Below is the table of top 25 syndicated shows for the week ending November 1, 2009. For context and additional numbers, check out Broadcasting & Cable’s write-up on the week.
Please note that the syndicated weekly results are delayed versus normal reporting. While we get the broadcast and cable ratings for the prior Monday-Sunday period every Tuesday, there is an extra week of lag time with the syndicated ratings and these numbers are not for last week, but for the week before last. So while Friday Night Smackdown! is now counted as a syndicated show and we are seeing the numbers again, they are delayed. The numbers below are for Friday October 30, not November 6.
Legend of the Seeker fans, the viewer numbers for the season two premiere over the weekend of Nov 7-8 will be available in next week’s report. If I see any number’s before then, I will post them.
Top 25 Syndicated Shows for the week ending November 1, 2009:
| Rank | Program | Network | Day | Duration | HH Rating | Viewers (000) |
| 1 | ESPN NFL REGULAR SEASON | ESP | M…… | 199 | 8.7 | 13,751 |
| 2 | WHEEL OF FORTUNE | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 6.8 | 10,904 |
| 3 | JEOPARDY | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 5.8 | 8,919 |
| 4 | OPRAH WINFREY SHOW | CTD | MTWTF.. | 60 | 5.2 | 7,058 |
| 5 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT(AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 4.6 | 6,730 |
| 6 | JUDGE JUDY (AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 4.5 | 6,600 |
| 7 | FAMILY GUY-MF-SYN (AT) | 2/T | MTWTF.. | 30 | 3.3 | 5,096 |
| 8 | CSI NEW YORK-SYN(AT) | CTD | ……S | 60 | 3.2 | 4,544 |
| 9 | INSIDE EDITION (AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 3.1 | 4,451 |
| 10 | OFFICE-SYN (AT) | NBU | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.9 | 4,254 |
| 11 | LAW & ORDER:CI-WKL (AT) | NBU | ……S | 60 | 3.0 | 4,210 |
| 12 | DR. PHIL SHOW (AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 60 | 3.0 | 4,087 |
| 13 | GEORGE LOPEZ (AT) | WB | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.6 | 3,856 |
| 14 | SEINFELD (AT) | SPT | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.6 | 3,758 |
| 15 | DR. OZ SHOW (AT) | SPT | MTWTF.. | 60 | 2.7 | 3,717 |
| 16 | SEINFELD-WKND (AT) | SPT | ……S | 30 | 2.5 | 3,593 |
| 17 | EVRY LVS RAYMOND-SYN(AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.5 | 3,553 |
| 18 | CENTURY 19 | 2/T | ……S | 120 | 2.4 | 3,542 |
| 19 | MILLIONAIRE (AT) | DAD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.5 | 3,531 |
| 20 | WWE FRI NITE SMACKDOWN | 2/T | ….F.. | 120 | 2.1 | 3,528 |
| 21 | LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY | DAD | MTWTF.. | 60 | 2.7 | 3,502 |
| 22 | REVOLUTION 1 | 2/T | ……S | 120 | 2.2 | 3,393 |
| 23 | WHEEL OF FORTUNE WKND | CTD | ……S | 14 | 2.1 | 3,267 |
| 24 | ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW | WB | MTWTF.. | 60 | 2.3 | 3,226 |
| 25 | JUDGE JOE BROWN (AT) | CTD | MTWTF.. | 30 | 2.2 | 3,102 |
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Please note that the #s for Monday Night Football are the total number both for the ESPN airings and the local markets where the games are syndicated to one of the local affiliates (a rule to ensure the markets playing the game can watch them, even if they don’t have ESPN). As a result Monday Night Football will be at the top of the syndicated lists until football season is over. It’s sort of bogus, but since I can’t break the syndicated portion out, I’m just reporting it as Nielsen does, but you can figure most of the viewing is actually directly on ESPN.
For syndicated shows which air on multiple days, the viewership shown is the average of all telecasts.
BUENA VISTA items are syndicated packages of old Disney movies. For more information click here.
DAD = Disney ABC Domestic Television, SPT= Sony Pictures Television, 2/T=Twentieth Television, ESP = ESPN, CTD = CBS Television Distribution.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Friday Night Smackdown! beats Smallville every week and its a syndie show.
Mediocre syndie ratings for The Office’s first syndie season.
Where’s 2 and a Half Men?
Two and a Half Men hasn’t been showing up lately due to an error of some sort.
Haven’t looked at Syndie ratings in 15 years but Oprah, Wheel, Jeopardy, Judge Judy, Seinfeld, and…..Judge Joe Brown, are still hanging in there after all this time. Amazing how steady the syndie landscape is for some shows and how it changes for others.
Nice to see the Ellen show on the Top 25!
One of my favorite shows is The Unit which was cancelled but now airs in reruns but I’ve not seen how it is fairing in the ratings.
Seinfeld repeats just keep chugging along, what a cash cow they’ve been over the years. Wheel and Jeopardy are just a perfect combo.
For the shows that run Mon thru Friday the total viewers on the right side of the chart- Is that a cumulative of mon thru friday or the average from the 5 shows?
I got to agree not a good start for The Office. Family Guy’s ratings is where is supposed to be at.
I look at the soap ratings and not too many shows are doing better than it so I think that genre is safe for the time being.
One day I want to read that Wendy Williams’s ratings are way higher than Tyresome Banks’s. Any chance of that happening?
Two and a Half Men no longer is counted because My Network TV is not considered a network anymore. Now it’s a “program distributor”.
What is Revolution 1 and Centry 19?
weekly movies distributed via syndication, but Nielsen unfortunately doesn’t include the titles.
I need Legend of the Seeker numbeeeers!