Comments on: Bowl Games, iCarly and WWE Raw lead weekly cable viewing; Nostradamus no match for SpongeBob

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:35:57 +0000

Bill, the top draw of the marathon was 8pm on 12/24 with 4.54 million. #2 was 10pm that day and drew 4.332 million. We just got the cable data for the week of 12/22 today.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:12:50 +0000

Nothing from TBS on how the “A Christmas Story” marathon went this year?

By: Stephany

Stephany — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:09:16 +0000

Thanks guys! Seeing how good two of my favorite shows are doing makes me so so happy! All hail SpongeBob and iCarly. Note that this comes from a college student! lol.

By: jay

jay — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:51:14 +0000

I look forward to the day when cable ratings are as important to advertisors as network ratings, so we can see what to me would be far more interesting age/gender etc breakdowns. Yeah you can get them for five age subgroups, but only the top twenty. Nice to see the Big 12 outclassed the SEC in the ratings,too. But Florida played Oklahoma like a piano. ( Is Florida really a southern state in the sense that Alabama or Mississippi are? Oh, yeah. I think Ole Miss beat Texas Tech. Never mind.)

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:17:15 +0000

jg, unfortunately we didn't get that kind of data for the week of 12/22-12/28 so we're kind of hamstrung. we did have rating information and viewer numbers for the Emerald Bowl (listed as Miami/Cal) in last week's cable post, but no share info for that or any of the bowl games that aired on cable from 12/22-12/28.

By: jg

jg — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:08:37 +0000

Can someone please list the nielsen shares for all the bowl games? I’d like to see how the Emerald Bowl viewing stacked up against the other 31 games. Thanks.

By: EJ

EJ — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:41:58 +0000

How did each of the New Years Eve and New Years Day college football games do? In particular, curious how the limited distribution (NFL Network on only 1 of 3 cable providers in MN) impacted the Insight Bowl on 12/31.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:19:26 +0000

Any numbers for the Looney Tunes marathon on Cartoon Network last week?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:16:29 +0000

Leverage last night (2.85mm, mentioned in Noah’s link) was down almost a million from the 3.77mm last week referenced above. I don’t think it’s a hit on TNT with less than 3 million.

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:53:23 +0000

see http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998157.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 for info. on Leverage vs. Nip/Tuck.
Would TNT still consider the show a hit if it continues to pull in numbers like this?

By: Rachel P

Rachel P — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:06:05 +0000

Ah, cool, cool. Thanks for the info Robert.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:03:42 +0000

I’d say it’s “pretty good” for a movie going on four years old. It ranked as the 10th best show on SciFi for the week (all airings, not just primetime and it was beaten out by several airings of the Twighlight Zone during SciFi’s New Year’s Eve/Day Twilight Zone marathon. The highest rated program on SciFi for the week averaged 1.927 million, but it was WWE ECW (extreme championship wrestling).

The next best program on SciFi was the Sanctuary episode mentioned above.

By: Rachel P

Rachel P — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:53:30 +0000

…Is that good or bad? Numbers on cable shows confuse me.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:41:49 +0000

Rachel, Serenity averaged 1.606 million on SciFi Saturday night.

By: Rachel P

Rachel P — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:11:54 +0000

Any idea what the Sci-Fi premier of Serenity brought in on Saturday? I was flipping through and happened to catch it when it started, and was surprised to know it was just now premiering on Sci-Fi considering it came out in 2005. I do like the movie more each time I see it though.

By: clutz

clutz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:26:49 +0000

LMAO – “Nostradamus no match for SpongeBob” – Mr. Seidman, that wins the award for Best Post Title EVER

My nephew could have told you that Nostradamus is no match for SpongeBob, and to him it would have meant nothing about TV ratings!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:21:08 +0000

Thx so much 4 the info Rober!!

By: Hot Pocket

Hot Pocket — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:17:16 +0000

Leverage is not a mega-hit, but its doing a solid job for TNT without The Closer on its own at that against stiff competition from Law & Order: SVU over on NBC. Getting close to 4 million viewers on cable is a winner in my mind.

Over at Nick, it looks like the one-two punch of the growing mega-hit iCarly and timeslot neighbor True Jackson, VP are doing really good right now. These are among their highest ratings for an original episode especially True Jackson. 6 million is a whole lot of viewers. iCarly is Nick’s biggest hit since Spongebob. iCarly has great replay value too, look at its ratings at 1pm in the afternoon. That was probably the most watched program at that time on all of television.

Hallmark is killing on Saturday Nights, that’s become a post-CBS Saturday destination for those kind of viewers.

The Bowl games as usual did a great job for ESPN.

Looks like Raw is going to start benefiting from not having to go head to head with Monday Night Football on ESPN until September. 5.7 million viewers is the highest number I’ve seen for Raw in a long while. They’re going to get even higher as they march closer to Wrestlemania 25.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:04:13 +0000

Im looking for Mtv’s The City premiere ratings and for the 2nd episode… someone can help me?
Thx!
xx

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:04:34 +0000

I added the info to the post, but I don’t think there was any uptick. 1.743 million for SGA and 1.85 million for Sanctuary.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:54:43 +0000

Hi,

Any numbers for Sanctuary and Stargate Atlantis? SGA had a big episode on Friday night, 2nd to last episode, was hoping for a nice uptick. Thanks so much.

Best,

Marc