Beauty And The Geek Has A 30% Increase From Time-Shifting
For the week of March 24-30, CW’s Beauty and the Geek’s audience increased by 29.6% over the tiny 1.445 million that watched it Live giving it a Live+7 audience of 1.873 million making it the leading broadcast show for % increase in viewing via DVR.
Lost, which has been at or near the top of the broadcast % times-shifting lists this season, was in rerun that week and dropped off the list entirely.
Smallville had its audience increase by 27.7% over its Live airing placing it second for the week. Rounding out the top 1o were Wednesday’s Big Brother, America’s Top Model, New Amsterdam, Tuesday’s Big Brother, Reaper, Jericho, in a rare appearance by a MyNetworkTV show Paradise Hotel, and Medium.
Top 20 Most % Time-shifted Broadcast TV Shows:
|
Rank |
Programs |
Network |
Persons Live+7 (000s) |
Persons Live (000s) |
Time-shifted Audience (000s) |
% increase from Live to Live+7 |
|
1 |
BEAUTY AND THE GEEK-3 |
CW |
1,873 | 1,445 | 428 | 29.6% |
|
2 |
SMALLVILLE |
CW |
4,385 | 3,435 | 950 | 27.7% |
|
3 |
BIG BROTHER 9-WED |
CBS |
6,212 | 4,876 | 1,336 | 27.4% |
|
4 |
AMERICA’S TOP MODEL-4 |
CW |
3,892 | 3,088 | 804 | 26.0% |
|
5 |
NEW AMSTERDAM |
FOX |
7,126 | 5,656 | 1,470 | 26.0% |
|
6 |
BIG BROTHER 9-TUE |
CBS |
6,303 | 5,030 | 1,273 | 25.3% |
|
7 |
REAPER-THU |
CW |
3,223 | 2,633 | 590 | 22.4% |
|
8 |
JERICHO |
CBS |
6,890 | 5,661 | 1,229 | 21.7% |
|
9 |
PARADISE HOTEL 2 |
MNT |
948 | 783 | 165 | 21.1% |
|
10 |
MEDIUM |
NBC |
10,077 | 8,401 | 1,676 | 20.0% |
|
11 |
ELI STONE |
ABC |
7,399 | 6,226 | 1,173 | 18.8% |
|
12 |
TWO AND A HALF MEN |
CBS |
15,253 | 12,966 | 2,287 | 17.6% |
|
13 |
MEN IN TREES |
ABC |
6,226 | 5,319 | 907 | 17.1% |
|
14 |
AMERICAN IDOL-TUESDAY |
FOX |
26,147 | 22,375 | 3,772 | 16.9% |
|
15 |
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER |
CBS |
11,276 | 9,675 | 1,601 | 16.5% |
|
16 |
CANTERBURY’S LAW |
FOX |
5,181 | 4,464 | 717 | 16.1% |
|
17 |
BIG BROTHER 9-SUN |
CBS |
7,699 | 6,697 | 1,002 | 15.0% |
|
18 |
SIMPSONS |
FOX |
7,526 | 6,569 | 957 | 14.6% |
|
19 |
BIGGEST LOSER 5 |
NBC |
8,354 | 7,363 | 991 | 13.5% |
|
20 |
APPRENTICE 7 |
NBC |
12,818 | 11,326 | 1,492 | 13.2% |
CBS had the most time-shifted shows on a % basis with 6 of the 20 demonstrating again that there are some CBS viewers who are able to operate DVRs.
We’re now splitting our broadcast TV show time-shifting posts, if you’re looking for the most time-shifted shows by absolute audience increase, go here.
The % Time-shifting table ranks which of the Top 150 broadcast shows [by Live+7 viewers] had the largest % increase in viewing between Live audience and Live+7 audience numbers from viewers watching shows later on their digital video recorders (DVRs).
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
NA rocks! I hope FOX is paying attention.
NA rocks! I hope FOX is paying attention.