Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., April 15)
04/16/08 09:11 AM
D-FW viewers still haven't puckered up to the Stars, although the team's third Stanley Cup playoff encounter with Anaheim did almost beat a Mission: Impossible repeat on Ch. 52.
The Ducks beat Dallas on its home ice to the tune of 34,098 total homes on Fox Sports Southwest while a 9 to 10 p.m. episode of Mission had 36,534 homes. The Stars' front office and FSS will disavow any knowledge of these ratings.
(Actually, FSS later emailed a press release saying that Tuesday night's loss was the Stars' most-watched game of the season on the network. FSS says the previous "high" was a .8 Nielsen rating (19,485 homes) for an Oct. 12th matchup against Calgary. Go, Stars!)
In the broadcast TV arena, Fox's American Idol as usual set the Tuesday night pace, this time with 309,321 homes. ABC's Dancing with the Stars results show -- porcelain Priscilla Presley got the boot -- then took over at 8 p.m. with 243,560 homes. But the "skew old" show narrowly lost to Fox's competing Hell's Kitchen among advertiser-courted 18-to-49-year-olds.
ABC also won at 9 p.m., with Boston Legal (182,670 homes) nipping NBC's Law & Order: SVU (175,363 homes). The two dramas tied among 18-to-49-year-olds, with Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast just a hair behind.
WFAA8 took the 10 p.m. news wars, averaging 231,382 homes to runnerup NBC5's 204,590. The ABC station won more comfortably with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
WFAA8 took first at 6 a.m. in total homes, but Fox4 claimed the gold in the 25-to-54 demo. The 5 and 6 p.m. competitions again were dominated by WFAA8, which won across the board in both ratings measurements.
The Ducks beat Dallas on its home ice to the tune of 34,098 total homes on Fox Sports Southwest while a 9 to 10 p.m. episode of Mission had 36,534 homes. The Stars' front office and FSS will disavow any knowledge of these ratings.
(Actually, FSS later emailed a press release saying that Tuesday night's loss was the Stars' most-watched game of the season on the network. FSS says the previous "high" was a .8 Nielsen rating (19,485 homes) for an Oct. 12th matchup against Calgary. Go, Stars!)
In the broadcast TV arena, Fox's American Idol as usual set the Tuesday night pace, this time with 309,321 homes. ABC's Dancing with the Stars results show -- porcelain Priscilla Presley got the boot -- then took over at 8 p.m. with 243,560 homes. But the "skew old" show narrowly lost to Fox's competing Hell's Kitchen among advertiser-courted 18-to-49-year-olds.
ABC also won at 9 p.m., with Boston Legal (182,670 homes) nipping NBC's Law & Order: SVU (175,363 homes). The two dramas tied among 18-to-49-year-olds, with Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast just a hair behind.
WFAA8 took the 10 p.m. news wars, averaging 231,382 homes to runnerup NBC5's 204,590. The ABC station won more comfortably with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
WFAA8 took first at 6 a.m. in total homes, but Fox4 claimed the gold in the 25-to-54 demo. The 5 and 6 p.m. competitions again were dominated by WFAA8, which won across the board in both ratings measurements.