Scoreboard
Rating/Share: Adults 18-49	3.7/10	3.5/9	2.4/7	2.4/7	2.1/6	1.6/4
Rating/Share: Adults 18-34	3.5/10	2.2/7	2.7/8	2.5/7	1.7/5	1.9/5
Total Viewers (million)	10.426	14.404	5.617	5.650	6.707	3.460

ABC edged CBS for the overall adults 18-49 ratings on Thursday night, but FlashForward continued to slip in the ratings. After a two week layoff, Fringe dropped sharply to a 1.7 rating.

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Due to the nature of live sports programming the ratings for game one of the World Series on FOX are approximate.  FOX ordered  time zone adjusted version of the Fast National Ratings though, so these won’t change as much as normal in the final national numbers.  See definitions below for more explanation on these  Fast Affiliate Ratings.

Scoreboard
Rating: Adults 18-49	7.4	2.7/7	2.1/6	1.8/5	1.4/4	1.2/3
Rating: Adults 18-34	6.5	2.0/6	1.8/5	1.5/4	1.5/4	1.4/4
Total Viewers (million)	22.34	10.15	6.01	6.44	3.33	2.69

Last night’s game six of the World Series where the Yankees went on to capture their 27th world championship was seen by an average of 22.3 million viewers and had a 7.4 rating with adults 18-49.  Without a game 7, FOX couldn’t push the average for the entire series over 20 million, but it got darn close.  The series averaged a 6.2 rating with adults 18-49 and 19.4 million viewers and was the highest-rated, most-viewed series in five years.   It was up by more than 40 percent from  last year’s record lows.

Outside of the game, ABC’s Modern Family had the best 18-49 ratings for the night with a 3.4/9 (rating/share) that was down a bit from last week’s 3.7 preliminary 18-49 rating. Cougar Town hit a series low with a 2.7/7 with adults 18-49.   Eastwick tied a series low with a 1.6/4 rating.

CBS set some season and series lows too.  Criminal Mind’s 3.2/8 was a low for the season, while CSI: NY’s 2.7/7 was its lowest-rated original telecast ever.

CW’s Top Model reached season highs in women 18-34 (2.9/8) , adults 18-34 (1.9/6), women 18-49 (2.6/7), adults 18-49 (1.7/5) and total viewers (3.96mil).  Top Model tied NBC’s Mercy and ABC’s comedies at 8pm in adults 18-49.

In Late-Night Local People Meters Wednesday night:

• On a night impacted by overrun coverage of the deciding game of the World Series, Conan O’Brien (0.7/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS’s LATE SHOW (0.8/3) in Nielsen’s 24 local markets with People Meters.

• At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) tied CBS’s LATE LATE SHOW (0.5/3).

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Scoreboard
Rating: Adults 18-49	3.4/9	3.3/9	3.0/8	2.4/6	1.3/4	0.9/2
Rating: Adults 18-34	2.5/7	2.6/8	2.3/7	2.5/7	1.4/4	1.3/4
Total Viewers (million)	15.551	12.016	7.978	6.076	3.549	1.776

ABC’s V premiered with a preliminary 5.0 rating for adults 18-49 and averaged 13.9 million viewers, exceeding most expectations of commenters on our site.

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Season To Date Ratings

As good as Fox’s luck was with the baseball ALCS games, their luck with the World Series might turn out much better. If the Phillies can win Wednesday, and force a game 7, Fox might hold onto the adults 18-49 and 18-34 leads for the rest of the season (it’s a given they’ll take them when American Idol appears, regardless). A huge week of baseball and football (through November 1, 2009) stretched Fox’s lead in adults 18-49 and 18-34, and closed a bit of the gap with CBS in adults 25-54. CBS is well ahead  average viewership and I don’t think even a seven game World Series can close that gap in a week.

You can see past week’s broadcast network primetime season to date average TV ratings results here.

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For the week ending October 25, most syndicated show were down from the previous week due to competition from Major League Baseball League Championship Series, and also a drop off in the number of average people watching TV.   Below is the table of top syndicated shows for the week ending October 25, 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 23, not October 30.

Top 25 Syndicated Shows for the week ending October 25, 2009:

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The 2009 World Series dominated the action with both overall viewing and adults 18-49 viewing.  With the game or pregame coverage taking root at the top of both charts.  FOX’s The OT that followed the Vikings-Packers game on Sunday night was third with adults 18-49 and seventh overall.

Monday-Wednesday of last week CBS aired repeats.  Last Monday’s repeat The Big Bang Theory trailed only new episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and The Office for the week among scripted shows.  When it comes to reruns, CBS is the envy of the broadcast networks.   Even the older-skewing NCIS repeat was 22nd with adults 18-49.  It was sixth among total viewers.

On to the lists!

Weekly cable show ratings and overnight broadcast show ratings are also available.

Adults 18-49 viewing for the week ending November 1 2009:

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With the World Series grabbing its best ratings since 2004, and a Bret Favre to Green Bay fueled football overrun in Sunday primetime, it was inevitable that Fox would deliver a giant ratings beatdown to the competition in the sixth week of the primetime season ending November 1, 2009. Fox averaged twice the adults 18-49 rating of all but ABC for the week.

Anyone wondering how woefully NBC is likely to do post-football season can take a look at last week’s results (since there was no Sunday Night Football), but don’t look too closely, they’re gruesome. Note that CBS had many and the CW a few shows in repeats during the week.

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.

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After Monday night football, USA Network took the next five spots at the top, led by Monday Night Raw, White Collar, NCIS and Monk.  Overall USA took ten of the top 25 spots, followed by Nickelodeon with six and Disney with four.

Sadly, I’ve made the decision to no longer field requests.  We always post whatever data we see via press release or other trade publications already.  You can  subscribe to our RSS feed and  you can also follow @TravisYanan on Twitter.  During the week he usually posts some (not all) cable results for each weekday, usually late in the afternoon on the east coast (and Friday night data isn’t posted until Monday) and he posts the links to that info on his Twitter account to the info on Marc Berman’s PI Forums.  You can also follow me on Twitter, sometimes I spit some ratings info out, like this morning for Mad Men and That’s So Raven.

Top 25  cable shows for the week ending November 1, 2009:

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