For the week of June 9-15, the Most DVR’d Broadcast Prime-time top 20 looks a lot like the top % gainers list. In this case, Hell’s Kitchen also tops the list with 1.979 million DVR viewers.
The shows on this list that didn’t make the top % time-shifted list are not surprisingly mainly CBS shows (because they have larger, older audiences that tend not to DVR as much), Two and A Half Men, NCIS, 48 Hours Mystery, Million Dollar Password and one NBC show Nashville Star.
Top 20 DVR Broadcast Shows for DVR audience size
| Rank | Programs | Network | Persons Live+7 (000s) | Persons Live (000s) | Time-shifted Audience (000s) | % increase from Live to Live+7 |
| 1 | HELL’S KITCHEN | FOX | 9,660 | 7,681 | 1,979 | 25.8% |
| 2 | SO YOU THINK CN DANCE-WED | FOX | 9,899 | 7,922 | 1,977 | 25.0% |
| 3 | SO YOU THINK CN DANCE-THU | FOX | 8,898 | 7,235 | 1,663 | 23.0% |
| 4 | THE BACHELORETTE | ABC | 6,806 | 5,576 | 1,230 | 22.1% |
| 5 | MOMENT OF TRUTH | FOX | 6,560 | 5,648 | 912 | 16.1% |
| 6 | MEN IN TREES | ABC | 5,081 | 4,240 | 841 | 19.8% |
| 7 | MOLE, THE | ABC | 4,437 | 3,623 | 814 | 22.5% |
| 8 | LAST COMIC STANDING | NBC | 4,470 | 3,690 | 780 | 21.1% |
| 9 | SWINGTOWN | CBS | 7,538 | 6,838 | 700 | 10.2% |
| 10 | FEAR ITSELF | NBC | 5,287 | 4,691 | 596 | 12.7% |
| 11 | HOUSE | FOX | 8,230 | 7,643 | 587 | 7.7% |
| 12 | TWO AND A HALF MEN | CBS | 10,894 | 10,339 | 555 | 5.4% |
| 13 | AMERICAN GLADIATORS | NBC | 5,847 | 5,300 | 547 | 10.3% |
| 14 | BONES | FOX | 7,682 | 7,210 | 472 | 6.5% |
| 15 | NCIS | CBS | 10,351 | 9,924 | 427 | 4.3% |
| 16 | 48 HOURS MYSTERY TUESDAY | CBS | 9,404 | 8,987 | 417 | 4.6% |
| 17 | NASHVILLE STAR | NBC | 6,938 | 6,533 | 405 | 6.2% |
| 18 | SNL 9P 6/15 | NBC | 4,860 | 4,479 | 381 | 8.5% |
| 19 | MILLION DOLLAR PASSWORD | CBS | 9,500 | 9,139 | 361 | 4.0% |
| 20 | FAMILY GUY | FOX | 5,261 | 4,902 | 359 | 7.3% |
Definitions:
Overnights: Local metered-market ratings service of Nielsen Station Index (NSI) in which household ratings and shares are provided to clients the morning following the day or evening of telecast.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
LIVE: The number that watched a program while it was broadcast.
LIVE+SD: The number that watched a program either while it was broadcast OR watched via DVR on the same day the program was broadcast.
LIVE+7: The number watched while a program was broadcast or via DVR within 7 days of original broadcast.
For more information see Numbers 101.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:14 am
The CBS shows are repeats. They were recorded on my DVR the first time around. I only DVR the repeats if I missed one or if it was interrupted by weather concerns such as the tornadoes earlier this year when there were so many weather alerts and we only got part of some of the shows. Interesting that NCIS skews older but it is still recorded, even in repeats. In the case of the CSIs and Two and a Half Men, they run them on so many different channels now you are bound to run into an episode when channel surfing. There aren't any Law and Order shows on that list either probably for the same reason. It doesn't have to follow that we “old” people don't have or don't understand the technology. It is just a basic matter of new material and repeated material.