Nielsen suffered some kind of power outage last night and as a result we’re told there will not be any Fast Nationals this morning, instead they will just publish final national numbers this afternoon.  If the fast nationals wind up getting published before the final numbers, we’ll post a regular overnight report.

This will cause some delays with the normal weekly ratings information as well.

We’re not sure when data will begin to flow again, but we’ll keep you updated.

Update (10:15a PT): everything is still delayed.  Nielsen sent a note to its clients saying the cause was a power outage in its Oldsmar data center this morning. Everything is back up and running and Nielsen will process the data as soon as possible.  Nielsen expects to send out another update at 4pm ET/1pm PT.

Update (1:15p PT): Sorry folks, just heard from Nielsen that none of the normal weekly info (for week ending 11/15) would be processed today due to the problems mentioned above.  Nielsen said it would update us tomorrow morning as far as the weekly numbers go.  So no weekly rankings or Renew/Cancel Index until at least tomorrow.  I’m still not sure about numbers for last night, but will post an update (or the numbers) when I hear.

Update (2:05p PT):  Monday’s data isn’t coming today either.  This is now the equivalent of a TVBTN snow day!

Update (8:00A PT November 18): The logjam is breaking. I’m just seeing the fast national numbers for Monday night…

Update (8:30A PT November 18): Tuesday night’s fast national numbers just arrived so it looks like things are finally back on track.

People seem to want to have a discussion about which browser is best on this slow Saturday.

Here’s the access info for the top 10 browser/operating system for the last 30 days there were 144 combos over the last 30 days, but I only included the top 25:

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I know the fans of Legend of the Seeker are very interested to know how the season two premiere did.  But because of the way syndication works (different areas air the show at different times) there are no overnight ratings for syndicated shows.

I expect we might see some ratings information (ratings points) in a few days.  But we will not likely see the viewer averages for the premiere episode until Tuesday, November 17 since syndicated show numbers take a week longer to produce than the numbers for broadcast and cable shows.

We will post whatever information we see, as soon as we see it.  I’m sorry there isn’t anything to report now, but…there isn’t anything to report now!

I installed the latest update of the WP Touch plugin and based on my own usage it is not having all of the problems from last week with turning the mobile theme on and off.  Though it is still a little quirky it’s definitely not as quirky as before.

Any problems aside from tables being too wide to display on the screen (go into landscape mode, and if it’s still running over, you’re just going to have to look at the regular version of the site if you want to see the full tables), please post them in the comments.

Thanks!

Update 11/2/09: due to some problems (see comments) we have turned off the plugin for the time being.

We’ve recently installed software that will display our site in a modified, faster to load (and we hope improved) format for modern browsers like those used in iPhones, iPod Touches and Android phones, among others. About 2% of our site’s visits are currently from iPhones and iPod Touches, and that’s likely to increase.

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our web host (Rackspace) had some problems with the server farm we’re on in its data center that caused intermittent access problems between ~11:50a-12:30p PT today. Everything seems to be functioning normally now. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The new 2009-2010 broadcast prime-time TV season has begun!

Many readers may be wondering where some of their favorite ongoing posts from last season are.

Here’s a run down of when your old favorites will be back:

Renew/Cancel Index’s Shows Most Likely To Be Cancelled & Renewed - Returns Tuesday, September 29

Season to Date Network TV Ratings -Returns Tuesday, September 29

Broadcast Network 2009-10 vs. 2008-9 Season Ratings -Returns Tuesday, September 29

Most DVR Viewed Broadcast TV Shows – Not certain, we may get data for the new CW shows on September 29, or our data may not resume until we get shows for the current week, which we’d expect on October 13.

You can always check the schedule of our regular posts by clicking on the More Ratings link in the white bar above.

Because of the Labor Day holiday, I’m not sure when (or in what form) we will get the Sunday overnight ratings data. Also, all the regular weekly ratings posts we do on Tuesdays will be delayed until Wednesday or later.