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. and tied WFAA8 for the top spot among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added a 5 p.m. win in the 25-to-54 measurement. WFAA8 countered by running the table at 6 p.m. while CBS11 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m.
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The new fall season doesn’t “officially” begin until Monday. But Fox is jump-starting three new series this week. So far not too bad.
Monday’s 8 p.m. premiere of Sleepy Hollow drew a nice-sized 254,715 D-FW viewers, with 108,440 in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 age range.
Still, that wasn’t good enough to beat the second hour of ABC’s competing Season 17 premiere of Dancing with the Stars, which had 385,515 total viewers and 137,144 within the 18-to-49 demographic.
Hollow vaulted upward from Fox’s rather skimpy totals for the 7 p.m. new season launch of Bones. It had 137,684 total viewers in trailing both the first hour of Dancing (364,863 viewers) and CBS’ repeat of How I Met Your Mother (144,568 viewers). The second half of Bones and CBS’ 2 Broke Girls rerun tied for second place at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Four broadcast network universe. Bones slipped into the runner-up spot among 18-to-49-year-olds, edging both CBS comedy reprises.
ESPN’s Monday Night Football face-off between the Bengals and Steelers averaged 323,557 total viewers, with its 9 to 10 p.m. portion edging CBS’ season finale of Under the Dome by a score of 357,978 to 344,210. Football also outpointed Dome among 18-to-49-year-olds.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers remained comatose down the stretch with their seventh consecutive loss, this time on the road to Tampa Bay. The game averaged 103,263 total viewers.
In the late afternoon Nielsens, WFAA8 continued to struggle with its new 4 p.m. local newscast. Week 2 began with another overall fourth place finish in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. CBS11’s news won the hour in total viewers while tripling the audience for WFAA8. NBC5’s news had the edge with 25-to-54-year-olds, almost quadrupling WFAA8’s numbers.
In Monday’s four-way local news derby results, CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. and tied WFAA8 for the top spot among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added a 5 p.m. win in the 25-to-54 measurement. WFAA8 countered by running the table at 6 p.m. while CBS11 had the most total viewers at 5 p.m.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Sept. 13-15) -- Cowboys inch past 1 mil mark with Game 2 cough-up
09/16/13 10:29 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Again blowing a game they easily could have won, the Dallas Cowboys both reverted to 1-1 while also enduring a sizable ratings drop-off from last season’s Game 2.
The 17-16 loss at Kansas City on Fox, which ran from 12:03 to 3:11 p.m., averaged 1,011,977 D-FW viewers. That compares to the 1,239,660 for 2012’s Game 2, a 27-7 pasting at Seattle. The Cowboys also lost more than a half million viewers from the new season’s opening crowd of 1,542,061. But that was on NBC’s Sunday Night Football main stage, with the New York Giants typically a much bigger drawing card than the Chiefs.
Sunday’s Cowboys-Chiefs game included 497,547 viewers in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic. And it squashed CBS’ competing Texans-Titans game, which averaged 68,842 total viewers and 31,894 in the 18-to-49 age range.
CBS’ following “Manning Bowl 3,” pitting Peyton and Eli, then revved up to 722,841 total viewers. D-FW ratings are not precise for NBC’s Sunday night Seahawks-49ers game, which was interrupted by a lengthy lightening delay and stretched deep into the night.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the cratering Texas Rangers’ latest loss to Oakland was left in the dust with 61,958 viewers Sunday afternoon.
In Sunday’s prime-time, non-sports numbers, a riveting episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad (just two more to go now) averaged 254,715 viewers in the 8 p.m. hour. As usual, an extraordinary percentage of them -- 188,175 -- were in the 18-to-49 motherlode. In comparison, ABC’s Sunday night telecast of the Miss America pageant averaged 79,735 viewers in the 18-to-49 range and 63,788 in direct 8 to 9 p.m. competition with Breaking Bad.
Saturday’s big-ticket TV attraction -- the Alabama-Texas A & M showdown on CBS -- averaged 640,231 total viewers. Slightly more than half -- 334,887 -- were 18-to-49-year-olds.
In Friday’s Nielsens, WFAA8’s new 4 p.m. local newscast met some viewer resistance as it ended its first week. Its 41,305 total viewers ran well behind competing local news hours on CBS11 and NBC5 while also trailing Fox4’s syndicated Judge Judy and CW33’s Maury Povich. WFAA8 also badly trailed among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Here are Friday’s four-way local news derby results:
CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m., but WFAA8 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added 5 and 6 p.m. golds in the 25-to-54 measurement. WFAA8 had the most total viewers at both 5 and 6 p.m., overcoming a skimpy lead-in from its 4 p.m. edition.
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Again blowing a game they easily could have won, the Dallas Cowboys both reverted to 1-1 while also enduring a sizable ratings drop-off from last season’s Game 2.
The 17-16 loss at Kansas City on Fox, which ran from 12:03 to 3:11 p.m., averaged 1,011,977 D-FW viewers. That compares to the 1,239,660 for 2012’s Game 2, a 27-7 pasting at Seattle. The Cowboys also lost more than a half million viewers from the new season’s opening crowd of 1,542,061. But that was on NBC’s Sunday Night Football main stage, with the New York Giants typically a much bigger drawing card than the Chiefs.
Sunday’s Cowboys-Chiefs game included 497,547 viewers in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic. And it squashed CBS’ competing Texans-Titans game, which averaged 68,842 total viewers and 31,894 in the 18-to-49 age range.
CBS’ following “Manning Bowl 3,” pitting Peyton and Eli, then revved up to 722,841 total viewers. D-FW ratings are not precise for NBC’s Sunday night Seahawks-49ers game, which was interrupted by a lengthy lightening delay and stretched deep into the night.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the cratering Texas Rangers’ latest loss to Oakland was left in the dust with 61,958 viewers Sunday afternoon.
In Sunday’s prime-time, non-sports numbers, a riveting episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad (just two more to go now) averaged 254,715 viewers in the 8 p.m. hour. As usual, an extraordinary percentage of them -- 188,175 -- were in the 18-to-49 motherlode. In comparison, ABC’s Sunday night telecast of the Miss America pageant averaged 79,735 viewers in the 18-to-49 range and 63,788 in direct 8 to 9 p.m. competition with Breaking Bad.
Saturday’s big-ticket TV attraction -- the Alabama-Texas A & M showdown on CBS -- averaged 640,231 total viewers. Slightly more than half -- 334,887 -- were 18-to-49-year-olds.
In Friday’s Nielsens, WFAA8’s new 4 p.m. local newscast met some viewer resistance as it ended its first week. Its 41,305 total viewers ran well behind competing local news hours on CBS11 and NBC5 while also trailing Fox4’s syndicated Judge Judy and CW33’s Maury Povich. WFAA8 also badly trailed among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Here are Friday’s four-way local news derby results:
CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m., but WFAA8 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added 5 and 6 p.m. golds in the 25-to-54 measurement. WFAA8 had the most total viewers at both 5 and 6 p.m., overcoming a skimpy lead-in from its 4 p.m. edition.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs., Sept. 12) -- Tech-TCU on top
09/13/13 11:42 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Texas Tech’s home win over TCU made ESPN Thursday night’s overall ratings winner while CBS’ BB brigade -- Big Bang and Big Brother -- paced the Big Four broadcast networks.
Tech-TCU averaged 296,021 D-FW viewers in winning every hour of prime-time. The game also ranked No. 1 among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds.
Football likewise scored on the NFL Network, where its opening Thursday night matchup of the Patriots and Jets drew 199,642 total viewers.
In the broadcast network firmament, CBS ran first from 7 to 9 p.m. with a Big Bang Theory repeat (234,063 viewers), a fall season preview special (172,105) and Big Brother (220,294).
Fox’s second edition of The X Factor ran second in those hours and also trailed the front-running BBs among 18-to-49-year-olds while managing to edge CBS’ fall preview special to rank No. 1 from 7:30 to 8 p.m. The Simon Cowell aura and era may well be on fumes, with rival networks yet to fire their heavy artillery when the new fall season begins in earnest on Monday, Sept. 23rd.
Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast won that hour in both ratings measurements against CBS’ Elementary rerun, NBC’s Hollywood Game Night and ABC’s Rookie Blue.
In Thursday’s local news derby results WFAA8 won at 10 p.m. 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 added 5 and 6 p.m. golds in the 25-to-54 demographic. The 5 and 6 p.m. total viewers victors respectively were NBC5 and WFAA8.
D-FW TV PROGRAMMING NOTE
The locally produced Live Love Laugh Today, hosted by Linda Cooper and Susie McAuley, will premiere Sunday, Sept. 15th at 11 a.m. on WFAA8.
Its focus is on “informative and entertaining topics of interest to women,” including segments on travel, health and cooking.
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Texas Tech’s home win over TCU made ESPN Thursday night’s overall ratings winner while CBS’ BB brigade -- Big Bang and Big Brother -- paced the Big Four broadcast networks.
Tech-TCU averaged 296,021 D-FW viewers in winning every hour of prime-time. The game also ranked No. 1 among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds.
Football likewise scored on the NFL Network, where its opening Thursday night matchup of the Patriots and Jets drew 199,642 total viewers.
In the broadcast network firmament, CBS ran first from 7 to 9 p.m. with a Big Bang Theory repeat (234,063 viewers), a fall season preview special (172,105) and Big Brother (220,294).
Fox’s second edition of The X Factor ran second in those hours and also trailed the front-running BBs among 18-to-49-year-olds while managing to edge CBS’ fall preview special to rank No. 1 from 7:30 to 8 p.m. The Simon Cowell aura and era may well be on fumes, with rival networks yet to fire their heavy artillery when the new fall season begins in earnest on Monday, Sept. 23rd.
Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast won that hour in both ratings measurements against CBS’ Elementary rerun, NBC’s Hollywood Game Night and ABC’s Rookie Blue.
In Thursday’s local news derby results WFAA8 won at 10 p.m. 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 added 5 and 6 p.m. golds in the 25-to-54 demographic. The 5 and 6 p.m. total viewers victors respectively were NBC5 and WFAA8.
D-FW TV PROGRAMMING NOTE
The locally produced Live Love Laugh Today, hosted by Linda Cooper and Susie McAuley, will premiere Sunday, Sept. 15th at 11 a.m. on WFAA8.
Its focus is on “informative and entertaining topics of interest to women,” including segments on travel, health and cooking.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Sept. 11) -- Big Brother bests X Factor in battle royal
09/12/13 10:54 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Hoping to get a jump on the competition, Fox’s early Season 3 premiere of The X Factor instead ran into a Big Brother buzz saw Wednesday night.
It was a pretty close competition in the 7 p.m. hour, but CBS’ BB whipped X Factor in both total D-FW viewers (247,831 to 227,179) and among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds (130,765 to 111,629).
Paying a stiffer price was NBC’s third edition of its live, multi-night Million Second Quiz. It had less than half the total viewers -- 96,379 -- of BB or X Factor and also was nipped by ABC’s competing Shark Tank repeat (103,263 viewers).
Million Second Quiz managed a distant third-place finish among 18-to-49-year-olds, drawing 35,083 to Shark Tank’s 31,894.
NBC’s America’s Got Talent rallied to win the 8 p.m. hour in total viewers but ran second to Fox’s Masterchef season finale in the 18-to-49 demographic. Fox4’s local newscast then finished first at 9 p.m. in both ratings measurements.
Moving to the late night arena, the third 10 p.m. edition of The Arsenio Hall Show (airing on CW33 in D-FW) showed some slippage while still more than doubling its lead-in audience from the station’s Nightcap news.
In total viewers, Arsenio’s second half-hour ran behind the first half-hours of CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno but beat ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Arsenio still bested all three rival late night talkers among 18-to-49-year-olds but lost to Fox4’s 10:30 p.m. edition of the syndicated TMZ.
At 4 p.m., the third edition of WFAA8’s new local newscast beat everything except Fox4’s 4:30 p.m. Judge Judy in the total viewer Nielsens. In the 25-to-54 demographic (main advertiser target audience for news programming), WFAA8 ran second overall to CBS11’s local newscast and also trailed Judge Judy. But it nipped NBC5’s 4 p.m. local newscast, which generally has fared better at this hour.
The Texas Rangers’ afternoon loss to Pittsburgh, completing a three-game sweep by the Pirates, drew what likely was the team’s smallest crowd of the season on Fox Sports Southwest. Just 41,305 total viewers were on hand.
Here are Wednesday’s four-way local news derby results:
WFAA8 ran the table at 10 p.m. with wins in both total viewers and in the 25-to-54 measurement. Fox4 did likewise at 6 a.m. while CBS11 swept the 6 p.m. competitions.
The 5 p.m. golds went to WFAA8 in total viewers and Fox4 among 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Hoping to get a jump on the competition, Fox’s early Season 3 premiere of The X Factor instead ran into a Big Brother buzz saw Wednesday night.
It was a pretty close competition in the 7 p.m. hour, but CBS’ BB whipped X Factor in both total D-FW viewers (247,831 to 227,179) and among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds (130,765 to 111,629).
Paying a stiffer price was NBC’s third edition of its live, multi-night Million Second Quiz. It had less than half the total viewers -- 96,379 -- of BB or X Factor and also was nipped by ABC’s competing Shark Tank repeat (103,263 viewers).
Million Second Quiz managed a distant third-place finish among 18-to-49-year-olds, drawing 35,083 to Shark Tank’s 31,894.
NBC’s America’s Got Talent rallied to win the 8 p.m. hour in total viewers but ran second to Fox’s Masterchef season finale in the 18-to-49 demographic. Fox4’s local newscast then finished first at 9 p.m. in both ratings measurements.
Moving to the late night arena, the third 10 p.m. edition of The Arsenio Hall Show (airing on CW33 in D-FW) showed some slippage while still more than doubling its lead-in audience from the station’s Nightcap news.
In total viewers, Arsenio’s second half-hour ran behind the first half-hours of CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno but beat ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Arsenio still bested all three rival late night talkers among 18-to-49-year-olds but lost to Fox4’s 10:30 p.m. edition of the syndicated TMZ.
At 4 p.m., the third edition of WFAA8’s new local newscast beat everything except Fox4’s 4:30 p.m. Judge Judy in the total viewer Nielsens. In the 25-to-54 demographic (main advertiser target audience for news programming), WFAA8 ran second overall to CBS11’s local newscast and also trailed Judge Judy. But it nipped NBC5’s 4 p.m. local newscast, which generally has fared better at this hour.
The Texas Rangers’ afternoon loss to Pittsburgh, completing a three-game sweep by the Pirates, drew what likely was the team’s smallest crowd of the season on Fox Sports Southwest. Just 41,305 total viewers were on hand.
Here are Wednesday’s four-way local news derby results:
WFAA8 ran the table at 10 p.m. with wins in both total viewers and in the 25-to-54 measurement. Fox4 did likewise at 6 a.m. while CBS11 swept the 6 p.m. competitions.
The 5 p.m. golds went to WFAA8 in total viewers and Fox4 among 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Sept. 10) -- Arsenio hangs in but a tumble for WFAA8's new 4 p.m. newscast
09/11/13 12:34 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
It’s very early, and these things will shake out in time. That said, the Day 2 ratings for The Arsenio Hall Show are cause for smiles at CW33 while perhaps a very slight frown is in order at WFAA8 after its new 4 p.m. newscast fell pretty hard.
Arsenio, airing at 10 p.m., drew 61,958 D-FW viewers for Tuesday’s second outing, with 44,652 of them in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 age range. That equalled the total viewers Nielsen number for Monday’s Day 1 while the 18-to-49 share jumped up from 35,083.
WFAA8’s second 4 p.m. local newscast, anchored by Jason Wheeler and Colleen Coyle, ran fourth in its time slot with 48,189 total viewers. That’s a drop from the opening day haul of 61,958 viewers. Among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming), News 8 at 4 dipped from 29,811 viewers to 5,962 in running a distant fourth behind competing programming on Fox4, NBC5 and CBS11.
NBC5’s well-established 4 p.m. newscast also registered big day-to-day drops in finishing an overall very close second in both ratings measurements to Fox4’s double-helping of Judge Judy. JJ had been an also-ran on Monday opposite the newscasts on NBC5 and WFAA8, and U.S. Open tennis coverage on CBS11. On Tuesday, CBS11’s regular 4 p.m. local news outdrew WFAA8’s while placing third in both key ratings measurements.
In prime-time, the second episode of NBC’s live, multi-night Million Second Quiz had 137,684 total viewers to finish second in the 7 p.m. hour behind CBS’ NCIS repeat (199,642 viewers). But the first hour of Fox’s SoYou Think You Can Dance ran first with 18-to-49-year-olds while Million Second Quiz dropped to third.
President Obama’s 8 p.m. address on Syria, carried by all of the Big Four broadcast networks, then skewed the rest of the night’s lineups. Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers’ 5-4 home loss to Pittsburgh had a very modest-sized 110,147 total viewers. The Rangers rallied in the ninth to almost pull the game out, but the team’s late-season slump definitely isn’t helping FSS’s ratings picture.
Also in the cable universe, FX’s 9 p.m. Season 6 of premiere of Sons of Anarchy drew 123,916 total viewers, with an impressive 86,114 of them within the 18-to-49 motherlode.
In Tuesday’s four-way local news derby results, the 10 p.m. editions were a muddle due to various over-runs caused by the President’s speech. So we’ll leave them out.
At 6 a.m., Fox4 recorded a pair of dominating wins. WFAA8 ran the table at 6 p.m. while NBC5 and CBS11 tied for the most total viewers at 5 p.m. CBS11 had a rare first-place finish at 5 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic.
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It’s very early, and these things will shake out in time. That said, the Day 2 ratings for The Arsenio Hall Show are cause for smiles at CW33 while perhaps a very slight frown is in order at WFAA8 after its new 4 p.m. newscast fell pretty hard.
Arsenio, airing at 10 p.m., drew 61,958 D-FW viewers for Tuesday’s second outing, with 44,652 of them in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 age range. That equalled the total viewers Nielsen number for Monday’s Day 1 while the 18-to-49 share jumped up from 35,083.
WFAA8’s second 4 p.m. local newscast, anchored by Jason Wheeler and Colleen Coyle, ran fourth in its time slot with 48,189 total viewers. That’s a drop from the opening day haul of 61,958 viewers. Among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming), News 8 at 4 dipped from 29,811 viewers to 5,962 in running a distant fourth behind competing programming on Fox4, NBC5 and CBS11.
NBC5’s well-established 4 p.m. newscast also registered big day-to-day drops in finishing an overall very close second in both ratings measurements to Fox4’s double-helping of Judge Judy. JJ had been an also-ran on Monday opposite the newscasts on NBC5 and WFAA8, and U.S. Open tennis coverage on CBS11. On Tuesday, CBS11’s regular 4 p.m. local news outdrew WFAA8’s while placing third in both key ratings measurements.
In prime-time, the second episode of NBC’s live, multi-night Million Second Quiz had 137,684 total viewers to finish second in the 7 p.m. hour behind CBS’ NCIS repeat (199,642 viewers). But the first hour of Fox’s SoYou Think You Can Dance ran first with 18-to-49-year-olds while Million Second Quiz dropped to third.
President Obama’s 8 p.m. address on Syria, carried by all of the Big Four broadcast networks, then skewed the rest of the night’s lineups. Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers’ 5-4 home loss to Pittsburgh had a very modest-sized 110,147 total viewers. The Rangers rallied in the ninth to almost pull the game out, but the team’s late-season slump definitely isn’t helping FSS’s ratings picture.
Also in the cable universe, FX’s 9 p.m. Season 6 of premiere of Sons of Anarchy drew 123,916 total viewers, with an impressive 86,114 of them within the 18-to-49 motherlode.
In Tuesday’s four-way local news derby results, the 10 p.m. editions were a muddle due to various over-runs caused by the President’s speech. So we’ll leave them out.
At 6 a.m., Fox4 recorded a pair of dominating wins. WFAA8 ran the table at 6 p.m. while NBC5 and CBS11 tied for the most total viewers at 5 p.m. CBS11 had a rare first-place finish at 5 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., Sept. 9) -- Monday Night Football dominates on big day of premieres
09/10/13 10:31 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
On an eventful day of premieres, old standby Monday Night Football scored highest with a doubleheader showcase.
The return of MNF to ESPN kicked off with an Eagles-Redskins matchup that averaged 399,284 D-FW viewers. Philadelphia’s new, frenetic offense dominated until some late-breaking Washington touchdowns made the score a misleadingly respectable 33-27 in favor of the Eagles.
<>MNF’s following Houston-San Diego game, which didn’t start until shortly before 9:30 p.m., then averaged 316,673 viewers in dominating the late night ratings. In this one, the Texans overcame a 28-7 second half deficit to beat the Chargers 31-28.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the still punchless Texas Rangers returned home to be shut out 1-0 by the resurgent Pittsburgh Pirates. A relatively small crowd of 144,578 viewers stayed the course during one of the quicker-played games of the season.
The non-sports world also had ample activity. NBC’s premiere of its multi-night Million Second Quiz -- hosted by Ryan Seacrest -- won the 7 p.m. slot among the Big Four Broadcast networks with 199,642 viewers. But its performance among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds was appreciably less promising. A repeat of ABC’s “Shark Week”-themed Shark Tank won in that measurement with 57,409 viewers while Million Second Quiz had 44,652.
At 10 p.m., the second coming of The Arsenio Hall Show, with CW33 the carrier in D-FW, more than tripled the audience of the station’s preceding Nightcap comedy news programming. But Arsenio still ran fifth in the broadcast network universe with 61,958 total viewers.
Among 18-to-49-year-olds, though, the second half of Arsenio beat the first half-hours of both ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and NBC’s Tonight Show while a U.S. Open tennis overrun knocked CBS’ prime-time programming for a loop. The network’s Under the Dome didn’t start until 9:30 p.m., pushing CBS11’s 10 p.m. newscast roughly a half-hour deeper into the night. For good measure, Arsenio also nipped CBS11’s news and beat Fox4 and NBC5 for the entire 10 to 11 p.m. hour in the key 18-to-49 demographic.
WFAA8 also launched its first-ever 4 p.m. local newscast Monday. The opening day results were mixed.
NBC5’s established 4 p.m. newscast handily won the hour with 117,031 total viewers to WFAA8’s 61,958. Fox4’s 4:30 p.m. episode of Judge Judy also had more viewers than WFAA8’s new anchor duo of Jason Wheeler and Colleen Coyle. CBS11’s 4 p.m. local newscast was rubbed out by U.S. Open tennis coverage, which had 48,189 viewers for the 4 to 5 p.m. portion.
Among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming, WFAA8’s 4 p.m. opener trailed only NBC5. The results were the same among 18-to-49-year-olds, with the first half-hour of Judge Judy registering “hashmarks” (no measurable audience) according to Nielsen Media Research.
OK, let’s get to Monday’s four-way local news derby results (although network overruns dealt out the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. editions on CBS11).
WFAA8 swept the 10 p.m. competitions with wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds. Both 6 p.m. golds likewise went to WFAA8, which notched an additional win by nipping Fox4 in total viewers at 6 a.m.
Fox4 had a paper-thin win at 6 a.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic while NBC5 rode the strength of its 4 p.m. newscast to a 5 p.m. sweep.
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On an eventful day of premieres, old standby Monday Night Football scored highest with a doubleheader showcase.
The return of MNF to ESPN kicked off with an Eagles-Redskins matchup that averaged 399,284 D-FW viewers. Philadelphia’s new, frenetic offense dominated until some late-breaking Washington touchdowns made the score a misleadingly respectable 33-27 in favor of the Eagles.
<>MNF’s following Houston-San Diego game, which didn’t start until shortly before 9:30 p.m., then averaged 316,673 viewers in dominating the late night ratings. In this one, the Texans overcame a 28-7 second half deficit to beat the Chargers 31-28.
On Fox Sports Southwest, the still punchless Texas Rangers returned home to be shut out 1-0 by the resurgent Pittsburgh Pirates. A relatively small crowd of 144,578 viewers stayed the course during one of the quicker-played games of the season.
The non-sports world also had ample activity. NBC’s premiere of its multi-night Million Second Quiz -- hosted by Ryan Seacrest -- won the 7 p.m. slot among the Big Four Broadcast networks with 199,642 viewers. But its performance among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds was appreciably less promising. A repeat of ABC’s “Shark Week”-themed Shark Tank won in that measurement with 57,409 viewers while Million Second Quiz had 44,652.
At 10 p.m., the second coming of The Arsenio Hall Show, with CW33 the carrier in D-FW, more than tripled the audience of the station’s preceding Nightcap comedy news programming. But Arsenio still ran fifth in the broadcast network universe with 61,958 total viewers.
Among 18-to-49-year-olds, though, the second half of Arsenio beat the first half-hours of both ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and NBC’s Tonight Show while a U.S. Open tennis overrun knocked CBS’ prime-time programming for a loop. The network’s Under the Dome didn’t start until 9:30 p.m., pushing CBS11’s 10 p.m. newscast roughly a half-hour deeper into the night. For good measure, Arsenio also nipped CBS11’s news and beat Fox4 and NBC5 for the entire 10 to 11 p.m. hour in the key 18-to-49 demographic.
WFAA8 also launched its first-ever 4 p.m. local newscast Monday. The opening day results were mixed.
NBC5’s established 4 p.m. newscast handily won the hour with 117,031 total viewers to WFAA8’s 61,958. Fox4’s 4:30 p.m. episode of Judge Judy also had more viewers than WFAA8’s new anchor duo of Jason Wheeler and Colleen Coyle. CBS11’s 4 p.m. local newscast was rubbed out by U.S. Open tennis coverage, which had 48,189 viewers for the 4 to 5 p.m. portion.
Among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming, WFAA8’s 4 p.m. opener trailed only NBC5. The results were the same among 18-to-49-year-olds, with the first half-hour of Judge Judy registering “hashmarks” (no measurable audience) according to Nielsen Media Research.
OK, let’s get to Monday’s four-way local news derby results (although network overruns dealt out the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. editions on CBS11).
WFAA8 swept the 10 p.m. competitions with wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds. Both 6 p.m. golds likewise went to WFAA8, which notched an additional win by nipping Fox4 in total viewers at 6 a.m.
Fox4 had a paper-thin win at 6 a.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic while NBC5 rode the strength of its 4 p.m. newscast to a 5 p.m. sweep.
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Long time in coming: WFAA8 begins calling its own shots with new 4 p.m. local newscast
09/09/13 05:36 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
After two years of missteps with syndicated programming, WFAA8 made its own 4 p.m. bed for the first time in station history Monday with the debut of a one-hour late afternoon newscast.
Jason Wheeler and Colleen Coyle are the younger, chattier anchor duo for News 8 At 4, which will be battling established local news hours on rivals NBC5 and CBS11 while Fox4 for now sticks with a double dose of Judge Judy.
“I’ve been actually laughing back there,” 5 p.m. co-anchor Shelly Slater told the pair near the end of the first telecast. “Very entertaining, you two. Highly entertaining.” She then quickly added, “In a good way.”
Well, not always. But they survived the first hour in reasonably good shape while promising day-to-day remodelings based on viewer input via social media. The moldy old “news you can use” tagline of years past has given way to whatever viewers want -- within reason more or less.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Wheeler promised at the outset while Coyle (still better known at the moment for her weathercasts) stood happily beside him. “We’re going to inform you, hopefully entertain you a little bit as well. And as time goes (by), no show will be like the other. We’re gonna get your input on Twitter and Facebook.”
“Oh yes we are,” Coyle chimed in before they gave themselves a “High Four.”
The small talk then turned to the big double-hit on Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo during Sunday night’s season-opening win against the New York Giants.
“Ooh, look at the tackle,” said Wheeler. But Romo survived what Wheeler later termed “the sandwich treatment” during repeated replays, one in slo-mo. X-rays were negative.
Wheeler twice showed signs of being maybe a little goofier than the 4 p.m. format calls for. After Coyle noted she’s a “Georgia Peach,” he told her, “And you kind of have a little crush going with him” (meaning the married Romo).
“Maybe. Maybe (Atlanta Falcons quarterback) Matt Ryan may be up there. So you never know. Yeah, Tony Romo. Some people may say he’s as hot as our forecast outside.”
“Ooh” they said in unison before Coyle briskly strode out to Victory Park Plaza for her first of four weather updates. She also introduced a new “Weather Where You Are” feature in which viewers are strongly encouraged to send in their pictures for use on the newscast. Three were displayed before newscast’s end.
Wheeler handled most of the day’s heavier news, including a “Fair Park Rapist” update and reported sexual assaults on both the SMU and UT-Arlington campuses. Two “Syria Latest” updates also made the cut, in addition to briefs on the arrest of George Zimmerman after an alleged domestic dispute with his wife, who’s divorcing him.
A promised cutaway to a news conference by Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett failed to materialize after its announced start time kept getting pushed back. And then Wheeler stepped in it a bit after some anchor jabber on Matthew McConaughey’s new movie, Dallas Buyers Club, for which he lost 40 pounds.
“He was tan with his shirt off, big muscles and everything,” Coyle said of the last McConaughey movie she saw (presumably Magic Mike). “Not anymore. OK, gotta talk about the heat again.”
“Speaking of taking your shirt off,” Wheeler riposted. Pause, one-two. “I mean, not you.”
Taken aback, Coyle gamely guffawed before marshaling a segue: “We’re gonna go outside on that note, everyone. Yeah, News 8 At 4. There’s no censor here.” She then did the weather in relative peace. It’s been another hot one, viewers again were apprised.
New shows seldom get off the ground without a few fluid leaks. Wheeler and Coyle likely will be just fine in time as they take on the very important task of building a better lead-in audience for WFAA8’s 5 p.m. newscasts while the station collects all the ad revenue for the first time in a very long time. WFAA8 aired The Oprah Winfrey Show for a quarter-century in the 4 p.m. slot, in large part to the tune of dominant ratings. But her fall 2011 successor, Dr. Oz, didn’t do particularly well at 4 p.m. Nor did last fall’s Katie, which now airs an hour earlier at 3 p.m.
One more thing. The opening News 8 at 4 tended to be a little top-heavy with repetition in a manner befitting an early morning newscast. In that context, Coyle had an out-of-body experience in introducing Wheeler’s live interview with three medical experts after a brief story on “Breast Cancer Screening Concerns.” They’re “here this morning” with him in the green room, she told viewers.
Facebook and Twitter input is on the way, though. And maybe viewers will lobby for a more varied menu. Or perhaps they’ll be just as happy with more “taking your shirt off” TV moments of the sort supplied by Wheeler. Whatever happens, the direction this newscast takes will be anything but inconsequential. WFAA8’s overall late afternoon/early evening profit picture could be significantly enhanced if increasing numbers of viewers warm to Wheeler, Coyle and their new baby.
It wasn’t an altogether smooth birth Monday. But WFAA8 at long last is in charge of its own destiny -- which is pretty big news on its own.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Sept. 6-8) -- Cowboys rise up in latest season opener
09/09/13 10:54 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
The Dallas Cowboys’ 36-31 season-opening win over the New York Giants amassed a bigger NBC crowd than last year’s first game win on the G-men’s home field.
The Peacock’s first Sunday Night Football game of the year, which stretched to 10:43 p.m. in Jerry’s Palace, averaged 1,542,061 D-FW viewers and 803,729 in the advertiser-prized 18-to-49 motherlode. The 2012 Cowboys opener, which NBC telecast on a Wednesday night in deference to Thursday’s Democratic National Convention finale, drew 1,348,046 viewers with 793,373 in the 18-to-49 age range.
NBC’s 2011 prime-time Cowboys opener, a meltdown road loss to the Jets, still ranks highest among these New York states of mind with respective totals of 1,634,465 and 835,812 viewers.
Earlier Sunday, Fox’s San Francisco 49ers-Green Bay Packers game was the day’s second highest TV attraction with 667,767 total viewers. Fox’s preceding Saints-Falcons game placed No. 3 on the charts with 447,747 viewers, drubbing CBS’ competing Bears-Bengals game (192,758 viewers).
The Texas Rangers’ Sunday afternoon road win against the Angels, salvaging the final game of a 3-game series, dwelled in relative obscurity with 89,495 viewers on Fox Sports Southwest. Over on AMC Sunday night, the 8 p.m. shoot ‘em up episode of Breaking Bad pulled in 137,684 total viewers in direct competition with the Cowboys.
Saturday night’s Rangers-Angels game on FSS had 68,842 viewers while the team’s Friday night game on TXA21 managed the largest crowd with 165,221 viewers.
In Friday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 swept the 10 p.m. competitions with wins in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 twice edged WFAA8 for the top spots at 6 a.m. NBC5 ran the table at 5 p.m. and added a 6 p.m. win in total viewers. WFAA8 had the most 25-to-54-year-olds at 6 p.m.
LOCAL TV NOTE
The Monday, Sept. 9th live 7 p.m. premiere of NBC’s The Million Second Quiz will include Dallasite Leigh Guerra-Paz as a “Line Jumper.” She’s a 32-year-old attorney and a University of Texas at Austin graduate. She qualified by getting a high score on the multi-million dollar quiz’s home app game. Ryan Seacrest hosts, with air dates on Sept. 9-14 and Sept. 16-18 before a Sept. 19 finale.
NBC is banking on Million Second Quiz to be a mushrooming ratings “event” that also will double as a promotional showcase for its new fall lineup.
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Fox4 reporter Emily Lopez leaving station (updated)
09/06/13 01:52 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Veteran Fox4 reporter Emily Lopez is leaving the Dallas-based station. Her last day is Sunday.
Yup, it’s true,” Lopez confirmed via email Friday. “My husband got a job out of state and I will be joining him. It’s hard to leave a place after seven years.”
Asked to elaborate on where she’s heading, Lopez said, “No, I cannot elaborate.”
The Brooklyn native previously worked at TV stations in San Antonio, Lubbock, Asheville, NC and Raleigh, NC, where she spent three years before joining Fox4 in May 2006.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs., Sept. 5) -- Peyton's TD o'rama lights up NBC's NFL kickoff
09/06/13 10:04 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
A 33-minute lightning delay didn’t stop Peyton Manning from striking Thursday night.
His record-tying 7 TD passes paced the Denver Broncos in their dismantling of the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens on NBC’s NFL Kickoff game.
Stretching until 11:51 p.m., the game averaged 578,273 D-FW viewers in easily squashing all competing programming. A dwindling audience from 11 p.m. until closing kept the game from going well past the 600,000 viewer mark. By the time taps were played -- in the 11:45 p.m. to midnight segment -- the Broncos-Ravens audience had dipped to 399,284 viewers. (Note: Nielsen Media Research measures audiences in 15-minute increments.)
More than half the football crowd hit the advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-old motherlode, with a final average of 334,887 viewers.
CBS’ 8 p.m. episode of Big Brother took the runner-up spot with 220,294 total viewers and 121,197 in the 18-to-49 demographic. Nothing else opposite football managed to crack the 100,000 viewers mark in either measurement.
Thursday’s local news derby results featured an unusually large number of ties.
WFAA8 and CBS11 shared first place in total viewers at 10 p.m. in a downsized three-way race. WFAA8 won outright among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. But the combined local newscast audience on Fox4, WFAA8 and CBS11 fell well short of that for the Broncos-Ravens game. In total viewers from 10 to 10:30 p.m., the NFL won by a score of 564,450 to 302,905.
At 6 a.m., Fox4 and WFAA8 shared first place in both ratings measurements. Fox4 topped both the 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts among 25-to-54-year-olds while WFAA8 won at 6 p.m. in total viewers. Fox4, NBC5 and WFAA8 tied for first at 5 p.m. in total viewers, with CBS11 just a smidge behind.
LOCAL TV PROGRAMMING NOTE
PBS’ new eight-part classical concert series, All-Star Orchestra, will include Dallas Symphony Orchestra associate concertmaster Emanuelle Boisvert. He’ll be the First Violinist.
The premiere episode is on Sunday, Sept. 8th, locally at 1 p.m. on KERA13.
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A 33-minute lightning delay didn’t stop Peyton Manning from striking Thursday night.
His record-tying 7 TD passes paced the Denver Broncos in their dismantling of the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens on NBC’s NFL Kickoff game.
Stretching until 11:51 p.m., the game averaged 578,273 D-FW viewers in easily squashing all competing programming. A dwindling audience from 11 p.m. until closing kept the game from going well past the 600,000 viewer mark. By the time taps were played -- in the 11:45 p.m. to midnight segment -- the Broncos-Ravens audience had dipped to 399,284 viewers. (Note: Nielsen Media Research measures audiences in 15-minute increments.)
More than half the football crowd hit the advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-old motherlode, with a final average of 334,887 viewers.
CBS’ 8 p.m. episode of Big Brother took the runner-up spot with 220,294 total viewers and 121,197 in the 18-to-49 demographic. Nothing else opposite football managed to crack the 100,000 viewers mark in either measurement.
Thursday’s local news derby results featured an unusually large number of ties.
WFAA8 and CBS11 shared first place in total viewers at 10 p.m. in a downsized three-way race. WFAA8 won outright among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. But the combined local newscast audience on Fox4, WFAA8 and CBS11 fell well short of that for the Broncos-Ravens game. In total viewers from 10 to 10:30 p.m., the NFL won by a score of 564,450 to 302,905.
At 6 a.m., Fox4 and WFAA8 shared first place in both ratings measurements. Fox4 topped both the 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts among 25-to-54-year-olds while WFAA8 won at 6 p.m. in total viewers. Fox4, NBC5 and WFAA8 tied for first at 5 p.m. in total viewers, with CBS11 just a smidge behind.
LOCAL TV PROGRAMMING NOTE
PBS’ new eight-part classical concert series, All-Star Orchestra, will include Dallas Symphony Orchestra associate concertmaster Emanuelle Boisvert. He’ll be the First Violinist.
The premiere episode is on Sunday, Sept. 8th, locally at 1 p.m. on KERA13.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., Sept. 4) -- Big Brother still the one
09/05/13 09:50 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
As summer evaporates into the new fall season, CBS remains hot, hot, hot with Big Brother.
Its weekly 7 p.m. Wednesday edition easily ranked as the day’s most-watched TV attraction in both total viewers (234,063) and advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds (127,576).
The 8 and 9 p.m. hours in both Nielsen measurements respectively were won by NBC’s America’s Got Talent and Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast. Talent, prime-time’s No. 2 performer with 18-to-49-year-olds, fell well short of BB with 70,167 viewers in this key demographic.
Fox Sports Southwest’s mid-afternoon/early afternoon Texas Rangers game, a 11-4 whipping at the hands of Oakland, averaged just 68,842 total viewers. By game’s merciful end, at 5:49 p.m., the audience had dropped to 34,421 viewers.
In Wednesday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 ran the table 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 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions while WFAA8 notched two more wins at 6 p.m. The 5 p.m. golds went to NBC5 in total viewers and Fox4 among 25-to-54-year-olds.
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As summer evaporates into the new fall season, CBS remains hot, hot, hot with Big Brother.
Its weekly 7 p.m. Wednesday edition easily ranked as the day’s most-watched TV attraction in both total viewers (234,063) and advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds (127,576).
The 8 and 9 p.m. hours in both Nielsen measurements respectively were won by NBC’s America’s Got Talent and Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast. Talent, prime-time’s No. 2 performer with 18-to-49-year-olds, fell well short of BB with 70,167 viewers in this key demographic.
Fox Sports Southwest’s mid-afternoon/early afternoon Texas Rangers game, a 11-4 whipping at the hands of Oakland, averaged just 68,842 total viewers. By game’s merciful end, at 5:49 p.m., the audience had dropped to 34,421 viewers.
In Wednesday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 ran the table 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 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions while WFAA8 notched two more wins at 6 p.m. The 5 p.m. golds went to NBC5 in total viewers and Fox4 among 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Sept. 3) -- Talent on top
09/04/13 01:41 PM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
NBC’s America’s Got Talent again ranked as Tuesday’s top TV draw, narrowly winning in total viewers but dominating the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic.
From 8 to 10 p.m. Talent drew 185,873 D-FW viewers to edge competition from CBS’ crime rerun combo of NCIS: Los Angeles (172,105) and Person of Interest (165,221). CBS’ NCIS repeat won the 7 p.m. hour with 178,989 viewers.
Talent won its two-hour bloc by a much wider margin among 18-to-49-year-olds while the 7 to 8 p.m. hour was split between The CW’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the second half-hour of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers late-starting win at Oakland, which put them back in first place by themselves, averaged 172,105 total viewers. But the game still ran third from 9 to 10 p.m. before peaking at 220,294 viewers between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m.
In Tuesday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 won at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. WFAA8 also swept the 5 p.m. competitions.
Fox4 notched another doubleheader win at 6 a.m. The 6 p.m. spoils were split between CBS11 in total viewers and Fox4 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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NBC’s America’s Got Talent again ranked as Tuesday’s top TV draw, narrowly winning in total viewers but dominating the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic.
From 8 to 10 p.m. Talent drew 185,873 D-FW viewers to edge competition from CBS’ crime rerun combo of NCIS: Los Angeles (172,105) and Person of Interest (165,221). CBS’ NCIS repeat won the 7 p.m. hour with 178,989 viewers.
Talent won its two-hour bloc by a much wider margin among 18-to-49-year-olds while the 7 to 8 p.m. hour was split between The CW’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the second half-hour of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.
Over on Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers late-starting win at Oakland, which put them back in first place by themselves, averaged 172,105 total viewers. But the game still ran third from 9 to 10 p.m. before peaking at 220,294 viewers between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m.
In Tuesday’s local news derby results, WFAA8 won at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. WFAA8 also swept the 5 p.m. competitions.
Fox4 notched another doubleheader win at 6 a.m. The 6 p.m. spoils were split between CBS11 in total viewers and Fox4 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Mon., Aug. 30-Sept. 2) -- Dome, Breaking Bad, college football, Rangers set pace
09/04/13 08:42 AM
By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
CBS’ Under the Dome got out from under a Time Warner Cable blackout for the first time in four weeks Monday night. And the D-FW ratings were sunnier.
Monday’s Labor Day episode, airing just a few hours after the blackout officially ended, drew 282,252 viewers to easily rank as the the holiday’s top attraction. It was Dome’s biggest showing since July 8th, when it had 309,789 viewers. On the last Monday night affected by the blackout, Aug. 26th, Dome pulled in 227,179 viewers. Roughly 400,000 Time Warner subscribers were affected in the D-FW viewing area.
The Texas Rangers’ Labor Day afternoon loss at Oakland, which dropped them into a first-place tie with the A’s, was the second most-watched TV attraction with an average of 178, 989 viewers on Fox Sports Southwest.
AMC’s new episode of Breaking Bad stayed strong Sunday with 192,758 viewers. An eye-popping 130,765 of them were advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds. In comparison, CBS’ 60 Minutes led the night with more total viewers (234,063). But just 15,947 were in the 18-49 motherlode. The Rangers-Twins game on FSS had 178,989 viewers and 47,841 in the 18-to-49 demographic.
ABC’s two-hour Muscular Dystrophy Association fundraiser, which ran from 8 to 10 p.m. Sunday, averaged just 34,421 total viewers.
Saturday’s big dog, ESPN’s TCU-LSU game from Jerry’s Palace, averaged 282,252 viewers. FSS’s Rangers-Twins game and ABC’s Clemson-Georgia matchup, tied for second opposite TCU-LSU with an average of 158,337 viewers each.
Let’s go to Friday, where the Rangers-Twins on TXA21 won a matchup against ESPN’s competing SMU-Texas Tech game. The Rangers averaged 213,410 viewers, their highest total over these four days, while SMU-Texas Tech drew 151,452 viewers.
Here are Friday’s local news derby numbers, with Labor Day “thrown out” after the four major combatants all took holiday designations throughout the day save for CBS11 at 10 p.m.
WFAA8 had Friday’s best overall showing, running first at both 6 and 10 p.m. in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions. At 5 p.m., NBC5 won in total viewers and tied WFAA8 for the top spot in the 25-to-54 demographic.
LOCAL TV NEWS NOTE
WFAA8 president and general manager Mike Devlin will become chairman of the national ABC affiliates board after incumbent Dave Boylan of Miami’s WPLG-TV resigns as that station’s general manager on Sept. 20th.
Devlin has been at WFAA8 since March 2005. He assumed his current position as both president and general manager of the station in October 2007.
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CBS’ Under the Dome got out from under a Time Warner Cable blackout for the first time in four weeks Monday night. And the D-FW ratings were sunnier.
Monday’s Labor Day episode, airing just a few hours after the blackout officially ended, drew 282,252 viewers to easily rank as the the holiday’s top attraction. It was Dome’s biggest showing since July 8th, when it had 309,789 viewers. On the last Monday night affected by the blackout, Aug. 26th, Dome pulled in 227,179 viewers. Roughly 400,000 Time Warner subscribers were affected in the D-FW viewing area.
The Texas Rangers’ Labor Day afternoon loss at Oakland, which dropped them into a first-place tie with the A’s, was the second most-watched TV attraction with an average of 178, 989 viewers on Fox Sports Southwest.
AMC’s new episode of Breaking Bad stayed strong Sunday with 192,758 viewers. An eye-popping 130,765 of them were advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds. In comparison, CBS’ 60 Minutes led the night with more total viewers (234,063). But just 15,947 were in the 18-49 motherlode. The Rangers-Twins game on FSS had 178,989 viewers and 47,841 in the 18-to-49 demographic.
ABC’s two-hour Muscular Dystrophy Association fundraiser, which ran from 8 to 10 p.m. Sunday, averaged just 34,421 total viewers.
Saturday’s big dog, ESPN’s TCU-LSU game from Jerry’s Palace, averaged 282,252 viewers. FSS’s Rangers-Twins game and ABC’s Clemson-Georgia matchup, tied for second opposite TCU-LSU with an average of 158,337 viewers each.
Let’s go to Friday, where the Rangers-Twins on TXA21 won a matchup against ESPN’s competing SMU-Texas Tech game. The Rangers averaged 213,410 viewers, their highest total over these four days, while SMU-Texas Tech drew 151,452 viewers.
Here are Friday’s local news derby numbers, with Labor Day “thrown out” after the four major combatants all took holiday designations throughout the day save for CBS11 at 10 p.m.
WFAA8 had Friday’s best overall showing, running first at both 6 and 10 p.m. in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions. At 5 p.m., NBC5 won in total viewers and tied WFAA8 for the top spot in the 25-to-54 demographic.
LOCAL TV NEWS NOTE
WFAA8 president and general manager Mike Devlin will become chairman of the national ABC affiliates board after incumbent Dave Boylan of Miami’s WPLG-TV resigns as that station’s general manager on Sept. 20th.
Devlin has been at WFAA8 since March 2005. He assumed his current position as both president and general manager of the station in October 2007.
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