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Sunday Ratings: Running On Empty; Fox Wins Without NASCAR

Posted on 25 May 2009 by Bill Gorman

Scoreboard FOX CBS ABC NBC CW
Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 1.2/4 1.1/4 1.1/4 0.9/3 0.2/1
Total Viewers (million) 3.60 6.30 4.45 4.21 0.774


You really know it’s a summer holiday weekend Sunday when Fox is able to win the night with a 1.2 average 18-49 demo rating with animated reruns (thanks to commenter craigward for alerting me the NASCAR race was rained out), courtesy of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race from Concord, NC.

You can see overnight reports for past Sundays to compare.

Full details:

Time Net Show 18-49 Rating 18-49 Share Viewers Live+SD (000s)
7:00 ABC America’s Funniest Home Videos (repeat) 1.1 5 4.35
FOX Animation reruns 1.1 4 2.91
CBS 60 Minutes 1.0 4 7.84
NBC Dateline NBC 0.8 4 4.05
CW Jericho (repeat) 0.2 1 0.61
7:30 ABC America’s Funniest Home Videos (repeat) 1.3 5 5.03
FOX Animation reruns 1.1 4 2.85
CBS 60 Minutes 1.0 4 8.06
NBC Dateline NBC 0.8 3 4.15
CW Jericho (repeat) 0.2 1 0.61
8:00 FOX Animation reruns 1.4 5 3.23
ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeat) 1.2 5 4.42
NBC Dateline NBC 0.9 3 5.04
CBS Million Dollar Password (repeat) 0.8 3 5.16
CW Love Is All There Is (movie) 0.2 1 0.88
8:30 ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeat) 1.4 5 4.74
FOX Animation reruns 1.2 4 2.81
CBS Million Dollar Password (repeat) 0.9 3 5.22
NBC Dateline NBC 0.9 3 5.04
CW Love Is All There Is (movie) 0.2 1 0.84
9:00 CBS Cold Case (repeat) 1.3 4 6.43
FOX Animation reruns 1.3 4 2.85
ABC Diamonds Pt. 1 (miniseries) 1.1 4 4.66
NBC The Last Templar (repeat) 0.9 3 4.07
CW Love Is All There Is (movie) 0.2 1 0.89
9:30 CBS Cold Case (repeat) 1.7 5 7.64
FOX Animation reruns 1.2 4 2.65
ABC Diamonds Pt. 1 (miniseries) 1.0 3 4.39
NBC The Last Templar (repeat) 0.8 3 3.56
CW Love Is All There Is (movie) 0.2 1 0.82
10:00 FOX Animation reruns 1.2 4 3.87
CBS The Unit (repeat) 1.1 3 5.06
ABC Diamonds Pt. 1 (miniseries) 1.0 3 4.10
NBC The Last Templar (repeat) 0.8 3 3.78
10:30 CBS The Unit (repeat) 1.1 3 4.97
FOX Animation reruns 1.1 3 3.34
NBC The Last Templar (repeat) 0.9 3 3.95
ABC Diamonds Pt. 1 (miniseries) 0.9 3 3.86

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Shows are sorted by 18-49 rating in each time slot.

Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source: Marc Berman/MediaWeek

Definitions:

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

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.)

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

For more information see Numbers 101.

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29 Responses to “Sunday Ratings: Running On Empty; Fox Wins Without NASCAR

  1. craigward says:

    Actually, NASCAR was postponed due to rain. Animation reruns were aired in place of the race.

  2. Bill Gorman says:

    craigward, thanks for the heads up, our data still had the old program info. I have fixed the post.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Whoa Million Dollar Password did really crappy – that show shouldn’t have come back in the first place after last cycle’s poor numbers.

  4. Don says:

    Million Dollar Password was a repeat.

  5. craigward says:

    thanks guys

  6. Bill Gorman says:

    Don, another thanks for the heads up. Fixed.

  7. Adam says:

    The Last Templar wasn’t a repeat. It was also a mini-series, part one.

  8. Jon K says:

    Last Templar was in fact a repeat. It originally aired in January.

  9. Andrea2 says:

    “The Last Templar wasn’t a repeat. It was also a mini-series, part one.”

    TLT already aired last January. It did 8-9 million viewers (low 2.0 in the 18-49 demo)

  10. bryce says:

    The last templar was a repeat

  11. Paul says:

    CW has it’s highest night in the 18-49 demo= a 0.2 jk lol
    How does CW expect to promote it’s new shows with that demo and virtually no
    original summer programming?
    Dawn Ostroff should have been fired, they should have picked up The Graysons for Fridays or even brought back aquaman to accompany Smallville, The CW claim to have TV to talk about, true but an ANTM rerun isn’t TV to talk about.

  12. Jon K says:

    The CW has two reality shows for the summer – Hitched or Ditched and Blonde Charity Mafia. But both are only 6 episodes each, so that’s only enough for 1 non-rerun hour per week.

  13. johnthemon says:

    It’s gonna be a long, hard and hot summer…hot like an oven.

  14. Dennis says:

    Sorry, does anyone of you guys happen to know what “Animstion repeat” was which show?

  15. Chris the TV Sage says:

    I can tell you the first hour was American Dad and King of the Hill.

  16. Chris says:

    cant wait for for TNT and USA shows to start again

  17. RJ says:

    “cant wait for for TNT and USA shows to start again”

    Agreed. I’m waiting for Leverage, and HawthoRNe on TNT and I’m watching In Plain Sight and waiting for Royal Pains on USA.

  18. Chris says:

    and forgot Ture Blood and Hung on HBO

  19. tony says:

    When will Sit Down Shut up be back?- it did better than some of these animation re-runs.

  20. Julia says:

    Tony, I hope you are joking, but incase you are not, doing better than some reruns is not a good thing. SDSU is gone. ;)

  21. John says:

    Off topic but does anyone know when Night and Day, the new show on TNT about ATF agents and starring William Fichtner, supposed to start?

  22. John says:

    Also, that’s really bad for Diamonds. Why did ABC air a non-repeat TV movie during a notoriously low HUT weekend?

  23. Jon K says:

    John, “Night and Day” is still only a pilot. TNT hasn’t ordered it to series yet.

  24. the128boy says:

    Wow. What a night for broadcast television.

  25. Boris says:

    So much for slotting a romantic comedy on CW Sunday night.

  26. Don says:

    Hurwitz actually said SDSU is returning in June on FOX.

  27. Jesse says:

    @Don

    Returning in June never means anything good. I’ll grant you it’s returning, but it sounds like it’s coming back just to burn off episodes before the start of the fall season.

  28. 5506 says:

    Are shows that are returning in June, just Canceled Shows

  29. Corey3rd says:

    wonder what percentage of the people left the TV on Fox hoping they’d restart the race while they passed out after way too many Jack and Cokes?


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