Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., Jan. 30)
01/31/07 02:25 PM
By ED BARK
Pun intended. Fox's Tuesday night ratings are blazing like a House afire.
The return of its dark-mooded doc, paired with another bad audition-pocked episode of American Idol, gave Fox an unambiguously unbeatable duo both locally and nationally.
In the country at large, House drew its largest audience ever and also became the most-watched scripted telecast of this season on any network. And Idol continued to outpace last season's record-setting fifth edition.
The D-FW haul for Idol led Fox4 to a sweep of the prime-time ratings. That included another timeslot win for the station's local 9 p.m. newscast, which has been feeding off bounteous lead-in audiences in January.
Idol's auditions from Birmingham, Ala. set the table with 376,040 homes, well more than twice the audience for 7 p.m. runnerup NCIS (147,560 homes). It was even less of a contest among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, with Idol bringing in 258,000 of 'em to squash CW33's second place Gilmore Girls (72,000).
Even grandma and grandpa are kickin' with Idol, although it was a pretty close race for the roses with NCIS. Among D-FWians 55 years and older, Idol had a 10.9 Nielsen rating (174,400 viewers) to beat back NCIS (147,200).
House also won across the board, with its 302,260 homes doubling up on CBS' competing The Unit (133,280 homes). Fox4's 9 p.m. news then caught the wave with 223,720 homes, outpointing ABC's runnerup Boston Legal (190,400).
The Dallas Mavericks-Seattle Sonics game on Fox Sports Southwest fared decently against all the high-powered Fox attractions, averaging a respectable 123,760 homes.
The four-way local news wars again gave three stations some reason to celebrate while CBS11 typically watched paint peel.
Belo8 won at 10 p.m. in total homes but trailed NBC5 among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
The Peacock prevailed at 6 a.m. in homes while Fox4 took the 25-to-54 crown. Belo8 swept the 5 and 6 p.m. competitions in both ratings measurements.
Pun intended. Fox's Tuesday night ratings are blazing like a House afire.
The return of its dark-mooded doc, paired with another bad audition-pocked episode of American Idol, gave Fox an unambiguously unbeatable duo both locally and nationally.
In the country at large, House drew its largest audience ever and also became the most-watched scripted telecast of this season on any network. And Idol continued to outpace last season's record-setting fifth edition.
The D-FW haul for Idol led Fox4 to a sweep of the prime-time ratings. That included another timeslot win for the station's local 9 p.m. newscast, which has been feeding off bounteous lead-in audiences in January.
Idol's auditions from Birmingham, Ala. set the table with 376,040 homes, well more than twice the audience for 7 p.m. runnerup NCIS (147,560 homes). It was even less of a contest among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, with Idol bringing in 258,000 of 'em to squash CW33's second place Gilmore Girls (72,000).
Even grandma and grandpa are kickin' with Idol, although it was a pretty close race for the roses with NCIS. Among D-FWians 55 years and older, Idol had a 10.9 Nielsen rating (174,400 viewers) to beat back NCIS (147,200).
House also won across the board, with its 302,260 homes doubling up on CBS' competing The Unit (133,280 homes). Fox4's 9 p.m. news then caught the wave with 223,720 homes, outpointing ABC's runnerup Boston Legal (190,400).
The Dallas Mavericks-Seattle Sonics game on Fox Sports Southwest fared decently against all the high-powered Fox attractions, averaging a respectable 123,760 homes.
The four-way local news wars again gave three stations some reason to celebrate while CBS11 typically watched paint peel.
Belo8 won at 10 p.m. in total homes but trailed NBC5 among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
The Peacock prevailed at 6 a.m. in homes while Fox4 took the 25-to-54 crown. Belo8 swept the 5 and 6 p.m. competitions in both ratings measurements.
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