Just getting the Metered Market overnight numbers up for everyone to chew on waiting for the Fast Affiliate Numbers:
| Metered Market Ratings | ||||
| NET | HH Rating / Share | |||
| CBS | 9.6/15 | |||
| ABC | 8.4/13 | |||
| NBC | 5.9/9 | |||
| FOX | 5.4/9 | |||
| CW | 2.5/4 | |||
| Time | Net | Show | HH Rating | Share |
| 8:00 | CBS | Survivor: Gabon | 7.4 | 12 |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 6.9 | 11 | |
| FOX | MLB Playoff: Dodgers/Phillies | 4.7 | 8 | |
| NBC | My Name is Earl | 4.6 | 7 | |
| CW | Smallville | 2.9 | 5 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | |||
| 8:30 | FOX | MLB Playoff: Dodgers/Phillies | 6.2 | 10 |
| NBC | Kath & Kim (premiere) | 4.9 | 7 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | CSI (premiere) | 14.1 | 22 |
| ABC | Grey’s Anatomy | 10.1 | 15 | |
| NBC | The Office | 5.2 | 8 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 2.2 | 3 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | |||
| 9:30 | NBC | Saturday Night Live Special | 7.1 | 11 |
| 10:00 | ABC | Life on Mars (premiere) | 8.2 | 14 |
| CBS | Eleventh Hour (premiere) | 7.4 | 12 | |
| NBC | ER | 6.7 | 11 | |
| UNI | La Rosa de Guadalupe |
Shows are sorted by HH Rating in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Definitions:
Metered Market Overnight Ratings: This is normally the first available ratings information, and is based on the electronic measurement service that Nielsen provides in 56 of the nation’s largest markets. In each market a sample of homes is selected to represent that individual market. Often, networks or syndicators provide metered market information as an early indicator of a program’s performance. In aggregate, the 56 metered markets represent 79,890,610 homes, or 70% of all U.S. TV households. Preliminary metered market data are available as early as 8:00AM (ET). Final metered market information, reflecting line-up changes, pre-emptions and runovers, are normally available by 3:30PM (ET).
October 10th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Good to see Smallville still doing well.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:00 am
That’s a pretty good premiere number for Life on Mars if it holds. We’ll see what next week brings, of course.
Since it’s ABC, I have to ask, did Grey’s run into the 10 o’clock hour by two mins?
October 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Glad to see Life on Mars did well. Loved it!!
October 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am
How many is that in millions for Life On Mars and Eleventh Hour roughly?
October 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I think it may have run in by a minute, but I am not positive! Seems like a lot of Grey’s viewers stuck around though.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Yay! for Smallville!!
October 10th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Yes! CSI won – On my please take them off the air list–(along with) CIRCUS/DANCING WITH THE STARS (but most of them aren’t dancing)…I also want GREYS off in 3 years…LAST NIGHT’S CSI WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST OF EPISODES – It was powerful!!!
I enjoy Smallville – but its stories are either wearing on me or their just not as good – so I hope this year or next year is its last…
October 10th, 2008 at 9:20 am
CSI looks like it spanked Grey’s Anatomy big time! ABC is not having a good season are they? But at least they aren’t in NBC’s position.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am
That was a gigantic number for CSI…I can’t see it keeping that number throughout its season. Mark Berman labeled 11th Hour a loser…but I don’t know what show could compete with that lead-in. It reached about the same share and demo as Life On Mars which he picked as a winner–I guess because it’s on ABC.
BTW, I was torn between watching 11th Hour and LOM. I watched 11th Hr. and will catch LOM on stream, even it means dealing with ABC.com’s crappy viewer.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Andrea, while I don’t really think Berman’s winners and losers lists are a scientific thing at all, and usually have a ton of bias that has nothing to do with numbers mixed into them, I would think the reason Eleventh Hour would be a loser and Life on Mars a winner, even if they had exactly the same numbers, would be due to retention. It looks like Eleventh Hour only retained about 50% of its lead-in, which Life on Mars was around 80%. Plus, the half hours may be very telling when comparing them.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I am rooting all the way for Life on Mars!
October 11th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Come on supernatural deserves so much better than that.. just because cw is weak people should start waching the show-much better than greys lately.. people just give it a chance
October 13th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Hey Andrea – I saw LIfe on Mars available to watch on Inside the Tube. Its a widget of the premiere if you still want to watch. I have to watch 11th Hour still, but I am sticking with Life on Mars b/c I loved it.
http://insidethetube.blogspot.com/2008/10/watch-series-premiere-of-life-on-mars.html