Baseball season’s over, so there will be no more big weekly ratings wins for Fox until American Idol returns. With a nice rebound for its Sunday night lineup, ABC topped the adults 18-49 ratings (ahead of Fox) and adults 25-54 ratings (ahead of CBS) for the week ending November 15, 2009. Fox continued its weekly wins in the adults 18-34 ratings (ahead of ABC) as it has for most of the season, and CBS, as is typical, was tops in average viewership (edging ABC).
Note that the chart includes RATINGS not VIEWERSHIP as was typical in our weekly network ratings posts prior to July, 2009.
You can see past week’s broadcast network primetime weekly TV ratings results here.
Each rating point is a percentage of the US TV population in that demographic group and equals: 2.90 million viewers, 1.32 million adults 18-49, 0.68 million adults 18-34 and 1.24 million adults 25-54.
Sadly, we will no longer be having a Tiny Network Showdown! since MyNetworkTV ratings averages are not being reported by Nielsen, since they are no longer classed as a network but are now a “programming service”.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
The CMAs also helped ABC a lot this week
It sort of creeps up on you because its harder to get 18-49 To Fifty than overaqll adult Top Fifty, at least for me … but ABC is doing quite well in the main demo. ( Not only winning, but winning impressively.) I think they have a lot of shows performing well in the Top 25 to say 40 shows in the 18-49 demo. And Leno has obviously helped ABC some at that hour. Makes me feel all their bubble shows might make it. When you got the big mo, why jinx yourself? ( And I’m speaking as a hostile witness. But hey, if you let prejudice overcome the facts, you deservbe the ribbings you get.)
My mistake – ABC won the week impressively, and is still trailing for the year in the demo But somehow it feels like with Idolalready factored in and no big sports after the Super Bowl, ABC is chipping away with little minor hits to stay in second in the demo for 2009-2010.