Thursday Ratings: Giants Score Win for NBC

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Specials, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Grey's Anatomy, Ratings

A Thursday night football game - coupled with John McCain’s RNC speech - gave NBC an easy win in both categories last night.

8pm

• Approximately 13.6 million (5.4/15 in 18-49) watched the NY Giants defeat the Washington Redskins on NBC.
• Big Brother 10 (6.5 million, 2.2/7) stumbled by 700,000.
• A 2-hour Kitchen Nightmares (2.4/7) debuted to 5.3 million.
• Ugly Betty* (4.2 million, 1.1/3) was down 1 million.
• A repeat of 90210* (1.0/3) picked up 2 million.

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Sunday Ratings: Brady Loses in Front of Largest Crowd Ever

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Specials, Sports, FOX, House, Ratings

Although there were other things on last night that didn’t involve football, it’s really pointless to mention them this time around.  So let’s just focus on the nuts and bolts of the New York Giants/New England Patriots match-up:

• Super Bowl XLII averaged 97.5 million viewers overall.  This put the the contest ahead of the 1996 game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers (94.1 million).
• In addition to being the most-watched Super Bowl, the event came in 2nd for total television viewership ever.  The M.A.S.H. finale still holds the top honor even after 25 years.  (A whopping 105.9 million said goodbye to that series in 1983.)
• At its peak, the game drew in nearly 107 million viewers.  (They were all tuning in to see if Tom Brady would cry.)
• As a result of it’s humongous lead-in, a post-game episode of House drew 29 million viewers.  That was easily its largest audience ever.

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Sunday Ratings: FOX Terminates the Competition

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Award Shows, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, Sports, ABC, Cable, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Amazing Race, The, Family Guy, Ratings

The tail end of the Dallas Cowboys/ NY Giants game combined with the debut of Terminator gave FOX an indestructible evening.

8pm

• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (18.3 million, 7.6/18 in 18-49) had the best demos for any scripted debut in three years.
• Approximately 11.6 million wished Jen Happy Birthday/Goodbye on The Amazing Race (3.8/9).
• The first of two Extreme Makeover: Home Editions (3.8/9) built a 10.8 million-sized audience.
• A two-hour Dateline special (4.4 million, 1.1/4) went barely noticed.

9pm

• The first of three Comanche Moon installments (3.3/8 in 18-49) wrangled up 15.7 million.
• Part two of Extreme Makeover (13.9 million, 5.6/13) grew 3 million from the first hour.
• Family Guy (11.5 million, 5.6/12) and American Dad (8.6 million, 4.1/9) had a nice lead-in to thank.
• NBC’s coverage of the Golden Globes (5.8 million, 1.7/4) was hardly something to celebrate.
• One Tree Hill* (0.4/1) averaged 1.2 million over two hours.

10pm

• A new episode of Brothers & Sisters (4.2/11 in 18-49) returned to 10.9 million fans.
• American Gladiators* (1.9/5) took down 4.7 million.

*denotes repeat

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