In Plain Sight Has 1.3 Million DVR Viewers
For the week of June 30 – July 6, 2008, USA’s just renewed In Plain Sight was the top cable time-shifted show with an absolute DVR viewing audience size of 1.300 million, it was also nearly the top for % audience increase with 30.9%. The cable TV honor for largest % increase from DVR viewing for the week went instead to Army Wives with a 31.8% increase from the 3.423 million that watched it live to give it a Live+7 audience of 4.511 million.
Top 20 Most Time-shifted (DVR viewed) Cable Shows:
| Rank | Programs | Network | Persons Live+7 (000s) | Persons Live (000s) | Time-shifted Audience (000s) | % increase from Live to Live+7 |
| 1 | IN PLAIN SIGHT | USA | 5,501 | 4,201 | 1,300 | 30.9% |
| 2 | ARMY WIVES | LIF | 4,511 | 3,423 | 1,088 | 31.8% |
| 3 | LAW & ORDER: CI (ORIG) | USA | 5,312 | 4,585 | 727 | 15.9% |
| 4 | HANNAH MONTANA | DSNY | 3,951 | 3,409 | 542 | 15.9% |
| 5 | WWE RAW | USA | 5,230 | 4,823 | 407 | 8.4% |
| 6 | WWE RAW | USA | 5,482 | 5,120 | 362 | 7.1% |
| 7 | SPRINT CUP RACING/DAYTONA | TNT | 6,506 | 6,182 | 324 | 5.2% |
| 8 | LIFE SIZE | DSNY | 3,811 | 3,530 | 281 | 8.0% |
| 9 | WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE | DSNY | 3,961 | 3,682 | 279 | 7.6% |
| 10 | NASCAR POST RACE SHOW | TNT | 4,995 | 4,797 | 198 | 4.1% |
| 11 | SUN MOVIE 07/06 HARRY POTTER/GOBLET | FAM | 3,546 | 3,378 | 168 | 5.0% |
| 12 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | 3,517 | 3,353 | 164 | 4.9% |
| 13 | LAW & ORDER: SVU | USA | 3,250 | 3,109 | 141 | 4.5% |
| 14 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | 3,255 | 3,121 | 134 | 4.3% |
| 15 | LAW & ORDER: SVU | USA | 3,803 | 3,671 | 132 | 3.6% |
| 16 | LAW & ORDER: SVU | USA | 3,365 | 3,234 | 131 | 4.1% |
| 17 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | 3,752 | 3,672 | 80 | 2.2% |
| 18 | MLB SUN NIGHT RED SOX/YANKEES | ESPN | 4,126 | 4,049 | 77 | 1.9% |
| 19 | LAW & ORDER: SVU | USA | 3,084 | 3,007 | 77 | 2.6% |
| 20 | LAW & ORDER:CI | USA | 2,985 | 2,909 | 76 | 2.6% |
Our time-shifting chart ranks which of the Top 40 cable shows 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). We include both the absolute size of the time-shifted audience (and sort the chart by that metric), and the % increase over the Live viewing.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
