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Archive for March, 2008

Tomorrow: Back in Hell

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I know tomorrow's April Fool's day, so I'm writing this tonight so nobody thinks it's a trick.  While most of the Jericho faithful have been very understanding of my writing, but some  attacked me as an American Idol, Biggest Loser reality TV loving goon (I don't watch either show). Back in ...

Why Does Nielsen Reign Supreme Over the Kingdom?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Frank Foster wrote a great column over on MediaPost's TV BOARD on Nielsen and how it's time for something new.  He concluded the piece, 'The King is Dead. Long Live the King!' with this: I know it sounds ominous, but a solution inspired by the French exists. Storm the Bastille! If ...

CBS “On The Bubble” No More

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Our Renew or Cancel? posts have been on hiatus since the new fall shows went dormant. Now we've got some data on the spring shows as well, and it's time to look at the numbers and take some guesses on who's coming back next fall and who's going away permanently. I'm ...

What You’re Watching on Your DVRs (Cable Networks), March 10-16

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Lifetime's Movie "Wisegal" has 372,000 DVR Viewers For the week of March 10-16, 2008, Lifetime's Saturday movie Wisegal was the top cable time-shifted show with an increase of 11.3% over its Live audience in its Live+7 viewing audience. It also had the largest time-shifted audience of 372,000 viewers. Neither of those ...

Largest % Time-Shifting Gain For Broadcast Shows, March 10-16

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Reaper Has A 32% Increase From Time-Shifting For the week of March 10-16, the spring season return episode of Reaper's audience increased by 32.0% over the 2.256 million that watched it Live giving it a Live+7 audience of 2.978 million making it the leading broadcast show for % increase in ...

What You’re Watching on Your DVRs (Broadcast Networks), March 10-16

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Tuesday's American Idol has a Time-Shifted Audience of 3.7 Million Tuesday's American Idol had the largest time-shifted (DVR viewed) audience at 3.695 million of any primetime broadcast network show for the week of March 10-16, 2008. Idol was followed by Lost with 3.245 million time-shifted viewers. Rounding out the top ...

Nielsen Ratings - Mar 30: CBS and ABC Split Sunday

Monday, March 31st, 2008

[table=1144]The last Sunday of March 2008 is in the books with CBS eking out a victory in total viewers, but conceding dominance in the 18-49 demographic to rival ABC. I was surprised to learn that the NCAA coverage wasn't going to be in primetime. It would seem CBS believes that ...

Fox “On The Bubble”: No More!

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

UPDATE: Fox has renewed Moment of Truth, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Don't Forget the Lyrics, Moment of Truth and 'Til Death for Fall 2008. Fox has cancelled Back to You, Canterbury's Law and New Amsterdam. Moving on to Fox, which has quite a few shows with unannounced futures including Terminator: Sarah ...