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Title: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 28, 2009, 10:51:55 AM: THR is reporting that TAR averaged 9.2 million and a 3.2 in adults 18-49. Will get more information within about an hour.

This is how Season 13 started
10.29 million viewers 3.2 adults 18-49

Season 14 (Spring were you expect a decline in ratings)
9.285 million viewers 2.7 in adults 18-49

Just a note Viewer totals really are almost meaningless. The only thing the networks care about is how much money a show generates and that depends primarily on the 18-49 demo for CBS the 25-54 are also important).

So its nice to see us hold steady in that area from last season.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on September 28, 2009, 11:05:21 AM: CBS was helped by the NFL lead-in plus NBC's Sunday Night Football game was a blowout.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 28, 2009, 11:10:07 AM: The sad thing is across the board (except for some of Fox's comedies) shows were down, and in some cases (ABC for example) were down dramatically.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 28, 2009, 11:24:00 AM: Ok

More ratings data coming in. Now the data is on the half hour, and since CBS was running 15 minutes off, that means that some of the data includes two separate shows.

Here is CBS line up

7:00 p.m.

CBS – Football Overrun / 60 Minutes
Viewers: 17.50 million (#1), A18-49: 5.2/16 (#1)

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7:30 p.m.

CBS – 60 Minutes
Viewers: 14.95 million (#1), A18-49: 3.1/ 9 (#2)

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8:00 p.m.

CBS – 60 Minutes / The Amazing Race (season premiere)
Viewers: 12.97 million (#1), A18-49: 3.4/ 9 (#3)

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8:30 p.m.
CBS – The Amazing Race (season premiere)
Viewers: 10.35 million (#3), A18-49: 3.3/ 8 (#3t)

9:00 p.m.

CBS – The Amazing Race (season premiere)
Viewers: 9.98 million (#4), A18-49: 3.3/ 8 (#4)

9:30 p.m.

CBS – The Amazing Race (season premiere)
Viewers: 9.89 million (#3), A18-49: 3.3/ 8 (#4)

10:00 p.m.
CBS – The Amazing Race (season premiere) / Cold Case (season premiere)
Viewers: 9.71 million (#2), A18-49: 2.6/ 7 (#3)

10:30 p.m.
CBS – Cold Case (season premiere)
Viewers: 8.38 million (#3), A18-49: 1.9/ 5 (#3)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 28, 2009, 11:30:11 AM: Based on this I would expect our episodes to look something like this.

Ep #1 10.3 million viewers and a 3.4 adult 18-49

Ep #2 9.9 million viewers and a 3.0 in adults 18-49.

If my guess is correct that actually is really pretty damn good for the show.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on September 28, 2009, 01:19:33 PM: 09.28.2009CBS NOTCHES SUNDAY GAINS
Premiere Sunday Up Over Last Year

60 MINUTES Wins Timeslot with Year-to-Year Audience Growth

AMAZING RACE Delivers Increases Over Last Season's Premiere

CBS Premiere Sunday scored gains on a night of heavy competition, increasing its audience from last year +7% in viewers (11.72m from 10.93m), + 22% in adlts 18-49 (3.3/09 from 2.7/07) and +14% in adults 25-54 (4.0/10 from 3.5/08). 60 MINUTES scored its best premiere delivery in years, with significant growth from last season's opener, while THE AMAZING RACE showed increases over last year, according to Nielsen preliminary Live Plus Same Day ratings for Sunday, Sept. 27.

[Editor's note: the prime time averages include 15 minutes of NFL over-run into the 7:00 PM hour and all ratings are subject to change when updated numbers come in Tuesday]

60 MINUTES at 7:00 PM was first in households (10.3/18), viewers (16.23m), adults 25-54 (5.1/14) and adults 18-49 (4.1/13). Compared to last year's season premiere, 60 MINTUES was up +29% in households (from 8.0/14), +76% in adults 25-54 (from 2.9/08), +86% in adults 18-49 (from 2.2/07) and added +3.64m viewers (from 12.59m, +29%). This is 60 MINUTES best premiere delivery in households and adults 25-54 since 2005 and in viewers and adults 18-49 since 1999.

Compared to last year's one-hour season premiere, THE AMAZING RACE was up +7% in households (6.5/10, from 6.1/09), +3% in adults 25-54 (4.1/10 from 4.0/09) and +6% in adults 18-49 (3.4/08 from 3.2/08).

For the night, CBS was second in households (7.3/12), viewers (11.72m), tied for second in adults 25-54 (4.0/10, with ABC) and delivered a 3.3/09 in adults 18-49.

Updated ratings will be available Tuesday morning.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on September 28, 2009, 02:48:38 PM: You had Sunday Night Football plus the Desperate Housewives premiere. Very respectable numbers opposite NBC and ABC last night. CBS will definitely take those.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 28, 2009, 02:55:55 PM: Yeah, I do worry about next week.

Not about Tar, but about how the whole lineup might effect TAR.

Three Rivers is one of the shows that analysts thought would be one of the first cancellations of the season (well thinks to the CW it wont be the first).

But with nothing seems to generate any real traction with the adult 18-49 (besides TAR) and that does help drag our numbers down.

The good thing, though is that we will look very good compared to the rest of the Sunday lineup.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on September 28, 2009, 03:05:19 PM: Cold Case still does well, so that's still a good 9 p.m. anchor. But I don't know why CBS canceled Without a Trace.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 28, 2009, 03:21:39 PM: Cold Case is dead. It's this year's sacrificial lamb at 10pm.

THree Rivers is airing at 9pm.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on September 28, 2009, 03:33:07 PM: Quote from: mswood on September 28, 2009, 03:21:39 PM
Cold Case is dead. It's this year's sacrificial lamb at 10pm.

THree Rivers is airing at 9pm.
:'( I love Cold Case, the cast totally rocks!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on September 28, 2009, 03:35:08 PM: I miss RACE>>CASE>>TRACE :'(
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 28, 2009, 03:54:45 PM: Quote from: georgiapeach on September 28, 2009, 03:35:08 PM
I miss RACE>>CASE>>TRACE :'(
So do I.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on September 28, 2009, 09:12:27 PM: Strange decision by CBS to get rid of Trace.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 28, 2009, 10:42:44 PM: I actually understand it, cast and crew were expensive. A new show could get a bit lower on the ratings and still (thanks to being cheaper) make the same amount.

Of course they hope new shows do make more, but they understand that tv is about a 60-70% failure rate for new programming.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on September 29, 2009, 06:56:44 AM: I'm positive about the ratings. As long as we keep getting TAR, i'm not complaining!

Still looking forward to the day TAR beats Survivor in ratings!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 29, 2009, 08:25:21 AM: So do I.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on September 29, 2009, 11:28:22 AM: Survivor bleeds viewers each season, while TAR's viewership is mostly steady. I estimate it may take no more than 2 seasons.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 29, 2009, 05:23:15 PM: With finals the 2 hours averaged (and this is awesome for an average) 10.404 million viewers and 3.4 in adults 18-49.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on September 29, 2009, 05:47:50 PM: CBS is happy :yess:

THE AMAZING RACE 15 (P) (8:14-10:14PM) posted a 6.2/10 with 10.40m viewers, 4.1/09 in adults 25-54, 3.4/08 in adults 18-49 and 2.2/06 in adults 18-49. This was the best premiere delivery for THE AMAZING RACE since THE AMAZING RACE 12 on Nov. 4, 2007 in households, viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49. http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/cbs_entertainment/release?id=22892
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Snooky on September 29, 2009, 05:53:09 PM: With all of the football, TAR did pretty good, hope we get a very good amount of viewers this season!
:tup:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on September 29, 2009, 06:06:41 PM: It helped that NBC's SNF game was a dud and a blowout early.

Next week, Fox has the doubleheader so Amazing Race will start on time.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on September 29, 2009, 07:39:06 PM: Quote from: TARAsia Fan on September 29, 2009, 06:06:41 PM
It helped that NBC's SNF game was a dud and a blowout early.

Next week, Fox has the doubleheader so Amazing Race will start on time.
:jumpy: :jumpy: :jumpy: :jumpy:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 29, 2009, 08:26:29 PM: Quote from: puddin on September 29, 2009, 05:47:50 PM
CBS is happy :yess:

THE AMAZING RACE 15 (P) (8:14-10:14PM) posted a 6.2/10 with 10.40m viewers, 4.1/09 in adults 25-54, 3.4/08 in adults 18-49 and 2.2/06 in adults 18-49. This was the best premiere delivery for THE AMAZING RACE since THE AMAZING RACE 12 on Nov. 4, 2007 in households, viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49. http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/cbs_entertainment/release?id=22892
It was our best September start (season 12 started in November) since the Family Edition season 8.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on September 29, 2009, 08:45:47 PM: Damn. I hope they don't think it was because of the elim.

Oh...I am thrilled at the ratings BUT....I don't want whatever jerk thought that up patting himself on the back.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 29, 2009, 08:50:35 PM: I am hoping that we eventually see the episode breakdown. Because I would assume that the 8pm hour did significantly better. Probably by a million viewers and .2 in the demo.

Oh and yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they did it at some point in the future.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on September 29, 2009, 09:12:09 PM: Hate to say it, but many of us in the eastern and central time zones are getting the late single game on CBS

CBS NFL Game Distribution for 10/4 (http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/2009/04-CBS.html)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on September 29, 2009, 09:39:47 PM: Quote from: theschnauzers on September 29, 2009, 09:12:09 PM
Hate to sCBS NFL Game Distribution for 10/4 (http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/2009/04-CBS.html)ay it, but many of us in the eastern and central time zones are getting the late single game on CBS
Darn, guess I'll have to watch it when some of the Filipinos do ;D
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on September 29, 2009, 10:06:34 PM: I'm ok! Getting Baltimore at New England at 1 p.m. :tup: :tup:

I'll tell you who wins. :P
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on September 29, 2009, 10:08:51 PM: Quote from: TARAsia Fan on September 29, 2009, 10:06:34 PM
I'm ok! Getting Baltimore at New England at 1 p.m. :tup: :tup:

I'll tell you who wins. :P
I have found a website to watch it Ken .. and no commericals :yess: . I cheated and watched it there last Sunday, couldn't wait haha :snicker:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: ImANewUser on September 29, 2009, 11:35:41 PM: Quote from: puddin on September 29, 2009, 10:08:51 PM
Quote from: TARAsia Fan on September 29, 2009, 10:06:34 PM
I'm ok! Getting Baltimore at New England at 1 p.m. :tup: :tup:

I'll tell you who wins. :P
I have found a website to watch it Ken .. and no commericals :yess: . I cheated and watched it there last Sunday, couldn't wait haha :snicker:

:funny: Live stream, puddin? :funny:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on September 30, 2009, 12:24:57 AM: Quote from: Raymond on September 29, 2009, 11:35:41 PM
Quote from: puddin on September 29, 2009, 10:08:51 PM
Quote from: TARAsia Fan on September 29, 2009, 10:06:34 PM
I'm ok! Getting Baltimore at New England at 1 p.m. :tup: :tup:

I'll tell you who wins. :P
I have found a website to watch it Ken .. and no commericals :yess: . I cheated and watched it there last Sunday, couldn't wait haha :snicker:

:funny: Live stream, puddin? :funny:
:tup:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 30, 2009, 02:03:26 PM: Here is a bit of interesting info. The 18 -49 demo with homes having 100,000 K income (non sports)

Tar ranked 9th last week, and was #4 for CBS based on Incom.

Thats not only really great but I am actually really surprised. Only 3 half hour comedies on CBS did better.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/30/abc-dominates-premiere-week-with-upscale-high-income-adults-18-49/29053
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on September 30, 2009, 10:25:27 PM: A 4.87? That's amazing! :lol:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 30, 2009, 11:00:44 PM: We don't normally get a peak at the income breakdown of demographics. But the 18-49 (most sought after age demographic) and the Homes over $100,000 (most sought after income demo) are something every show wants to score high on.

I am utterly amazed that we placed so high. I don't know if that was a fluke. Strictly due to the Football overrun. But if that is something TAR does typically well in it that is a huge, huge plus for our show.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on September 30, 2009, 11:04:32 PM: I can't believe that with 4 and a half million more viewers 60 minutes only beat us in the 25-54 demo by .1

If we ever get the 8pm hour breakdown we will easily beat 60 minutes even with a football overrun in every single demographic.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on October 01, 2009, 02:11:33 PM: What I hope to see are the DVR plus 7 numbers. I've already seen posters at various fora mention they watched at a time later than Sunday, and if the show was 10.4 million live, it makes one wonder what the later numbers are.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 04, 2009, 10:44:03 PM: The DVR results (if we get them this season) wont be out until usually two weeks after an episode airs.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 04, 2009, 10:57:54 PM: Last week I posted how well we did in adults 18-49 who lived in households that made at least $100,000. And was very surprised how we did.

Well, I have some more info and it shocks the hell out of me.

They have what is called the upscale index (all part of the info that Nielsen provides). And it has to due with the income level of the household (the higher the index number the better).

Here is the average for the first week of the season for the networks.

NBC 115
ABC 113
CBS 104
Fox 90

a 100 score means you have an average income viewer. So Fox average below average income for its viewers, while NBC reflects a much higher income level.

They then list the top 20 primetime shows (and this does include sports that air in prime time).

CBS had 4 shows that made the top twenty.

TAR ranked #2 out of all shows (it tied with NBC's Community). with an index rank of 144. Only NBC's office scored higher with a 159 Index.

The other CBS shows were
60 minutes 140
How I meet your mother 139
Accidentally on Purpose 119

So person per person, TAR audience is the highest income show on CBS, and is the 2nd highest for all of broadcast networks (for at least this first week).

To bad we don't see this data (this is the first time I have seen a top twenty in this type of data). SO I can't judge how much of this is normal, or how much was from Football.

But I think part of it has to be normal as we out scored Sunday Night Football (which had a 120)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 05, 2009, 11:19:05 AM: Well Fast Nationals are out.

Yuck for CBS

60 min 12.95 million 2.3 in adults 18-49
TAR 9.95 (not bad) million 2.8 in adults 18-49 (I wanted a little higher) and we were last of all 4 networks)
Three Rivers 9.17 million and a 2.0 in adults 18-49 (Terrible), should be even lower next week.
Cold Case 9.69 million 2.2 in adults.

I could see Cold Case moving back to 9pm.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on October 05, 2009, 11:35:30 AM: Fox had a very good NFL lead-in with Dallas-Denver and was close until the end.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 06, 2009, 11:07:19 AM: Finals are out

TAR
9.795 million 2.8 in adults 3.6 in adults 25-54
60 minutes
13.408 million 2.2 in adults 3.1 in adults 25-54
Three Rivers
8.966 million 1.9 in adults 2.6 in adults 25-54 (this show is DOA, it will be pulled in a few weeks).
Cold Case
10.053 million 2.2 in adults 3.1 in adults 25-54

TAR (for CBS) was the highest in adults 18-34 (still haven't got the numbers but it did beat the other shows on CBS), adults 18-49, and adults 25-54.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: walkingpneumonia on October 09, 2009, 03:58:01 PM: Canadian ratings for week 2.
Number 1 show on Sunday night!
Surprising since they were up against "Battle of the Blades" - hockey players and figure skaters team up in a "Dancing with the Stars" like competition.

Program Broadcast Total 2+ Outlet Weekday Start End AMA(000) 1 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 21:00 3648 2 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:01 2998 3 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:00 23:00 2770 4 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2690 5 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2669 6 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:02 23:00 2626 7 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2597 8 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2542 9 H.N.I.C. GAME #1 CBC Total ...T... 19:22 22:15 2508 10 C.S.I. CTV Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2382

© 2009 BBM Canada

I BTW, missed this episode due to the birth of my daughter - who I will call "HeadCold". :funny:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 09, 2009, 04:49:14 PM: you had a BABY wp!? Congrats to you, your newborn and your loved ones :jumpy: :jumpy: :hearts: :yess: :wohoo:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on October 09, 2009, 06:38:31 PM: CONGRATULATIONS WP!!

Tell BabyWP "The World is Waiting for HER!!"

(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb140/ga--peach/BBstarisborn.gif)

:partie: :partie: :partie: :partie: :partie:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on October 12, 2009, 06:31:51 PM: 10.80 million viewers guys! (Thanks to football).

I bet we could get at least 12 million if TAR was on a weekday, though.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 12, 2009, 06:34:37 PM: I haven't posted this in awhile (source (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.amazing-race/browse_thread/thread/c01b0b1d782f724d#))

TAR 15 ratings:

Week 1.1 6.5/10
Week 1.2 5.9/10
Week 2: 5.9/9
Week 3: 6.3/10 (8:42 to 9:42)

TAR 14 ratings:

Week 1: 5.5/9
Week 2: 4.5/7
Week 3: 6.3/10
Week 4: 6,2/10
Week 5: 6.0/10
Week 6: 7.2/11 (8:52 to 9:52) (9.9/13--CBS 8 to 9)
(7.0/11--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 7: 7.1/11 (8:16 to 9:16) (7.8/12--CBS 8 to 9)
(7.2/11--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 8: 6.1/10 (8:38 to 9:38) (6.9/12--CBS 8 to 9)
(6.4/10--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 9: 6.2/10
Week 10: 6.0/10
Week 11: 6.0/10
Week 12: 5.9/10

TAR 13 ratings:

Week 1: 6,2/10
Week 2: 6.7/10 (8:31 to 9:31) (8.4/13--CBS 8 to 9)
(6.7/10--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 3: 5.6/9
Week 4: 6.4/10 (8:45 to 9:45) (8.3/10--CBS 8 to 9)
(6.7/10--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 5: 5.8/9
Week 6: 6.0/9
Week 7: 7.1/11 (8:25 to 9:25) (8.8/13--CBS 8 to 9)
(7.5/11--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 8: 7.4/11 (8:30 to 9:30)
Week 9: 6.2/10
Week 10: 7.0/10 (8:41 to 9:41) (9.3/14--CBS 8 to 9)
(7.1/10--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 11: 6.3/10 (Finale)

TAR 12 ratings:

Week 1: 8.3/13 (8:27 to 9:27) (8.1/12--CBS 8:30 to 9)
(8.5/13--CBS 9 to 9:30)
Week 2: 6.8/10
Week 3: 7.6/12
Week 4: 7.6/11
Week 5: 6.8/10
Week 6: 7.4/11 (8:25 to 9:25) (8.3/12--CBS 8 to 9)
Week 7: 5.3/9 (8:22 to 9:22) (Holiday)
Week 8: 5.9/9 (8:40 to 9:40)
Week 9: 7.2/11 (8:42 to 9:42)
Week 10: 6.8/10
Week 11: 5.8/9 (Finale)

TAR 11 ratings:

Week 1: 6.7/10 (8:28 to 9:28) (7.0/11--CBS 8 to 9)
(7.2/11--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 2: 4.9/7
Week 3: 6.3/10
Week 4: 5.9/10
Week 5: 7.8/12 (8:45 to 9:45) (8.9/14--CBS 8 to 9)
(8.0/12--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 6: 6.8/11 (8:38 to 9:38) (7.1/12--CBS 8 to 9)
(7.2/11--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 7: 5.1/8 and 5.5/8
Week 8: 5.4/9
Week 9: 5.6/9
Week10: 5.4/9
Week11: 5.8/10
Week12: 6.2/10

TAR 10 ratings:

Week 1: 6.4/10 (first half hour) and 6.3/9
Week 2: 6.6/10
Week 3: 7.8/12 (8:34 to 9:34) (8.5/13--CBS 8 to 9)
Week 4: 6.4/10
Week 5: 7.4/11 (8:22 to 9:22) (8.1/12--CBS 8 to 9)
(8.2/12--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 6: 6.8/10
Week 7: 8.3/13 (8:20 to 9:20) (8.2/13--CBS 8 to 9)
(8.8/13--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 8: 7.7/11 (8:31 to 9:31) (8.5/12--CBS 8 to 9)
(8.3/12--CBS 9 to 10)
Week 9: 6.8/10
Week10: 7.9/12 (8:22 to 9:22) (8.9/13--CBS 8 to 9)
(8.6/13--CBS 9 to 10)

Week11: 6.5/10
Week12: 6.6/10
Week13: 8.0/12 (8:25 to 9:25) (8.4/13--CBS 8 to 9)
(8.3/12--CBS 9 to 10)

TAR 9 ratings:

Week 1: 6.9/10 and 6.3/10
Week 2: 6.1/10
Week 3: 6.1/10
Week 4: 6.0/10
Week 5: 5.6/9
Week 6: 5.0/8 (new time slot)
Week 7: 5.0/9
Week 8: 5.6/10
Week 9: 5.3/9
Week 10: 5.0/8
Week 11: 5.5/9
Week 12: 5.3/9 and 5.5/8 (Two hour finale)

TAR 8 ratings:

Week 1: 7.0/10 and 6.5/10
Week 2: 7.2/11
Week 3: 7.1/10
Week 4: 7.1/11
Week 5: 6.7/10
Week 6: 6.8/10
Week 7: 6.5/10 and 6.5/11
Week 8: 6.3/10
Week 9: No program.
Week10: 5.5/8
Week11: 6.7/10
Week12: 6.8/10 and 7.3/11 (Two hour finale)

TAR 7 ratings:

Week 1: 7.5/11 and 7.4/12
Week 2: 7.1/11
Week 3: 7.6/12
Week 4: 7.8/12
Week 5: 7.7/12 and 7.8/12
Week 6: 7.6/12
Week6A: 3.6/7 (Clips show)
Week 7: 8.1/12
Week 8: 7.7/12
Week 9: 8.5/13
Week10: 8.1/12
Week11: 9.1/14 and 10.1/16 (Two hour finale)

TAR 6 ratings:

Week 1: 7.3/11 and 7.5/12 (Two hour premiere)
Week 2: 7.1/11
Week 3: 7.6/11
Week 4: 7.5/11
Week 5: 7.0/11
Week 6: 6.2/10
Week 7: 6.4/11 (Clips show)
Week 8: 7.3/11
Week 9: 7.1/11
Week10: 6.6/10
Week11: 7.5/11
Week12: 7.5/11
Week13: 7.5/11 and 7.8/13 (Two hour finale)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 13, 2009, 03:03:08 PM:    CBS DOMINATES THE WEEK IN VIEWERS AND KEY DEMOS

ONLY CBS Scores Across-the-Board Increases Compared to the Same



CBS Leads Season in all Measures


"Survivor: Samoa" and "The Amazing Race" Notch Largest Audiences of the Season

   CBS continued its season-long winning streak, placing first in viewers for the third consecutive week and first in key demographics, winning all categories by the largest margins of any network this season, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Oct. 11, week three of the 2009-2010 television season.

   CBS posted its best deliveries in viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 since April and was the ONLY network to see year-to-year gains in all key measures. CBS now leads for the season in all key ratings categories.


For the week in key demographics, CBS was first in both adults 25-54 (4.2/11) and adults 18-49 (3.3/09). Compared to the same week last year, CBS was up +10% in households, +11% in viewers, +5% in adults 25-54 and +3% in adults 18-49. CBS was the only network to post gains in all these measures. Season-to-date, CBS is first in adults 25-54 and adults 18-49.

   For the week in households: CBS (7.6/13), ABC (5.4/09), NBC (4.8/08) and FOX (3.9/06). In households, season-to-date, CBS is first (7.6/13), ahead of ABC (6.4/11), NBC (4.9/08) and FOX (4.5/07).


CBS's Weekly Highlights:

  CBS's NFL runover from 7:00-7:43PM posted a 15.3/27 with 25.84m viewers, 10.0/28 in adults 25-54 and 9.0/28 in adults 18-49.

⁮ 60 MINUTES (7:43-8:43PM) delivered a 9.1/15 with 14.54m viewers, 4.4/11 in adults 25-54 and 3.5/09 in adults 18-49 - all first in the 7:30-8:30PM time slot.



⁮ THE AMAZING RACE 15 (8:43-9:43PM) delivered a 6.1/09 in households, 10.52m viewers, 4.0/09 in adults 25-54, 3.2/08 in adults 18-49. This was a season-high for THE AMAZING RACE 15 in viewers.

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Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on October 13, 2009, 08:43:13 PM: One little detail not quoted above:

Quote
20. (24) "The Amazing Race 15," CBS, 10.52 million viewers.

So TAR made it back into the Top 20, after being 24th last week, and IIRC 28th premiere week. That's a good trend line.

In comparing TAR 15 to the earlier seasons, keep in mind that the value of a ratinngs point, i.e., one percent of total households has increased every television year. A ratings point this year represents more households than last year (Sept 08-May 09). and the year before, etc.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 19, 2009, 07:40:00 PM: TAR 15 ratings:

Week 1.1 6.5/10
Week 1.2 5.9/10
Week 2: 5.9/9
Week 3: 6.4/10 (8:42 to 9:42)
Week 4: 5.9/9 (9:14 to 10:14)

o_O
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on October 20, 2009, 06:04:56 AM: Is it good or bad? I want more TAR seasons! :'(
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 20, 2009, 10:05:47 AM: Joab

I didn't even try and post the fast nationals for this week due to the huge, huge overrun.

When they report early numbers they go off the East Coast, Midwest air time, thus int his case the numbers should go up in finals (out today) due to West Coast numbers (for 915-10:15 are actually for the show THree Rivers (which doesn't perform well).

We should be over 10 million and over a 3.0 in the adult demo when finals are out. Not bad when we are in full competition with NBC Football and Desperate Housewives.

And in realtionship to the rest of Sunday, we are the networks strongest sunday show.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 20, 2009, 12:31:47 PM: Finals are out (seasonhigh in total viewers)
60 minutes 14.317 3.2 in adults 18-49
TAR 10.923 3.3 in adults 18-49 (CBS top performer).
Three Rivers 7.829 million 1.9 in adults 18-49 (It's so dead)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on October 20, 2009, 12:35:41 PM: Quote from: mswood on October 20, 2009, 12:31:47 PM

Three Rivers 7.829 million 1.9 in adults 18-49 (It's so dead)

Maybe it needs a transplant? :lol3:

YIPPEE FOR TAR!! :jumpy:

How are we doing with DVR numbers? ???
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 20, 2009, 01:32:44 PM: CBS's 2009-2010 WINNING STREAK CONTINUES

Network Places First in Viewers and Adults 25-54 for the Fourth Straight Week and First in Adults 18-49 for the Second Consecutive Week

CBS Has 7 of the Top 10 Programs Including the Top 6 Scripted Series

"NCIS" and "NCIS: LOS ANGELES" Are the #1 Show and #1 New Show, Respectively, For The Fourth Consecutive Week

This Marks the First Time the Same Network Has Had the Same #1 Show and #1 New Show for the First Four Weeks of the Season Since Fall 1998

"The Big Bang Theory" Is Top Comedy in Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54

"Survivor: Samoa" and "The Amazing Race" Hit Season High Audience Deliveries

"CSI," "The Mentalist," "Numb3rs" and "Three Rivers" All Post

Week-to-Week Growth

CBS extended its new season winning streak to four weeks in viewers and adults 25-54 and placed first in adults 18-49 for the second consecutive week, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Oct. 18, week four of the 2009-2010 television season.

CBS dominated the weekly viewer rankings with seven of the Top 10 programs including the top six scripted series: NCIS (#1 for the fourth straight week), NCIS: LOS ANGELES (#4), CSI (#5), THE MENTALIST (#6), TWO AND A HALF MEN (#8) and CRIMINAL MINDS (#10).

NCIS and NCIS: LOS ANGELES were the number one show and number one new show for the fourth consecutive week marking the first time the same network has had the same #1 show and #1 new show for the first four weeks of the season since fall 1998 (NBC's "E.R." and "Jesse").

THE BIG BANG THEORY was the Number One comedy in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 (tied with TWO AND A HALF MEN), SURVIVOR: SAMOA and THE AMAZING RACE hit new season high audience deliveries and CSI, THE MENTALIST, NUMB3RS and THREE RIVERS all posted week-to-week growth.

For the week in viewers: CBS (11.88m), ABC (9.03m), FOX (8.14m) and NBC (7.41m). Season-to-date, CBS is first in viewers (12.40m), ahead of ABC (9.97m), FOX (7.96m) and NBC (7.84m).

For the week in key demographics, CBS was first in both adults 25-54 (4.1/10) and adults 18-49 (3.2/09). CBS was first in adults 25-54 for the fourth consecutive week, first in adults 18-49 for the second straight week. Compared to the same week last year, CBS was up +3% in both households and viewers, even in both adults 25-54 and adults 18-49. Season-to-date, CBS is first in adults 25-54 and adults 18-49.

For the week in households: CBS (7.5/12), ABC (5.8/10), FOX (4.8/08) and NBC (4.7/08). Season-to-date, CBS is first (7.7/13), ahead of ABC (6.4/11), NBC (4.9/08) and FOX (4.7/08).

CBS's Weekly Highlights:

-- Monday, CBS won adults 25-54 (4.9/11), adults 18-49 (4.1/10), was second in households (7.3/11), viewers (11.68m) and adults 18-34 (2.9/08). Compared to last week, CBS was up +3% in viewers (from 11.32m), +4% in both adults 25-54 (from 4.7/11) and adults 18-34 (from 2.8/07), +5% in adults 18-49 (from 3.9/09) and even in households.

⁮ HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (5.4/08, 8.56m) was second in adults 18-49 (3.6/09) and adults 18-34 (3.2/09). Compared to last week, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was up +2% in households (from 5.3/08), +3% in adults 25-54 (4.0/09 from 3.9/09), +6% in adults 18-49 (from 3.4/09), +10% in adults 18-34 (from 2.9/08) and added +480,000 viewers (from 8.08m, +6%).

⁮ ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE was up +2% in households (4.8/07 from 4.7/07), +6% in adults 25-54 (3.6/08 from 3.4/07), +7% in adults 18-49 (3.0/07 from 2.8/07), +21% in adults 18-34 (2.3/06 from 1.9/05) and added +560,000 viewers (7.73m from 7.17m, +8%) compared to last week.

⁮ TWO AND A HALF MEN was first in adults 25-54 (6.0/13), adults 18-49 (4.8/11), adults 18-34 (3.1/08), second behind ABC in both households (8.7/13) and viewers (14.17m) at 9PM. Compared to last week, TWO AND A HALF MEN was up +4% in households (from 8.4/12), +9% in both adults 25-54 (from 5.5/12) and adults 18-49 (from 4.4/10), +15% in adults 18-34 (from 2.7/07) and added +870,000 viewers (from 13.30m, +7%).

⁮ THE BIG BANG THEORY was first in adults 25-54 (6.0/13), adults 18-49 (5.0/12), adults 18-34 (3.4/09), second in both households (8.0/12) and viewers (13.07m). THE BIG BANG THEORY built on its TWO AND A HALF MEN lead-in by +4% in adults 18-49, +10% in adults 18-34 and retained 100% of its adults 25-54 lead-in. THE BIG BANG THEORY was up +3% in households (from 7.8/12), +7% in adults 25-54 (from 5.6/12), +6% in adults 18-49 (from 4.7/11), +3% in adults 18-34 (from 3.3/09) and added +550,000 viewers (from 12.52m, +4%) compared to last week.

⁮ CSI: MIAMI was first in households (8.5/14), viewers (13.27m), adults 25-54 (5.0/12), adults 18-49 (4.0/11) and adults 18-34 (2.7/08). CSI: MIAMI was up +2% in adults 25-54 (from 4.9/12), +3% in adults 18-49 (from 3.9/10) compared to last week.

-- CBS was first in households (10.4/17), viewers (16.47m), adults 25-54 (5.0/12) for the fourth consecutive Tuesday and second in adults 18-49 (3.6/10, -0.2 behind FOX's "Hell's Kitchen" finale). CBS won every half-hour in viewers and adults 25-54 Tuesday, also for the fourth consecutive week.

⁮ NCIS won its time slot in households (12.9/20), viewers (21.04m), adults 25-54 (6.4/16) and adults 18-49 (4.5/13) for the fourth consecutive week. Compared to last week, NCIS was up +7% in adults 25-54 (from 6.0/15), +5% in adults 18-49 (from 4.3/12) and added +340,000 viewers (from 20.70m, +2%).

⁮ NCIS: LOS ANGELES was first in households (9.7/15), viewers (15.38m) and adults 25-54 (4.8/11) - all for the fourth consecutive week - and averaged a 3.5/09 in adults 18-49.

⁮ THE GOOD WIFE was first in households (8.7/15), viewers (12.98m), adults 25-54 (3.8/10) and adults 18-49 (2.8/08) for the fourth consecutive week.

-- Wednesday, CBS was first in households (7.3/12), viewers (11.42m), adults 25-54 (4.0/10) and tied for first in adults 18-49 (3.1/09, with FOX). CBS placed first in these measures every Wednesday this season.

⁮ THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE was tied for first in adults 25-54 (2.8/08, with FOX), second in both households (4.6/08) and adults 18-49 (2.1/07), third in viewers (6.99m). Compared to last week, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE was up +2% in households (from 4.5/08), +8% in adults 25-54 (from 2.6/07), +11% in adults 18-49 (from 1.9/06) and added +130,000 viewers (from 6.86m, +2%). These were THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE's best deliveries in these measures since its season premiere (Sept. 23, 2009).

⁮ GARY UNMARRIED (4.4/07, 6.91m) was first in adults 25-54 (3.0/08), second in adults 18-49 (2.3/07), tied for second in households (with FOX). Compared to last week, GARY UNMARRIED was up +2% in households (from 4.3/07), +7% in adults 25-54 (from 2.8/07), +5% in adults 18-49 (from 2.2/06) and added 70,000 viewers (from 6.84m, +1%). This was GARY UNMARRIED's best households delivery since May 6, 2009, best adults 25-54 since March 18, 2009, best adults 18-49 since Sept. 23, 2009 and best viewers total since Apr. 8, 2009.

⁮ CRIMINAL MINDS was first in households (8.5/13), viewers (13.92m), adults 25-54 (4.8/12) and adults 18-49 (3.8/10) for the fourth consecutive week. Compared to last week, CRIMINAL MINDS was up +6% in adults 18-49 (from 3.6/09). CRIMINAL MINDS was the night's #1 program in viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 for the fourth straight week.

⁮ CSI: NY was first in households (8.8/15), viewers (13.40m), adults 25-54 (4.2/11) and adults 18-49 (3.2/09) for the fourth consecutive week.

⁮ SURVIVOR: SAMOA was first in households (7.0/11), viewers (11.78m), adults 25-54 (4.5/12) and adults 18-49 (3.5/10) for the third consecutive week. This is SURVIVOR: SAMOA's largest audience this season. Compared to last week, SURVIVOR: SAMOA was up +3% in adults 18-49 (from 3.4/10), even in both households and adults 25-54 and added +90,000 viewers (from 11.69m, +1%).

⁮ CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION was first in households (9.7/15), viewers (15.38m), second in adults 25-54 (5.0/12) and adults 18-49 (3.6/09). Compared to last week, CSI was up +4% in both households (from 9.3/14) and adults 25-54 (from 4.8/11), +3% in adults 18-49 (from 3.5/09) and added +480,000 viewers (from 14.90m, +3%).

⁮ THE MENTALIST was first in households (9.7/16), viewers (15.08m), adults 25-54 (4.8/12) and second in adults 18-49 (3.5/10). Compared to last week, THE MENTALIST was up +3% in households (from 9.4/16), +4% in adults 25-54 (from 4.6/12), +6% in adults 18-49 (from 3.3/09) and added +380,000 viewers (from 14.70m, +3%).

⁮ NUMB3RS was second in households (5.1/09) and viewers (8.01m). Compared to last week, NUMB3RS was up +4% in both households (from 4.9/09) and adults 25-54 (2.4/07 from 2.3/06), +13% in adults 18-49 (1.8/06 from 1.6/05) and added +670,000 viewers (from 7.34m, +9%).

⁮ THE AMAZING RACE 15 (9:15-10:15PM) delivered a 6.4/10 in households, 10.92m viewers, 4.1/09 in adults 25-54, 3.3/08 in adults 18-49 and 2.0/05 in adults 18-34. This was a season-high for THE AMAZING RACE 15 in both households and viewers, best delivery in adults 25-54, adults 18-49 and adults 18-34 since the two-hour season premiere on September 27, 2009.

⁮ THREE RIVERS (10:15-11:15PM) posted a 5.0/09 in households, 7.83m in viewers, 2.4/06 in adults 25-54 and 1.9/05 in adults 18-49 at 10PM. Compared to last week (with a 9:43PM start time), THREE RIVERS was up +6% in households (from 4.7/07), +4% in adults 25-54 (from 2.3/05), +12% in adults 18-49 (from 1.7/04) and added +500,000 viewers (from 7.33m, +7%).

CBS top programs of the week: #1 NCIS (an average of 21.04m viewers), #4 NCIS: LOS ANGELES (15.384m), #5 CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (15.376m), #6 THE MENTALIST (15.08m), #7 60 MINUTES (14.32m), #8 TWO AND A HALF MEN (14.17m), #10 CRIMINAL MINDS (13.92m), #14 CSI: NY (13.40m), #15 CSI: MIAMI (13.27m), #16 THE BIG BANG THEORY (13.07m), #17 THE GOOD WIFE (12.98m), #19 SURVIVOR: SAMOA (11.78m) and #20 THE AMAZING RACE (10.92m).

Prime averages are based on the following hours of rated broadcasts in Week #4:

CBS - 22 hours

NBC - 21.5 hours

ABC - 22 hours

FOX - 17 hours

NATIONAL NIELSEN SUMMARY - PRIMETIME

Week #4 of 2009-10 Season (ending: 10/18/09)

2009-10 2008-09

HOUSEHOLDS

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 7.5 12 7.3 12 +3%

NBC 4.7 8 4.6 7 +2%

ABC 5.8 10 5.9 10 -2%

FOX 4.8 8 4.2 7 +14%

VIEWERS

(000) (000) Chg

CBS 11,878 11,489 +3%

NBC 7,414 7,220 +3%

ABC 9,033 9,163 -1%

FOX 8,139 6,734 +21%

A25-54

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 4.1 10 4.1 10 n.c.

NBC 2.9 7 3.0 8 -3%

ABC 3.2 8 3.3 8 -3%

FOX 3.3 8 2.7 7 +22%

A18-49

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 3.2 9 3.2 9 n.c.

NBC 2.6 7 2.7 7 -4%

ABC 2.6 7 2.8 8 -7%

FOX 3.1 9 2.5 7 +24%

A18-34

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 2.1 7 2.1 6 n.c.

NBC 2.2 7 2.3 7 -4%

ABC 2.0 6 2.2 7 -9%

FOX 2.9 9 2.4 7 +21%

NATIONAL NIELSEN SUMMARY - PRIMETIME

SEASON-TO-DATE RATINGS REPORT (09/21/09-10/18/09)

2009-10 2008-09

HOUSEHOLDS

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 7.7 13 7.5 12 +3%

NBC 4.9 8 5.1 8 -4%

ABC 6.4 11 6.9 11 -7%

FOX 4.7 8 4.7 7 n.c.

VIEWERS

(000) (000) Chg

CBS 12,395 11,910 +4%

NBC 7,839 8,126 -4%

ABC 9,974 10,652 -6%

FOX 7,963 7,590 +5%

A25-54

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 4.3 11 4.4 11 -2%

NBC 3.2 8 3.5 9 -9%

ABC 3.6 9 4.0 10 -10%

FOX 3.4 8 3.1 8 +10%

A18-49

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 3.4 9 3.4 9 n.c.

NBC 2.8 8 3.1 8 -10%

ABC 3.0 8 3.3 9 -9%

FOX 3.2 9 2.9 8 +10%

A18-34

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 2.2 7 2.3 7 -4%

NBC 2.4 7 2.8 8 -14%

ABC 2.4 7 2.7 8 -11%

FOX 3.2 10 2.7 8 +19%

National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: PER2+ for 10/12/2009 - 10/18/2009

Persons 2+ (000)

1. NCIS CBS 21035

2. NBC Sunday Night Football Bears vs. Falcons NBC 18170

3. Dancing With The Stars ABC 16789

4. NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 15384

5. CSI CBS 15376

6. THE MENTALIST CBS 15080

7. 60 MINUTES CBS 14317

8. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 14174

9. Dancing With The Stars Results ABC 13955

10. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 13917

11. Grey's Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 13786

12. Desperate Housewives ABC 13677

13. House FOX 13498

14. CSI: NY CBS 13402

15. CSI: MIAMI CBS 13273

16. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 13068

17. THE GOOD WIFE CBS 12978

18. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick NBC 12003

19. SURVIVOR: SAMOA CBS 11779

20. AMAZING RACE 15 CBS 10923

National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: A25-54 for 10/12/2009 - 10/18/2009

Adults 25-54 Rating

1. NBC Sunday Night Football Bears vs. Falcons NBC 7.9

2. NCIS CBS 6.4

3. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 6.0

3. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 6.0

5. House FOX 5.7

6. Grey's Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 5.6

7. Desperate Housewives ABC 5.5

8. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick NBC 5.1

9. CSI CBS 5.0

9. CSI: MIAMI CBS 5.0

11. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 4.8

11. NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 4.8

11. THE MENTALIST CBS 4.8

14. Dancing With The Stars ABC 4.6

15. SURVIVOR: SAMOA CBS 4.5

16. 60 MINUTES CBS 4.4

17. Private Practice ABC 4.3

18. CSI: NY CBS 4.2

18. Hell's Kitchen FOX 4.2

18. Modern Family ABC 4.2

National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: A18-49 for 10/12/2009 - 10/18/2009

Adults 18-49 Rating

1. NBC Sunday Night Football Bears vs. Falcons NBC 7.2

2. House FOX 5.2

3. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 5.0

3. Grey's Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 5.0

5. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 4.8

6. Desperate Housewives ABC 4.6

7. NCIS CBS 4.5

7. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick NBC 4.5

9. Family Guy FOX 4.2

10. Simpsons FOX 4.1

10. The Office NBC 4.1

12. CSI: MIAMI CBS 4.0

13. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 3.8

13. Private Practice ABC 3.8

13. Hell's Kitchen FOX 3.8

13. Cleveland FOX 3.8

17. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER CBS 3.6

17. CSI CBS 3.6

17. Modern Family ABC 3.6

17. Dancing With The Stars ABC 3.6

* * *
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 20, 2009, 01:34:04 PM: SECOND WEEK LIVE PLUS 7-DAY DVR PLAYBACK SEES 14 CBS SERIES GAINING MORE THAN ONE MILLION VIEWERS

13 Programs Posts Gains of Half a Rating Point Among Adults 18-49

"The Mentalist" Notches the Network's Largest Viewer Increase with +2.83 Million Viewers While "CSI" Posts the Largest Adult 18-49 Boost Adding +1.1 Rating Points

CBS Adds +1.18 Million Viewers for the Week, More Than Any Other Network and +0.4 of a Rating Point Among Adults 18-49

Second week live plus 7-day DVR playback results saw 14 CBS series gaining an additional one million viewers or more and 13 series posting adult 18-49 increases of at least half a rating point, according to Nielsen live +7-day ratings for the week ending Oct. 4.

For the second consecutive week, THE MENTALIST had the second largest lift among all primetime programs, gaining +2.83 million additional viewers. CSI gained +2.31 million additional viewers while NCIS (+1.99m) and CRIMINAL MINDS (+1.93m) were just under two million.

Among adults 18-49, CSI's +1.1 rating point gain was the biggest among CBS programs and third highest among all primetime programs. THE MENTALIST notched a full rating point increase, also one of the largest of any program.

With live plus 7-day viewing factored in, CBS's second week increased by +1.18 million viewers (12.52m from 11.34m), +0.4 in adults 18-49 (3.3 from 2.9) and +0.5 in adults 25-54 (4.3 from 3.8) over its live plus same day scores.

CBS programs with lifts of one million viewers:

•· THE MENTALIST (+2.83m)

•· CSI (+2.31m)

•· NCIS (+1.99m)

•· CRIMINAL MINDS (+1.93m)

•· THE BIG BANG THEORY (+1.66m)

•· NCIS: LOS ANGELES (+1.62m)

•· THE GOOD WIFE (+1.60m)

•· CSI: MIAMI (+1.53m)

•· TWO AND A HALF MEN (+1.50m)

•· CSI: NY (1.49m)

•· NUMBERS (+1.27m)

•· GHOST WHISPERER (+1.12m)

•· MEDIUM (+1.11m)

•· COLD CASE (1.03m)

CBS programs with lifts of a half a rating point or more in adults 18-49:

•· CSI (+1.1)

•· THE MENTALIST (+1.0)

•· THE BIG BANG THEORY (+0.7)

•· CRIMINAL MINDS (+0.7)

•· TWO AND A HALF MEN (+0.6)

•· HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (+0.6)

•· NCIS (+0.6)

•· NCIS: LOS ANGELES (+0.6)

•· CSI: MIAMI (+0.5)

•· CSI: NY (+0.5)

•· THE AMAZING RACE (0.5)

•· SURVIVOR: SAMOA (+0.5)

•· NUMB3RS (+0.5)

CBS programs with lifts of half a rating point or more in adults 25-54:

•· THE MENTALIST (+1.2)

•· CSI (+1.2)

•· THE BIG BANG THEORY (+0.9)

•· CRIMINAL MINDS (+0.9)

•· NCIS (+0.8)

•· TWO AND A HALF MEN (+0.7)

•· CSI: MIAMI (+0.7)

•· NCIS: LOS ANGELES (+0.7)

•· THE GOOD WIFE (+0.7)

•· CSI: NY (+0.7)

•· SURVIVOR: SAMOA (+0.6)

•· HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (+0.6)

•· NUMB3RS (+0.6)

•· MEDIUM (+0.6)

•· GHOST WHISPERER (+0.5)

•· THE AMAZING RACE (+0.5)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on October 20, 2009, 02:31:12 PM: And these weekly numbers don't include all of the DVR Time-Shifting within one week. We can assume that it's less than one million, but signficant enough to make an impact on the demos. But clearly put TAR's audience well over 11 million so far this year.

(But I can't imagine what the DVR numbers were like Sunday.)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 20, 2009, 02:55:16 PM: Most of TAR DVR use is during its first night (Sunday night). And sites used to report the increase from its live viewing to its final live plus 7.

But this year most sites are reported just the gain from Live Same day (normal final numbers which do include that days DVR use) to final Live Plus 7.

Here is an example from last year. Episode 8.

Final numbers (live Same Day) 10.572 million viewers

Live viewers (people who watched only off the broadcast) 9.335 million

Live Plus 7 11.285 million viewers

Last year sites would have reported that DVR added 1.952 million viewers (we ranked 3rd overall in shows that had the highest percentage of DVR use during the same day).

Now this year all the data for that same episode would rate an increase of 713,000 because they are no longer separting the DVR use from the first day. Just the gains from days 2-7.

And so we are no longer going to see data for us on total viewers from DVR. But its not a bad thing. Frankly studiso earn nothing after the 3rd day. So they want as many people as possible watching during that first day.

And TAR doesn't do that well in that regard
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on October 20, 2009, 05:13:22 PM: Football messed up the schedule (I'm on the West Coast :yess:). Three Rivers needs to go.

I really hope that TAR improves. TWOP and EW posters aren't too pleased with the tasks lately...
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 20, 2009, 05:18:34 PM: I'm just reading my tvguide and they think the same for Three Rivers, its not drawing the younger audience they were hoping from The Amazing Race lead in. They give it a 50/50 chance.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 20, 2009, 10:43:57 PM: Yeah three rivers is toast. The only real question is if it will be cancelled before November sweeps.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 21, 2009, 01:36:06 AM: :hearts:

List of top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Oct. 12-18
By: The Associated Press
Associated Press
10/20/09 6:20 PM EDT Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Oct. 12-18. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

1. (1) "NCIS," CBS, 21.04 million viewers.

2. (2) NFL Sunday Night Football: Chicago at Atlanta, NBC, 18.17 million viewers.

3. (4) "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 16.79 million viewers.

4. (3) "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.38 million viewers.

5. (7) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 15.38 million viewers.

6. (7) "The Mentalist," CBS, 15.08 million viewers.

7. (15) "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.32 million viewers.

8. (12) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 14.17 million viewers.

9. (19) "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 13.96 million viewers.

10. (9) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13.92 million viewers.

11. (5) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 13.79 million viewers.

12. (12) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 13.68 million viewers.

13. (6) "House," Fox, 13.5 million viewers.

14. (15) "CSI: New York," CBS, 13.4 million viewers.

15. (12) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 13.27 million viewers.

16. (18) "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 13.07 million viewers.

17. (15) "The Good Wife," CBS, 12.98 million viewers.

18. (11) "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 12.0 million viewers.

19. (20) "Survivor: Samoa," CBS, 11.78 million viewers.

20. (24) "The Amazing Race 15," CBS, 10.92 million viewers.

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Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on October 21, 2009, 11:33:53 AM: It's shocking to see how CBS dominates the top 20 (though only ratings matter in the end). If only TAR could get it's rating to a 3.0 or higher, we'd be set (since CBS Sunday nights are so weak).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 21, 2009, 10:30:46 PM: Are adults 18-49 is currently over 3.0. Only one week this season has been below that.

Also at this same point we have higher ratings in viewers and demos then the last two cycles of the show (at the same time).

We were 28th this last week in adults 18-49. Not bad, considering CBS sunday as the oldest average aged viewer of not only any night on television, but any network on television.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on October 25, 2009, 06:17:02 PM: With no national NFL lead-in tonight along with Sunday Night Football involving the Giants-Arizona plus Game 6 of the American League Championship Series between the Yankees and Angels, I expect the ratings for tonight's episode to be quite low. The NY market will be split amongst Yanks and Giants plus ALCS ratings have been close to blockbuster for Fox.

If TAR gets above a 5 tonight, I'll be surprised.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 25, 2009, 06:37:20 PM: I also expect this to be one of the lowest ratings for us this season.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 26, 2009, 11:29:19 AM: HOLY CRAP

Fast Nationals (and without a major overrunthese should be close.

60 minutes 12.23 million viewers and a 2.1 in adults 18-49
TAR 10.98 (season high) in viewers 3.2 in adults 18-49
Three Rivers 7.90 million viewers 1.8 in adults 18-49
Cold Case 8.81 million viewers 1.7 in adults 18.49

TAR did absolutely great last night. Best performance of the season in total viewers and a very nice adult 18-49 performance. Both are up year to year from 9.7 million viewers and a 2.9 in adults 18-49.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on October 26, 2009, 11:53:59 AM: With heavy sports competition, that's a big surprise. Great news.

Next week, World Series Game 4 with another Fox NFL doubleheader.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 26, 2009, 12:15:46 PM: Impressive! Thanks mswood :yess:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Kogs on October 26, 2009, 12:34:49 PM: variety makes it look better

At CBS, "60 Minutes" (2.1/6 in 18-49, 12.2 million viewers overall) opened the night with below-average numbers opposite the Fox football overrun, but "Amazing Race" (3.2/8 in 18-49, 11.8 million viewers overall) built sharply on that lead-in among young adults. The net then fell off, though, with dramas "Three Rivers" (1.8/4 in 18-49, 7.9 million viewers overall) and "Cold Case" (1.7/4 in 18-49, 8.8 million viewers overall).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on October 26, 2009, 12:37:39 PM: Considering how everything after TAR on Sundays sorta sucks in the ratings, I think CBS should at least go back to 13 TAR legs per season (they might want to bring back the old race designers). TAR is still cheaper than the other dramas there.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 26, 2009, 12:39:41 PM: They really could can Three Rivers, I tuned out to watch the Yankees then recorded Cold Case. No matter woohooo TAR! CBS has to take note!! ......you know they really really made a mistake cancelling Without a Trace, I read that the summer reruns were getting high ratings so embarrassed CBS pulled it from the summer schedule, AIN'T that a kick in the head? okay rant off :hearts:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 26, 2009, 12:56:24 PM: Quote from: Caelestor on October 26, 2009, 12:37:39 PM
Considering how everything after TAR on Sundays sorta sucks in the ratings, I think CBS should at least go back to 13 TAR legs per season (they might want to bring back the old race designers). TAR is still cheaper than the other dramas there.
I honestly don't understand having a shorter season. Fr every season its been on Sunday its been the strongest demo performer (and thus the strongest money maker for CBS on Sunday). I mean seriously how expensive is the show to produce?
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on October 26, 2009, 01:13:15 PM: And considering Sunday Night Football is the most expensive primetime program for ads, CBS is charging at rate that seems to be a bargain in comparison!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on October 26, 2009, 09:53:24 PM: I've been busy today, but I did see the fast overnight numbers as posted at TFC (and CBS did not put out a press release today for some reason), but the fact that the numbers went from almost 11 million to almost 12 even without the final numbers that are used for the weekly list on Tuesday is a real surprise.

As to the CBS decision to cancel "Without A Trace," it wasn't based so much on ratings but the fear CBS has that all of their Bruckheimer shows have been on the network for a long time, and the fear that the audiences would start to decline dramatically and CBS would not have any younger series to build their audiences on.

There were two problems with that in my mind. First, while CBS has been lucky with Ghost Whisperer, The Mentalist and Flashpoint, they have commissioned some real turkeys as well -- Viva Laughlin in particular, and Three Rivers seems to be another turkey.

What I've seen in the numbers is that Three Rivers has lost up to 50 per cent of TAR's numbers every week; and while Cold Case is able to pull back almost half of those, it's in a bad time slot to keep the numbers they had the last two years following TAR directly.

I hope that at a minimum, CBS switches the time slots for Cold Case and Three Rivers, if not cancel Three Rivers outright. Oddly enough, Cold Case is another show that I like to watch, and I basically am doing other things during that hour that Three Rivers is on. It really does not interest me. As to Sunday Night Football, if the Dolphins were on, I might watch it, but I find it hard to watch 6 football games in one weekend. By the time I get to Sunday night, I really don't have the patience to watch another game. (And I do love football, but that sixth game is overkill. I much preferred it with the broadcast night game was on Monday night.)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: tigellinus on October 27, 2009, 07:10:35 AM: I thought the biggest issue with "Without a Trace" was the expense of the show.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on October 27, 2009, 09:09:19 AM: :hearts: :jumpy: Yay at TAR doing extremely well despite low expectations!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on October 27, 2009, 09:26:13 AM: It shows TAR has a core block of fans which is good. :tup:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 27, 2009, 09:55:51 AM: Quote from: tigellinus on October 27, 2009, 07:10:35 AM
I thought the biggest issue with "Without a Trace" was the expense of the show.
The cast was willing to take a paycut fwiw
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 27, 2009, 11:56:42 AM: Finals are out and we did even better in viewers and tied teh season high in demos. Great, great performance.

60 Minutes
- 12.473 million viewers
- 8.1/13 HH
- 2.1/6 A18-49

The Amazing Race
- 11.219 million viewers
- 6.4/10 HH
- 3.4/9 A18-49

Three Rivers
- 7.782 million viewers
- 4.9/7 HH
- 1.7/4 A18-49

Cold Case
- 9.297 million viewers
- 6.1/10 HH
- 1.8/5 A18-49
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on October 27, 2009, 12:27:15 PM: Every episode of TAR should be 2 legs long :jam:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on October 27, 2009, 02:40:11 PM: CBS’s HOUR OF COMEDY POWER

“Two and a Half Men” Is Television’s Number One Comedy in Viewers;

“The Big Bang Theory” Is Number One in Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54

“The Big Bang Theory” Hits Series Highs in Viewers, Adults 18-34 and

Adults 25-54

CBS Extends Its Season Long Winning Streak to Five Weeks

The combination of TWO AND A HALF MEN and THE BIG BANG THEORY has made CBS’s Monday (9:00-10:00 PM) block network television’s hour of comedy power.

TWO AND A HALF MEN remains television’s Number One comedy in viewers while the relocated THE BIG BANG THEORY has catapulted into the Number One spot among comedies in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.

Last week, THE BIG BANG THEORY delivered series highs in viewers (13.47m), adults 25-54 (6.3/14) and adults 18-34 (4.0/11) and matches best adults 18-49 delivery (5.3/13).

Compared to last season when it aired at 8:00 PM, THE BIG BANG THEORY is up +48% in viewers (14.16m from 9.56m), +49% in adults 18-49 (5.5 from 3.7) and +50% in adults 25-54 (6.6 from 4.4), according to most current ratings.

This season, THE BIG BANG THEORY has built on its TWO AND A HALF MEN lead-in by +10% in adults 18-49, +21% in adults 18-34 and +5% in adults 25-54.

TWO AND A HALF remains television’s top comedy in viewers, averaging 14.16 million, 5.0 in adults 18-49 (No. 2 only behind THE BIG BANG THEORY) and 6.3 in adults 25-54 (also No. 2).

Meanwhile, CBS extended its season-long winning streak in viewers to five weeks, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Oct. 25, week five of the 2009-2010 television season.

NCIS and NCIS: LOS ANGELES were the number one show and number one new show for the fifth consecutive week marking the first time the same network has had the same #1 show and #1 new show for the first five weeks of the season since fall 1994 (ABC’s “Home Improvement” and “Ellen”).

For the week in viewers: CBS (10.74m), FOX (10.28m), ABC (9.06m) and NBC (7.24m). Season-to-date, CBS is first in viewers (12.30m), ahead of ABC (9.96m), FOX (8.70m) and NBC (7.82m).

For the week in demographics, CBS was second in both adults 25-54 (3.6/09) and adults 18-49 (2.7/08). Season-to-date, CBS is first in adults 25-54 (4.3/11) and a close second in adults 18-49 (3.3/09).

For the week in households: CBS (6.8/11), FOX (6.3/10), ABC (5.9/10) and NBC (4.6/08). In households, season-to-date, CBS is first (7.7/13), +20% ahead of ABC (6.4/10), +48% ahead of FOX (5.2/08), +57% ahead of NBC (4.9/08) and +381% ahead of CW (1.6/03).

CBS’s Weekly Highlights:

– Tuesday, CBS was first in households (10.7/17), viewers (17.00m), adults 25-54 (5.3/13) for the fifth consecutive Tuesday and won adults 18-49 (3.8/10) for the fourth time in five weeks. CBS won every half-hour in viewers and adults 25-54 also for the fifth consecutive week.

? NCIS won its time slot in households (13.0/21), viewers (21.25m), adults 25-54 (6.5/17) and adults 18-49 (4.7/13) for the fifth consecutive week. This was NCIS’s best household delivery ever, matches best adults 25-54 delivery and for the third consecutive week this was NCIS’s second largest audience ever. Compared to last week, NCIS was up +1% in households (from 12.9/20), +2% in adults 25-54 (from 6.4/16), +4% in adults 18-49 (from 4.5/13) and added +210,000 viewers (from 21.04m, +1%). Every episode of

? NCIS: LOS ANGELES was first in households (10.2/16), viewers (16.48m) and adults 25-54 (5.5/13) – all for the fifth consecutive week – and second in adults 18-49 (3.9/10). NCIS: LOS ANGELES was up +5% in households (from 9.7/15), +15% in adults 25-54 (from 4.8/11), +11% in adults 18-49 (from 3.5/09) and added +1.10m viewers (from 15.38m, +7%) compared to last week.

? THE GOOD WIFE was first in households (8.8/15) and viewers (13.26m), for the fifth consecutive week, second behind FOX’s baseball coverage in both adults 25-54 (4.0/10) and adults 18-49 (2.8/08). Compared to last week, THE GOOD WIFE was up +1% in households (from 8.7/15), +5% in adults 25-54 (from 3.8/10), even in adults 18-49 and added +280,000 viewers (from 12.98m, +2%).

? CRIMINAL MINDS was first in households (9.0/14), viewers (14.27m), adults 25-54 (5.0/12) and adults 18-49 (3.8/10) for the fifth consecutive week. Compared to last week, CRIMINAL MINDS was up +6% in households (from 8.5/13), +4% in adults 25-54 (from 4.2/11), even in adults 18-49 and added +350,000 viewers (from 13.92m, +3%). CRIMINAL MINDS was the night’s #1 program in viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 for the fifth straight week.

? CSI: NY was first in households (8.4/14), viewers (13.01m), adults 25-54 (4.1/11) and adults 18-49 (3.0/08) for the fifth consecutive week.

? SURVIVOR: SAMOA was first in households (7.6/12), viewers (12.90m), adults 25-54 (5.0/13) and adults 18-49 (4.0/12). This was SURVIVOR’s best deliveries in households and viewers since February 19, 2009 and its best adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 performances since March 12, 2009. Compared to last week, SURVIVOR: SAMOA was up +9% in households (from 7.0/11), +11% in adults 25-54 (from 4.5/12), +14% in adults 18-49 (from 3.5/10) and added +1.12m viewers (from 11.78m, +10%).

? THE AMAZING RACE 15 (6.4/10, 11.22m) posted its best delivery in both viewers and adults 25-54 (4.3/10) since March 29, 2009, best adults 18-49 performance (3.4/09) since September 27, 2009 (the season 15 premiere).

CBS top programs of the week: #1 NCIS (an average of 21.25m viewers), #3 NCIS: LOS ANGELES (16.48m), #9 CRIMINAL MINDS (14.27m), #11 TWO AND A HALF MEN (14.07m), #13 THE BIG BANG THEORY (13.47m), #14 THE GOOD WIFE (13.26m), #15 CSI: MIAMI (13.16m), #16 CSI: NY (13.01m), #17 SURVIVOR: SAMOA (12.90m), #18 60 MINUTES (12.47m), #20 THE MENTALIST (R) (11.79m), #22 THE AMAZING RACE 15 (11.22m) and #26 CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (R) (10.14m).

Prime averages are based on the following hours of rated broadcasts in Week #5:

CBS – 22 hours

NBC – 21.5 hours

ABC – 22 hours

FOX – 19 hours

NATIONAL NIELSEN SUMMARY – PRIMETIME

Week #5 of 2009-10 Season (ending: 10/25/09)

2009-10 2008-09

HOUSEHOLDS

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 6.8 11 7.2 12 -6%

NBC 4.6 8 3.9 6 +18%

ABC 5.9 10 6.5 11 -9%

FOX 6.3 10 6.7 11 -6%

VIEWERS

(000) (000) Chg

CBS 10,741 11,333 -5%

NBC 7,244 6,118 +18%

ABC 9,063 9,985 -9%

FOX 10,284 10,884 -6%

A25-54

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 3.6 9 3.9 10 -8%

NBC 2.8 7 2.5 6 +12%

ABC 3.2 8 3.6 9 -11%

FOX 3.9 10 4.2 11 -7%

A18-49

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 2.7 8 3.0 8 -10%

NBC 2.5 7 2.2 6 +14%

ABC 2.6 7 3.0 8 -13%

FOX 3.5 10 3.6 10 -3%

A18-34

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 1.8 6 1.9 6 -5%

NBC 2.1 7 2.0 6 +5%

ABC 2.1 7 2.4 7 -13%

FOX 3.1 10 3.1 10 n.c.

NATIONAL NIELSEN SUMMARY – PRIMETIME

SEASON-TO-DATE RATINGS REPORT (09/21/09-10/25/09)

2009-10 2008-09

HOUSEHOLDS

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 7.7 13 7.5 12 +3%

NBC 4.9 8 4.9 8 n.c.

ABC 6.4 10 6.9 11 -7%

FOX 5.2 8 5.2 8 n.c.

VIEWERS

(000) (000) Chg

CBS 12,297 11,959 +3%

NBC 7,824 7,810 n.c.

ABC 9,958 10,642 -6%

FOX 8,700 8,439 +3%

A25-54

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 4.3 11 4.4 11 -2%

NBC 3.1 8 3.4 8 -9%

ABC 3.6 9 4.0 10 -10%

FOX 3.6 9 3.4 8 +6%

A18-49

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 3.3 9 3.4 9 -3%

NBC 2.7 8 3.0 8 -10%

ABC 3.0 8 3.3 9 -9%

FOX 3.4 9 3.1 8 +10%

A18-34

Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg

CBS 2.2 7 2.2 7 n.c.

NBC 2.4 7 2.7 8 -11%

ABC 2.4 7 2.7 8 -11%

FOX 3.3 10 2.8 8 +18%

National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: PER2+ for 10/19/2009 - 10/25/2009

Persons 2+ (000)

1. NCIS CBS 21253

2. Dancing With The Stars ABC 16824

3. NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 16481

4. FOX MLB ALCS Game 6 Angels vs Yankees (S) FOX 15481

5. The OT FOX 15066

6. Grey’s Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 15062

7. NBC Sunday Night Football Cardinals vs Giants NBC 14975

8. Dancing With The Stars Results ABC 14918

9. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 14268

10. Desperate Housewives ABC 14183

11. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 14072

12. FOX MLB ALCS Game 6-Pre Angels vs Yankees (S) FOX 13709

13. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 13472

14. THE GOOD WIFE CBS 13258

15. CSI: MIAMI CBS 13163

16. CSI: NY CBS 13008

17. SURVIVOR: SAMOA CBS 12899

18. 60 MINUTES CBS 12473

19. FOX MLB ALCS Game 5 Angels vs Yankees (S) FOX 11851

20. THE MENTALIST (R) CBS 11788

National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: A25-54 for 10/19/2009 - 10/25/2009

Adults 25-54 Rating

1. NCIS CBS 6.5

1. NBC Sunday Night Football Cardinals vs Giants NBC 6.5

3. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 6.3

4. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 6.0

5. The OT FOX 5.9

5. Grey’s Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 5.9

7. Desperate Housewives ABC 5.6

7. FOX MLB ALCS Game 6 Angels vs Yankees (S) FOX 5.6

9. NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 5.5

10. FOX MLB ALCS Game 6-Pre Angels vs Yankees (S) FOX 5.1

11. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 5.0

11. SURVIVOR: SAMOA CBS 5.0

13. CSI: MIAMI CBS 4.9

13. House FOX 4.9

15. Dancing With The Stars ABC 4.8

16. Biggest Loser 8 NBC 4.4

16. Dancing With The Stars Results ABC 4.4

18. AMAZING RACE 15 CBS 4.3

18. Office NBC 4.3

20. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick NBC 4.2

National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: A18-49 for 10/19/2009 - 10/25/2009

Adults 18-49 Rating

1. NBC Sunday Night Football Cardinals vs Giants NBC 5.9

2. The OT FOX 5.7

3. Grey’s Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 5.3

3. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 5.3

5. FOX MLB ALCS Game 6 Angels vs Yankees (S) FOX 5.2

6. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 4.8

7. NCIS CBS 4.7

7. Desperate Housewives ABC 4.7

7. FOX MLB ALCS Game 6-Pre Angels vs Yankees (S) FOX 4.7

10. House FOX 4.5

11. OFFICE NBC 4.4

12. SURVIVOR: SAMOA CBS 4.0

13. Biggest Loser 8 NBC 3.9

13. NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 3.9

13. CSI: MIAMI CBS 3.9

16. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 3.8

17. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick NBC 3.7

17. FOX MLB ALCS Game 5 Angels vs Yankees (S) FOX 3.7

17. Private Practice ABC 3.7

20. Dancing With The Stars ABC 3.6
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on October 27, 2009, 03:24:56 PM: Nice to see the weekly increases. :yess: While other shows are down, TAR has stayed solid over the past few years. :jam:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: River on October 27, 2009, 04:47:54 PM: Quote from: Caelestor on October 27, 2009, 03:24:56 PM
Nice to see the weekly increases. :yess: While other shows are down, TAR has stayed solid over the past few years. :jam:
Yes, I am so happy for TAR, if it stopped airing, I don't know what I would do...
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on October 27, 2009, 11:55:47 PM: We have a core group that watches every week. CBS should know what it has on its hands.

If only CBS Entertainment Nina Tassler knew. :res: :res: But she is a tough woman as we all know. :nut: :nut: :nut: :nut:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on October 28, 2009, 12:10:59 AM: How tough is she Ken? :jumpy:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on October 28, 2009, 09:18:11 AM: Well as we all know, when she saw how badly Jay Leno did, Nina celebrated by karate kicking her windows out in her office with her bare feet and never bled once.

And when NCIS: Los Angeles won Tuesday night, Nina went to a biker bar, punched out several members of the Hells Angels, took their choppers, rode to Malibu and flung the motorcycles into the ocean. :knuckles: :knuckles:

She's that tough.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on October 28, 2009, 10:57:48 AM: That's rather scary.. :lol:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on October 28, 2009, 11:28:10 AM: Nina's a tough woman. She has to be leading a network. :lol:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Kogs on October 28, 2009, 12:46:20 PM: Ken I bet she's getting a kick out of reading this thread. Hi nina :waves:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: walkingpneumonia on October 28, 2009, 01:35:05 PM: Quote from: TARAsia Fan on October 28, 2009, 09:18:11 AM
Well as we all know, when she saw how badly Jay Leno did, Nina celebrated by karate kicking her windows out in her office with her bare feet and never bled once.
She did bleed - but her blood is acid which she sprayed on any witnesses to instantly dissolve them.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 01, 2009, 05:38:43 PM: Just to brace people for the bad news come monday. Expect really low ratings for tonights episode. Not only do we have football opposite us on Fox, but the World Series on Fox (which so far is performing really well in the ratings (well not Saturday, but nothing does well on Saturday). Plus the normal competition on ABC.

So I expect low 9 million viewers and a 2.8 or lower in the demo.

But last week I expected bad results and lord we got season high in viewers and demos....
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 01, 2009, 08:43:53 PM: No Sunday Night Football game tonight, but Fox has that ultimate sports NFL doubleheader and World Series. I expect 18-49 to go to Fox big time.

Overall numbers might not be too bad.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 01, 2009, 08:53:38 PM: Damn, no night game tonight? That surprises me, I just assumed. But yeah I know Fox is pushing hard with GB and Favre and then for the World series.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 01, 2009, 08:54:35 PM: Usually, NFL does not have a game opposite the World Series.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 01, 2009, 08:55:41 PM: There's one other factor to throw in. Historically, TAR has done better when clocks are on standard time (and sunset is well before air time.) The time change was last night, and it was dark here by 6pm.

There's all sorts of viewing patterns that may come into play. Some folks don't rush to watch the World Series (if they're a couple of innings late they don't care, and TAR will be over by the third inning. So who knows?
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on November 01, 2009, 09:00:27 PM: Bad ratings would be a shame...this was a GREAT episode.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 01, 2009, 09:06:45 PM: Here's hoping that the game becomes more one sided before it hits 8pm tonight as that would also help the show.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 02, 2009, 11:26:57 AM: As expected, World Series Game 4 killed the competition getting American Idol numbers, averaging 20 million viewers last night, but Amazing Race held steady. mswood, I think this season is getting a core 10 million viewers each week.

And yeah, it appears Three Rivers is one foot in the grave. The show is pretty much toast.

From Marc Berman of Mediaweek.

Quote
Prime-Time Ratings: Sunday 11/01/09

-Total Viewers:
Fox: 21.12 million, ABC: 10.44, CBS: 9.94, NBC: 4.36

-Adults 18-49:
Fox: 7.4 rating/18 share, ABC: 3.4/ 8, CBS: 2.2/ 5, NBC: 1.6/ 4

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
Football Overrun (Fox), The OT (Fox), Baseball World Series, Game 4 (Fox), Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC), Desperate Housewives (ABC)

-Yesterday’s Losers:
Football Night in America (NBC), Three Rivers (CBS)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
Fox hit a ratings grand slam on this first Sunday in November care of Game 4 of The World Series. Second-place ABC was down, but not out, with its regularly scheduled combination of America’s Funniest Home Videos, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. Third in both categories was CBS, which has sprung a leak at 9 p.m., followed by a depressed, football-less NBC.

In an all sports night, Fox opened the evening with an approximate half-hour prime-time football overrun at a mammoth 30.57 million viewers and an 11.2 rating/30 share, followed by post game The OT at an also first-place 18.24 million viewers and a 6.5/17 in the demo at 7:30 p.m. Game four of The Baseball World Series averaged an estimated 20.02 million viewers and a 6.9/17 among adults 18-49 from 8-11 p.m., with the dominant half-hour breakdown as follows:

Baseball World Series (Fox)
8:00 p.m. – Viewers: 20.87 million, A18-49: 6.9/17
8:30 p.m. – Viewers: 23.61 million, A18-49: 7.9/19
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 19.68 million, A18-49: 6.8/16
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 19.82 million, A18-49: 6.9/16
10:00 p.m. – Viewers: 19.19 million, A18-49: 6.9/17
10:30 p.m. – Viewers: 16.97 million, A18-49: 6.2/17

Results for any live sporting event are, of course, approximate.

Over at ABC, its regularly scheduled rotation performed as follows:

ABC - Sunday
7:00 p.m. – America’s Funniest Home Videos
Viewers: 7.84 million (#3), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#3)

8:00 p.m. – Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Viewers: 10.75 million (#3), A18-49: 3.4/ 9 (#2)

9:00 p.m. – Desperate Housewives
Viewers: 13.80 million (#2), A18-49: 5.0/12 (#2)

10:00 p.m. – Brothers &n Sisters
Viewers: 9.37 million (#2), A18-49: 3.3/ 9 (#2)

Considering the competition was The World Series from 8 p.m. and beyond, this is another good Sunday for ABC. CBS, meanwhile, remained solid from 7-9 p.m., with 9-11 p.m. in need of fixing. Take a look:

CBS - Sunday
7:00 p.m. – 60 Minutes
Viewers: 12.32 million (#2), A18-49: 2.1/ 6 (#2)

8:00 p.m. – The Amazing Race
Viewers: 11.10 million (#2), A18-49: 3.2/ 8 (#3)

9:00 p.m. – Three Rivers
Viewers: 7.71 million (#3), A18-49: 1.7/ 4 (#4)

10:00 p.m. – Cold Case
Viewers: 8.64 million (#3), A18-49: 1.6/ 4 (#4)

NBC opened with Football Night in America (Viewers: #4, 2.57 million; A18-49: #4, 0.8/ 2), followed by repeat theatrical National Treasure at a last-place 4.59 million viewers and a 1.7/ 4 among adults 18-49 from 8-11 p.m.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat)

Source - http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/648104252?r=648104252#648104252
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 02, 2009, 11:54:28 AM: Good to see TAR hold up and break 11 million viewers.

November already! Filming for TAR 16 should be starting soon.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Coutzy on November 02, 2009, 12:00:38 PM: I'm surprised TAR did so well opposite the world series, although I suppose it didn't get really exciting until the 9th inning (Go Yankees btw!)

Hmm. One more post, where should I put it? :sneak
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on November 02, 2009, 01:22:02 PM: TAR was a stand out amongst CBS Sunday night only second to 60 Minutes which had 12.3 million viewers overall, not bad at all TAR!! :yess:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 02, 2009, 01:33:49 PM: TAR was definitely helped by no Sunday Night Football last night. But even so, 11 million viewers is quite good. 2nd overall to the World Series is where I expected, but the number of viewers was surprising. Final numbers should be out later today.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 02, 2009, 01:49:23 PM: We should also point out that the preliminary demo was stii above 3.0 even with the Woeld Series.

And TAR stayed ahead of that home makeover show.

Next week, CBS has the doubleheader, and FOX doesn't have baseball. And I expect CBS is be promoting the heck with the Flashback. A lot of old-time TAR viewers who haven't watched in recent seasons may well check that one out.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 02, 2009, 02:05:37 PM: That's a very good point. Lot of sampling next week.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 03, 2009, 11:53:05 AM: Finals are out, seasonhigh in viewers, and a very solid adults 18-49.

Here is CBS

60 Minutes
- 12.937 million viewers
- 8.4/13 HH
- 2.2/6 A18-49

The Amazing Race
- 11.220 million viewers
- 6.5/10 HH
- 3.3/8 A18-49

Three Rivers
- 7.702 million viewers
- 5.0/8 HH
- 1.6/4 A18-49

Cold Case
- 9.023 million viewers
- 5.9/10 HH
- 1.7/4 A18-49

Our season average

10.64 million viewers
3.26 18-49

Both are higher then the last two seasons at this same time
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 03, 2009, 01:14:45 PM: CBS' take on TAR's ratings this week:

Quote
THE AMAZING RACE 15 was second in households (6.5/10), viewers (11.22m), adults 25-54 (4.2/09) and tied for second in adults 18-49 (3.3/08, with ABC). This matched last week's season high viewer delivery.

Quote
#18 THE AMAZING RACE 15 (11.22m)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 03, 2009, 02:47:52 PM: I think Dubai leg 2 (specifically the detour) turned this season around and gave it some momentum. That's when the interteam drama began.

Good to see that we're top 20 in viewers!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Slowhatch on November 03, 2009, 08:55:46 PM: I don't know the math that connects ratings with ad rates, but CBS seems to be running a bargain basement (http://adage.com/article?article_id=139923) on Sunday nights.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 03, 2009, 09:03:50 PM: Based on 18-49 demos.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 03, 2009, 10:15:13 PM: Even though ad time for TAR is lower in cost than some of the other shows on Sunday nights, don't forget that CBS pays less for rights to air and production compared to those other shows. CBS is making more from TAR than Three Rivers or Cold Case, as scripted drama are more expensive to produce.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 03, 2009, 10:29:09 PM: Well technically we did have 10,000 more viewers this week then last, but still having are two most watched episodes be on nights without a sports overrun is simply awesome news (as we typically always do better with an overrun).

Also very, very good news is how much the adults 18-49 demo is doing. Especially without the help of the NFL.

Look at the rest of CBS lineup.

60 Minutes 2.1-2.2 for the last two weeks.

TAR 3.4 and 3.3

Three Rivers 1.7 and 1.6

Cold Case 1.9 and 1.7

That demo is what pays 85% of the ad rates that CBS gets. We increased 50% over 60 minutes and CBS lost 48% of that audience with Three Rivers. TAR is currently the only show on Sunday for CBS that is still competitive.

And why are we still not getting 13 full episodes a cycle? It does not make sense.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: 2old4tech on November 04, 2009, 08:30:15 AM: And don't forget the Travelocity product placement, and now the Discover Card infomercial(?) at episode's end. More $$$ for the network. (Don't see those on the scripted dramas either.)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on November 04, 2009, 08:47:20 AM: The Amazing Race just gets better. I've introduced at least more than 10 friends to watch the show and you can guess how many of them got hooked up and watched every episode ever since... :funny:

This is just... GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! :jumpy: :jumpy: :jumpy: :jumpy:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 09, 2009, 12:02:17 PM: The overnights are out and TAR was again helped by the NFL overrun.

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Sunday 11/08/09

HH/Rtg/Shr
NBC 11.2/18
CBS 8.4/13
ABC 5.9/ 9
Fox 3.9/ 6

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-Percent Change From the Comparable Year-Ago Period (Sunday, November 9, 2008):

NBC: +17, Fox: - 7, ABC: -17, CBS: -18

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Note: The fast affiliate results for Sunday will be posted at PIFeedback.com by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Sunday, November 8, 2009.

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-Yesterday’s Winners:

60 Minutes (CBS), Football Night in America, part three (NBC), Sunday Night Football (NBC), Desperate Housewives (ABC)

-Honorable Mention:
The Amazing Race (CBS)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):

NASCAR (ABC), Football Night in America, part one (NBC), Brothers (Fox), American Dad (Fox), Three Rivers (CBS)

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-Ratings Breakdown:

NBC stood well above the Sunday competition, with a healthy 33 percent metered market advantage over second-place CBS. Third overall was diluted ABC, followed by Fox, which always picks up steam among target adults 18-49.

Sunday Night Football on NBC, Dallas at Philadelphia, averaged a hefty 14.3 rating/23 share in the overnights from 8:30-11:45 p.m. ET, with the half-hour breakdown in primetime in follows:

Sunday Night Football (NBC)

8:30 p.m.: 13.7/21 (#1)

9:00 p.m.: 14.5/22 (#1)

9:30 p.m.: 15.1/23 (#1)

10:00 p.m.: 13.7/22 (#1)

10:30 p.m.: 14.4/24 (#1)

Earlier in the evening on NBC was Football Night in America as follows:

Football Night in America (NBC)

7:00 p.m. – part one: 3.6/ 6 (#2t)

7:30 p.m. – part two: 5.4/ 9 (#2)

8:00 p.m. – part three: 9.0/14 (#2)

As always, interest builds as the half-hours progress.

Since CBS’ primetime rotation started about 15 minutes late due to a football overall, all individual program results are approximate and broken out as follows:

CBS/Sunday

7:00 p.m. – NFL Football/60 Minutes: 14.6/24 (#1)

7:30 p.m. – 60 Minutes: 12.1/19 (#1)

8:00 p.m. – 60 Minutes/The Amazing Race: 10.1/16 (#1)

8:30 p.m. – The Amazing Race: 6.7/10 (#2)

9:00 p.m. – The Amazing Race/Three Rivers: 6.6/10 (#3)

9:30 p.m. – Three Rivers: 4.9/ 7 (#3)

10:00 p.m. – Three Rivers/Cold Case: 6.3/10 (#3)

10:30 p.m. – Cold Case: 5.7/10 (#3)

ABC opened the evening with minimal interest for a half-hour portion of NASCAR at a last-place 3.1/ 5 in the overnights at 7 p.m. Next was an abbreviated version of America’s Funniest Home Videos (#3: 3.5/ 6 at 7:30 p.m.), followed by aging Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (#3: 5.9/ 9), Desperate Housewives (#2: 8.2/13) and Brothers & Sisters (#3: 6.3/10), which held 76 percent of the second-half of Desperate Housewives (8.3/13 at 9:30 p.m.). Although Emmy loves to nominate Rachel Griffiths for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama on Brothers & Sisters, it is Calista Flockhart who is more than worthy of being recognized this season.

Last in the overnights was Fox’s combination of relocated Brothers (#2t, 3.6/ 6), a new candidate in Mr. TV’s annual listing of TV turkeys, a 7:30 p.m. version of American Dad (#4: 2.6/ 4), which tanked without the lead-in support of Family Guy, an 8 p.m. installment of Family Guy (#4: 4.4/ 7), Family Guy special Seth & Alex s Almost Live Comedy Show (#4: 4.0/ 6 at 8:30 p.m.), the regularly scheduled edition of Family (#4: 4.6/ 7) and a 9:30 p.m. airing of The Cleveland Show (#3: 3.9/ 6).

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source - http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/community/programming-insider/newsletters/e3ia59bfc00cf09b10b39de48e3db90c90e
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 10, 2009, 01:16:35 PM: Final numbers are out

60 Minutes (7:20pm)
- 16.853 million viewers
- 10.6/17 HH
- 3.8/10 A18-49

The Amazing Race (8:20pm)
- 11.617 million viewers
- 6.9/10 HH
- 3.5/8 A18-49

Three Rivers (9:20pm)
- 7.985 million viewers
- 5.2/8 HH
- 1.8/4 A18-49

Cold Case (10:20pm)
- 8.166 million viewers
- 5.4/10 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49

Thats a season high in viewers and adults 18-49.

Look at how significant Football is to CBS jumping from 2.1 - 2.2 to a 3.8 with Football.

TAR had a 3.4 - 3.3 to a 3,5 with Football.
This season football has helped TAR, but not as significantly as the lsat three years.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 10, 2009, 01:24:36 PM: That is not bad considering that NBC had an average of 21.9 million watching Sunday Night Football opposite TAR, so getting 11 and a half million viewers is very good. This season is resonating with viewers. I'm not sure why, but I'm not questioning it.

Considering the NFL is getting record ratings this season and sports opposite is TAR is doing well, it's nice to see the Race is holding its own.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 10, 2009, 02:47:52 PM: via press release:
CBS FIRST IN VIEWERS FOR THE SIXTH TIME IN SEVEN WEEKS
CBS Has the Top Four Scripted Programs
“The Mentalist” Tops “Private Practice” in Adults 18-49 for the First Time
Season Highs for “60 Minutes” and “The Amazing Race”
“The Big Bang Theory” is the No. 1 Comedy in Key Demos
“NCIS” Tops 20 Million Viewers Again; “NCIS: Los Angeles” Remains
No. 1 New Show
CBS placed first in viewers for the sixth time in seven weeks and second in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Nov. 8, week seven of the 2009-2010 television season.
CBS had the week’s top four scripted programs—NCIS, THE MENTALIST, CSI and NCIS: LOS ANGELES (the season’s top new program). THE MENTALIST topped “Private Practice” in adults 18-49 for the first time, THE BIG BANG THEORY was the No. 1 comedy in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 and 60 MINUTES and THE AMAZING RACE hit season highs in viewers and key demographics.
For the week in viewers: CBS (11.09m) led FOX (10.69m), ABC (9.25m) and NBC (8.23m). Season-to-date, CBS is first in viewers (12.08m), ahead of FOX (10.13m), ABC (10.04m) and NBC (7.71m).
For the week in key demographics, CBS was second in both adults 25-54 (3.8/10, -0.1 behind FOX) and adults 18-49 (2.9/08). Season-to-date, CBS is first in adults 25-54 (4.2/10) and second in adults 18-49 (3.2/09).
For the week in households: CBS (7.0/11) was ahead of FOX (6.5/10), ABC (5.9/10) and NBC (5.1/08). Season-to-date, CBS is first (7.5/12), ahead of ABC (6.4/10), FOX (6.1/10) and NBC (4.8/08).
CBS’s Weekly Highlights:
? THE BIG BANG THEORY (7.7/12, 12.73m) was tied for first in adults 25-54 (5.8/13, with FOX), second in adults 18-49 (4.7/11) and adults 18-34 (3.5/09). THE BIG BANG THEORY built on its TWO AND A HALF MEN lead-in by +4% in adults 25-54, +7% in adults 18-49 and +17% in adults 18-34. It was the week’s top comedy in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.
– Tuesday, CBS was first in households (10.2/16), viewers (16.07m), adults 25-54 (4.9/12) and adults 18-49 (3.5/10). CBS won Tuesday every week this season in households and viewers, six times in seven weeks in adults 25-54 and five times in seven weeks in adults 18-49.
? NCIS won its time slot in households (12.2/19), viewers (20.18m), was second in both adults 25-54 (5.9/14, -0.2 behind ABC) and adults 18-49 (4.3/11). CBS won this time period for the seventh consecutive week in households and viewers. Every first-run episode of NCIS this season delivered more than 20 million viewers. NCIS was the week’s top scripted series.
? NCIS: LOS ANGELES won its time slot in households (9.7/15), viewers (15.29m), adults 25-54 (4.9/11) and second in adults 18-49 (3.6/09, -0.2 behind NBC). NCIS is the week’s and the season’s No. 1 new program.
? THE GOOD WIFE was first in households (8.6/15), viewers (12.74m), adults 25-54 (4.0/11) and adults 18-49 (2.7/08). THE GOOD WIFE was first in this time period seventh consecutive week in households and viewers, first for the sixth time in seven weeks in adults 25-54 and first in adults 18-49 for the fifth time in seven weeks.
– Thursday, CBS was first in households (9.1/15), viewers (14.75m), adults 25-54 (4.8/12) and second in adults 18-49 (3.6/10, -0.1 behind ABC).
? SURVIVOR: SAMOA won its time period in households (7.3/11), viewers (12.44m), adults 25-54 (4.7/12) and adults 18-49 (3.7/10). Compared to last week, SURVIVOR: SAMOA was up +6% in households (from 6.9/11), +2% in adults 25-54 (from 4.6/11), even in adults 18-49 and added +250,000 viewers (from 12.19m, +2%).
? CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION won its time period in households (9.7/15), viewers (15.60m), finished second in adults 25-54 (4.8/11) and tied for second in adults 18-49 (3.5/09, with NBC). Compared to last week, CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION was up +5% in households (from 9.2/14), +2% in adults 25-54 (from 4.7/11), +3% in adults 18-49 (from 3.4/08) and added +360,000 viewers (from 15.24m, +2%).
? THE MENTALIST won its time period in households (10.4/18), viewers (16.21m), adults 25-54 (4.9/13) and adults 18-49 (3.6/10). THE MENTALIST posted its largest margin of victory this season over “Private Practice” with first run episodes in households (+4.4 rtg pts), viewers (+7.10m) and adults 25-54 (+1.1 rtg pts) and beat “Private Practice” in adults 18-49 for the first time ever (+0.2 rtg pts).
? CBS SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS (S) (9:00-11:24PM) posted a 2.5/05 with 4.04m viewers, 1.8/05 in adults 25-54, 1.8/06 in adults 18-49, 1.8/07 in adults 18-34, 2.6/07 in men 25-54, 2.5/08 in men 18-49 and 2.3/09 in men 18-34. From 9:00-11:00PM, CBS was first in both adults 18-34 and men 18-34, second in adults 25-54, adults 18-49, men 25-54 and men 18-49.
Compared to the 9:00-11:00PM season-to-date averages (CRIMETIME SATURDAY and 48 HOURS MYSTERY), CBS SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS was up +6% in adults 25-54 (from 1.7/05), +38% in adults 18-49 (from 1.3/04), +125% in adults 18-34 (from 0.8/03), +117% in men 25-54 (from 1.2/03), +178% in men 18-49 (from 0.9/03) and +283% in men 18-34 (from 0.6/02).
? 60 MINUTES (7:20-8:20PM) was first in households (10.6/17), viewers (16.85m), adults 25-54 (5.0/12) and second in adults 18-49 (3.8/10) in the 7:30-8:30PM hour. These were season high deliveries for 60 MINUTES in households, viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49.
? THE AMAZING RACE 15 (8:20-9:20PM) posted season highs in households (6.9/10), viewers (11.62m), adults 25-54 (4.4/10) and adults 18-49 (3.5/08).
CBS top programs of the week: #3 NCIS (an average of 20.18m viewers), #6 60 MINUTES (16.85m), #8 THE MENTALIST (16.21m), #9 CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (15.60m), #10 NCIS: LOS ANGELES (15.29m), #15 TWO AND A HALF MEN (13.51m), #16 THE GOOD WIFE (12.74m), #17 THE BIG BANG THEORY (12.73m), #18 CRIMINAL MINDS (12.55m), #19 CSI: MIAMI (12.52m), #20 SURVIVOR: SAMOA (12.44m), #21 CSI: NY (12.00m), #23 THE AMAZING RACE 15 (11.62m) and #29 HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (8.82m).
Prime averages are based on the following hours of rated broadcasts in Week #7:
CBS – 22 hours
NBC – 21.5 hours
ABC – 22 hours
FOX – 17 hours
NATIONAL NIELSEN SUMMARY – PRIMETIME
Week #7 of 2009-10 Season (ending: 11/08/09)
2009-10 2008-09
HOUSEHOLDS
Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg
CBS 7.0 11 7.0 11 n.c.
NBC 5.1 8 5.5 9 -7%
ABC 5.9 10 6.7 11 -12%
FOX 6.5 10 3.6 6 +81%
VIEWERS
(000) (000) Chg
CBS 11,087 11,051 n.c.
NBC 8,232 8,910 -8%
ABC 9,253 10,419 -11%
FOX 10,691 5,869 +82%
A25-54
Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg
CBS 3.8 10 3.9 9 -3%
NBC 3.2 8 3.7 9 -14%
ABC 3.3 8 3.9 9 -15%
FOX 3.9 10 2.5 6 +56%
A18-49
Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg
CBS 2.9 8 3.1 8 -6%
NBC 2.8 8 3.2 8 -13%
ABC 2.7 7 3.2 8 -16%
FOX 3.6 10 2.3 6 +57%
A18-34
Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg
CBS 2.1 6 2.1 6 n.c.
NBC 2.4 7 2.8 8 -14%
ABC 2.2 7 2.5 7 -12%
FOX 3.3 10 2.2 6 +50%
NATIONAL NIELSEN SUMMARY – PRIMETIME
SEASON-TO-DATE RATINGS REPORT (09/21/09-11/08/09)
2009-10 2008-09
HOUSEHOLDS
Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg
CBS 7.5 12 7.5 12 n.c.
NBC 4.8 8 5.0 8 -4%
ABC 6.4 10 6.9 11 -7%
FOX 6.1 10 5.1 8 +20%
VIEWERS
(000) (000) Chg
CBS 12,075 11,956 +1%
NBC 7,705 8,069 -5%
ABC 10,036 10,725 -6%
FOX 10,133 8,337 +22%
A25-54
Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg
CBS 4.2 10 4.3 10 -2%
NBC 3.1 8 3.4 8 -9%
ABC 3.7 9 4.0 10 -8%
FOX 4.0 10 3.4 8 +18%
A18-49
Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg
CBS 3.2 9 3.4 9 -6%
NBC 2.7 7 3.1 8 -13%
ABC 3.0 8 3.4 9 -12%
FOX 3.7 10 3.1 8 +19%
A18-34
Rtg Sh Rtg Sh Chg
CBS 2.2 7 2.2 6 n.c.
NBC 2.3 7 2.7 8 -15%
ABC 2.4 7 2.7 8 -11%
FOX 3.5 11 2.8 8 +25%
National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: PER2+ for 11/2/2009 - 11/8/2009
Persons 2+ (000)
1. FOX World Series Game 6 Phillies vs Yankees (S) FOX 22339
2. NBC Sunday Night Football Cowboys vs Eagles NBC 21883
3. NCIS CBS 20183
4. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick NBC 17263
5. FOX World Series Game 5 Phillies vs Yankees (S) FOX 17092
6. 60 MINUTES CBS 16853
7. Dancing With The Stars ABC 16688
8. THE MENTALIST CBS 16211
9. CSI CBS 15604
10. NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 15286
11. Dancing With The Stars Results ABC 15051
12. V (P) ABC 14300
13. Grey’s Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 13951
14. Desperate Housewives ABC 13795
15. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 13509
16. THE GOOD WIFE CBS 12743
17. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 12729
18. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 12546
19. CSI: MIAMI CBS 12518
20. SURVIVOR: SAMOA CBS 12439
National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: A2554 for 11/2/2009 - 11/8/2009
Adults 25-54 Rating
1. NBC Sunday Night Football Cowboys vs Eagles NBC 9.1
2. FOX World Series Game 6 Phillies vs Yankees (S) FOX 8.0
3. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick NBC 6.8
4. V (P) ABC 6.1
5. NCIS CBS 5.9
6. FOX World Series Game 5 Phillies vs Yankees (S) FOX 5.8
6. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 5.8
8. Grey’s Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 5.6
8. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 5.6
8. Desperate Housewives ABC 5.6
11. 60 MINUTES CBS 5.0
12. NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 4.9
12. THE MENTALIST CBS 4.9
14. Football Night America Part 3 NBC 4.8
14. CSI CBS 4.8
16. SURVIVOR: SAMOA CBS 4.7
17. CSI: MIAMI CBS 4.6
17. Dancing With The Stars ABC 4.6
19. AMAZING RACE 15 CBS 4.4
20. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 4.3
National Nielsen Rank for Demographic: A1849 for 11/2/2009 - 11/8/2009
Adults 18-49 Rating
1. NBC Sunday Night Football Cowboys vs Eagles NBC 8.5
2. FOX World Series Game 6 Phillies vs Yankees (S) FOX 7.4
3. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick NBC 6.1
4. FOX World Series Game 5 Phillies vs Yankees (S) FOX 5.3
5. V (P) ABC 5.2
6. Grey’s Anatomy-Thursday 9PM ABC 5.1
7. THE BIG BANG THEORY CBS 4.7
8. TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 4.4
8. Desperate Housewives ABC 4.4
8. Football Night America Part 3 NBC 4.4
11. NCIS CBS 4.3
12. Family Guy FOX 4.1
12. Office NBC 4.1
14. 60 MINUTES CBS 3.8
15. SURVIVOR: SAMOA CBS 3.7
15. Family Guy Special-11/8 8PM (S) FOX 3.7
17. CSI: MIAMI CBS 3.6
17. THE MENTALIST CBS 3.6
17. NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 3.6
20. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER CBS 3.5
20. CSI CBS 3.5
20. Biggest Loser 8 NBC 3.5
20. Modern Family ABC 3.5
20. AMAZING RACE 15 CBS 3.5
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 10, 2009, 04:06:18 PM: Quote from: TARAsia Fan on November 10, 2009, 01:24:36 PM
That is not bad considering that NBC had an average of 21.9 million watching Sunday Night Football opposite TAR, so getting 11 and a half million viewers is very good. This season is resonating with viewers. I'm not sure why, but I'm not questioning it.

Considering the NFL is getting record ratings this season and sports opposite is TAR is doing well, it's nice to see the Race is holding its own.

I think the different locations visited in this race is an important factor (not the common countries such as India/China/Thailand/France/Germany/Italy/Russia/Brazil).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Seattlite on November 10, 2009, 09:18:29 PM: CBS has to be noting the consistent performance this season and with the turmoil with the rest of the Sunday schedule, I think we will not be seeing them mess with a sure thing. If they open the purse strings to start outside LA all the better.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 11, 2009, 10:44:10 AM: CBS Corp. lost about a billion dollars (US) in their last fiscal year, and they were a network that was percieved as having done better than its three main competitors. This also explain what seems on the surface to be peculiar strategies by GE to spin off NBCU to a joint venture with Comcast Cable, and why Disney and News Corp. seems to be faster on the trigger with some new shows. (Still doesn't explain why Three Rivers is still on the air, but I suspect CBS is not convince they have a replacement that will do any better.)

I'm not expecting budget increases anytime soon. TAR is carrying its own weight revenue wise, as are many other CBS shows, but there are losses, and the CW is doing poorly as well.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Seattlite on November 11, 2009, 11:37:54 AM: CBS reported net income of $207.6 million compared with a loss of $12.46 billion in the third quarter of 2009, when the company wrote down the value of its TV and radio stations.

Revenue of $3.35 billion for the quarter was flat compared with the year-earlier period.

"There is no question that we are seeing strong evidence of a recovery right now," CBS Chief (etc.)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 11, 2009, 05:09:43 PM: So far this season networks have been slower (then usual) at canceling shows. Typically each network has killed at least one or two shows by the start of November.

But this year its been different. It is though that do to most of the shows that are new having standard 13 episode orders (and most are probably filming episode 12 right now), that it would be cost effective to let those 13 episodes air instead of producing and never airing them.

Finally some shows are getting canned this week (some terrible performers that reruns of other shows would easily outperform). But make no mistake Three Rivers is dead. If CBS wanted it to continue they would have already ordered addition episodes (they didn't). Think of it as a soft cancellation.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 11, 2009, 10:25:34 PM: Many of us in the eastern and central time zones are going to be facing yet another week where the single NFL game on local CBS stations will be the one late (4 pm) game.
http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/2009/10-CBS.html (http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/2009/10-CBS.html)

These areas include in no particular order: Florida (from Miami to Tampa), New Orleans, Atlanta, Charlotte, most of Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, and Minnesota, and small parts of Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on November 11, 2009, 11:24:34 PM: Quote from: theschnauzers on November 11, 2009, 10:25:34 PM
Many of us in the eastern and central time zones are going to be facing yet anither week where the single NFL game on local CBS stations will be the one]/i] late (4 pm) game.
http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/2009/10-CBS.html (http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/2009/10-CBS.html)

These areas include in no particular order: Florida (from Miami to Tampa), New Orleans, Atlanta, Charlotte, most of Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, and Minnesota, and small parts of Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas.

About time peach suffered a little :lol:! One game though the race should have at the least a 2 minute delay and most who knows?
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 12, 2009, 12:30:44 AM: Keep in mind that most TV series have 22-25 episode seasons, so TAR's (hopefully) 24 isn't too bad.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on November 12, 2009, 12:43:22 AM: No suffering here!! This week I am PRAYING for a late start, or I won't see it on time! :yess:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 12, 2009, 12:50:25 PM: Number of episodes for a full TV season. The norm these days appears to be about 22 or 23; but many scripted shows are adopting 13 episodes a year as is the case with some cable series (or even the BBC) or even 10 episodes a year based on the cable model. New series are usually started with 9 episodes, and then get 4 more, and then get 9 beyond that depending on the ratings performance.

Many current scripted shows to only air after the NFL season ends are 13. The only scripted series I can think of that has 24 episodes is "24," which is due to that series unique semi-real time storytelling approach. I doubt a new series could get such an arrangement now.

The best way to see this is to look at a show's listings page at The Futon Critic. I keep track of my favorite shows at that site, and what I've described is based on what I've found in the past few years using TFC.

In all honesty, I'm expecting TAR 16 will likely be 11 episodes and 11 legs, not as a punishment, but because of the problems with starting a TAR 16 airing at any point in February, or even the Oscars on March 7. However, TAR 14 did air against the Oscars -- ratings were that season's worst, IIRC, and I suspect CBS will not want to waste a TAR episode like that again, especially since the numbers for the later half of TAR 14, and so far in TAR 15 have beeb close to or above 11 million; and TAR is now less than a million viewers behind Survivor. I can remember the days when TAR's audience was half or less of Survivor's.

I haven't yet figured out which week CBS will want the air the probable Cold Case series finale in May, since it looks as if this will be CC's last season, baring a ratings miracle once Three Rivers is out of the way.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 12, 2009, 05:36:57 PM: Quote from: theschnauzers on November 12, 2009, 12:50:25 PM
In all honesty, I'm expecting TAR 16 will likely be 11 episodes and 11 legs, not as a punishment, but because of the problems with starting a TAR 16 airing at any point in February, or even the Oscars on March 7. However, TAR 14 did air against the Olympics -- ratings were that season's worst, IIRC, and I suspect CBS will not want to waste a TAR episode like that again, especially since the numbers for the later half of TAR 14, and so far in TAR 15 have beeb close to or above 11 million; and TAR is now less than a million viewers behind Survivor. I can remember the days when TAR's audience was half or less of Survivor's.

I haven't yet figured out which week CBS will want the air the probable Cold Case series finale in May, since it looks as if this will be CC's last season, baring a ratings miracle once Three Rivers is out of the way.

There were no Olympics this year. You mean the Oscars? I do agree a March 14 start date is highly likely, due to the Olympics and the March 7 Oscars. Otherwise, CBS will take their chances with a 2/14 start date, and skip 2/28 and/or 3/7.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Seattlite on November 12, 2009, 06:49:46 PM: I would think that CBS will make sure that the Survivor finale has a Sunday sweeps slot and maybe TAR will overshoot the sweeps this year. It is sure sounding crowded.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 12, 2009, 07:51:34 PM: I meant to say "the Oscars" -- post corrected.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 16, 2009, 11:05:40 AM: Preliminary Ratings:
TAR had the least ratings in its hour (though viewer wise is still pretty good). ABC was surprisingly good, up double digits from last week. Still beats the rest of CBS' Sunday line-up :jam:

8:00
CBS   Amazing Race   3.2   8   12.24
8:30
CBS   Amazing Race   3.2   8   11.049
Avg
CBS   Amazing Race 3.2 8 11.64
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 16, 2009, 11:12:14 AM: The site I'm looking at doesn't allow linking or qouting its report of fast national numbers, and there's nothing yet from CBS about last night's fast national preliminary numbers, but let's just say that the total audience was around last week's total audience of 11.6 million, and the preliminary demo stayed above 3, even though CBS had the lowest network averges for the night, FOX had a significant NFL overrun, and NBC had a competitve NFL game.

I'm starting to think this season's overall average audience is going to end up over 11 million. While the first four or five eps averaged 10.5 million, it's been over 11 million since then, and now its staying over 11.5 million.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 16, 2009, 09:02:38 PM: This just came out earlier this evening.

CBS is trying an experiment this coming Sunday and is going to swap the time slots for Cold Case and Three Rivers. So CC airs at 9:00pm ET next Sunday. For now, it's a one week experiment.

The following Sunday, November 29th, both are pre-empted for a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie.

I guess CBS is trying to see if TR can be saved; and they're trying to test a theory that more TAR viewers would stick around for Cold Case. I'm one of them.

The Futon Critic (link) (http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=8387)
The Live Feed (link) (http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/11/cbs-to-swap-three-rivers-cold-case-.html)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 16, 2009, 10:07:24 PM: It will be difficult for the season average to get over 11 million (which would be freaking awesome as very view seasons of TAR have managed that task.

Most of the sites haven't really mentioned that yes parts of the country did in fact have an overrun, and as such we should get some shifting in the results from the Fast Nationals, lately thats all been good so we shall see.

And its about damn time that CBS switched its 9pm and 10 pm shows.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 16, 2009, 10:32:08 PM: Currently, the season average is at 10.87 million viewers. Ratings have been steadily increasing since the HCMC leg.

To obtain a 11 million viewer average, the last 3 legs combined must have 34.13 million viewers. If TAR holds steady at 11.5ish, then it's actually possible.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 16, 2009, 11:45:40 PM: Next week, the Eastern half does have an overrun. Not sure if it will help. The last NFL doubleheader game CBS had actually was down from the year before so I'm a bit concerned about this Sunday's numbers. There's a weak Sunday Night Football game between Chicago and Philadelphia on NBC, but those are huge markets and they might take away from TAR.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 16, 2009, 11:58:12 PM: But one of the late afternoon CBS games is the Jets versus the Patriots and most of the eastern half of the US is getting that game; the western half is getting San Diego and Denver (inclluding stations that still take the east coast feed; and a few markets are getting the third game. That Jets-Pats games is going to appeal to a lot of the east coast feed viewers, and I suspect that will help CBS, unless that game somehow turns into a blow out. (Not likely.) So there's a potential for a huge audience for the overrun.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 17, 2009, 12:05:29 AM: I forgot Jets-Pats was moved to the late spot. Good catch by you! :)

Yeah, then with New York and Boston in the mix, the ratings should help. You're right. :tup:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 17, 2009, 12:06:04 AM: Technically we have a 10.814 (when using data from 3 decimal points) for final numbers.

But, and I stress this, that truly isn't accurate (and while it is the official number) I actually use the ratings for every episode no matter when they air).

For example any airing outside the official 8pm start time (not counting sports overruns) isn't considered, episodes that air on the day off or before Christmas and New Years are excluded which did effect the official season average of season 12, for example), and TAR (or CBS) for some reason averages the ratings of a two hour episode for its' 8pm hour (and others shows don't unless they are filmed and produced as a two hour event). This has effected several seasons.

And I hate it.

So for this season the official ratings will only count episodes 1 and 2 as one episode. Which I think is bull****. Now I understand when they did for seasons 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 as each of those seasons featured a two hour opener that was all one episode edited to fill two hours. Thus one episode.

This season we had two episodes that were produce as two episodes that due to a schedule conflict were aired as a two hour block, and as such in my mind to accurately reflect the ratings should count as two episodes.

Using that criteria we are currently averaging in finals (as this will change about noon tomorrow) a 10.673.

I do agree that it is possible for us to end at or over 11 million, but it is something that has been very rare for the show.

Season averages (based on all episodes aired)

Season 7: 12.559
Season 6: 11.337
Season 12: 11.198
Season 10: 11.148

Those four are the only seasons to exceed 11 million viewers

Season 5: 10.726
Season 8: 10.670
Season 13: 10.526
Season 14: 10.412
Season 2: 10.212
Season 11: 9.713
Season 1: 9.506
Season 3: 9.063
Season 9: 8.852
Season 4: 8.293 (missing data on one episode so this is the least accurate number I have).

What is interesting is that on average shows typically lose about 5% in viewers. So we are really, really doing compared to the average tv show, far better as a long term program.

Of course the downside of this is that Demo's and not viewers are the key to a show. ANd since moving to Sunday's are demo suck. In fact to look at a very interesting comparison. TAR 9 had very low ratings (most likely due to three factors- Family Edition pissing off viewers, its later time start, and then its two different day and time changes mid season. Yet only Season 10, and season 12 have barely beat it in the demos, and all since have far, far larger audiences. This is due to CBS Sunday having the oldest audience (average age) of any night (well I don't know about Saturdays since no one programs originals there anymore) of the week and out of any network.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on November 17, 2009, 12:22:42 AM: Amazing stats mswood, you know your stuff that's for sure, very impressive :jam:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 17, 2009, 12:35:34 AM: I love talking tv with mswood! :tup: :tup: :tup: ;) ;)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 17, 2009, 12:48:31 AM: Ah, but reality shows are in general cheaper (not sure how much travelling around the world costs though) and thus are not subject to the typical demo rules.

So, it's best to compare this relatively.

Not only is TAR a star compared to the rest of Sunday, but it has also gained in the demo since TAR 14. TAR 15 is consistently getting around 3.2s, which is a very good sign.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on November 17, 2009, 07:04:53 AM: Quote from: Caelestor on November 17, 2009, 12:48:31 AM
Ah, but reality shows are in general cheaper (not sure how much travelling around the world costs though) and thus are not subject to the typical demo rules.

So, it's best to compare this relatively.

Not only is TAR a star compared to the rest of Sunday, but it has also gained in the demo since TAR 14. TAR 15 is consistently getting around 3.2s, which is a very good sign.

With the maintaining of audiences/viewers and 6.. or is it 7 emmy awards consecutive wins (they won so many and i lost count!).. i'm looking forward to TAR maintaining 20 seasons like Survivor.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 17, 2009, 02:37:13 PM: Neilsen must be having computer problems somewhere. Neither the overnights for Monday, nor the weekly numbers seem to be availoable. (I've checked several different sources and none of them have either posted in any form so far today.)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 17, 2009, 02:52:50 PM: Ratings are down until 4 p.m. Power outage at Nielsen.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 17, 2009, 06:49:52 PM: Since the beginning of the current season, Nielsen has been releasing live plus seven day viewer data a couple of weeks after the weekly live plus same day numbers come out.

While CBS has indicated that TAR has been in the Top 10 of its shows to increase in the 18-45 or 25-56 demo in some of those weeks, it hasn't had increases in total viewers of 1 million or more so TAR hasn't shown up in the CBS release on total viewers in prior weeks.

I just found the most recent numbers (for week 6 of the season) on Yahoo from Mediaweek. And it does show what TAR did that week. Yes, the total increase is still less than a million total viewers. Butlook what it does show as one of the top 30 shows in DVR/plus seven days (link) (http://news.yahoo.com/s/mediaweek/20091117/ad_bpimw/ratingsboxwhatshotwhatsnot):

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The Amazing Race (CBS): 11.21 to 12.09 million (+882,000) – 7.9 percent

If this has been what's been going on since the beginning of the season, then the total viewer numbers may have been over 11 million, and edging towards 12 million.

As an aside, Cold Case gained 1.11 million viewers (from 9.01 to 10.12 million) that week; Three Rivers isn't even mentioned.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 17, 2009, 10:00:32 PM: For the last three years ratings sites, used to use DVR to compare live viewers to live plus seven.

This year almost everyone is comparing live same day to live plus 7.

This really limits what type of data we see for TAR.

As reality shows in general have a much higher use of DVR on the night that they air then scripted television shows.

And since no one reports live numbers for anything (and haven't for really at least a decade), I certainly understand the switch.

For example any time you see Fast Nationals or Final numbers reported, those are actually live same day (any showing up to a starting time of 2am that night).

Last year (in the fall cycle) TAR had the 2nd highest percentage of DVR use during the day it aired of all shows that air on network television.

So most of are DVR use is already included in the Fast National and Final numbers.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 17, 2009, 11:52:05 PM: mswood, that part I was already aware of; what I'm referring to is the increase for the live plus 7 day numbers. There's been very little actual information on the "plus seven" aspect for TAR, but knowing that it boosts the actual number of viewers this season significantly is good to know. (I know of at least one viewer who I got hooked on TAR in season 9, and this fall, he recorded TAR to watch on Monday so he could watch Mad Men live.)

I wouldn't undervalue those additional 900,000 viewers TAR is getting by time shifting. I'll still take every viewer I can get, because it amplifies the long term growth in TAR's audience even as the networks mostly declince in total viewers, and DVR penetration rises by several per cent a year.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 18, 2009, 12:53:24 PM: Finals are finally out, we lost a couple viewers but had a very nice demo performance.

60 Minutes
- 13.077 million viewers
- 8.4/14 HH
- 2.2/6 A18-49

The Amazing Race
- 11.388 million viewers
- 6.6/10 HH
- 3.4/8 A18-49

Three Rivers
- 8.187 million viewers
- 5.1/8 HH
- 1.8/4 A18-49

Cold Case
- 9.594 million viewers
- 6.1/10 HH
- 2.1/6 A18-49

Season average now 10.832 million viewers and a 3.3 in adults 18-49.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 18, 2009, 02:34:52 PM: Cold Case's demo improved 16% over Three Rivers'. Good thing CBS is going to swap them next week.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 18, 2009, 04:57:37 PM: The one piece of information supplied by CBS:

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#24 THE AMAZING RACE 15 (11.39m).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 19, 2009, 09:55:51 AM: Also we tied for 26th in the demo.

And got a 4.3 in adults 25-54. We managed to beat 60 minutes in both demos by 1.2.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on November 19, 2009, 10:16:39 AM: Quote
The Amazing Race
- 11.388 million viewers
- 6.6/10 HH
- 3.4/8 A18-49

:colors Definitely good numbers there!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: beaubd07 on November 19, 2009, 11:17:58 PM: Hello everyone I am new to this site....but I LOVE The Amazing Race!

From what I have read it seems like this season of TAR is doing pretty well with the ratings! :yess:
But I have a few questions about the ratings system, just because I have never looked into this kind of stuff before. What does the households number mean? Like what is that a judge of? Also the demo group I understand they break it into many different demographics and the one you guys seem to follow is 18-49, but also what is this number? Again what does that judge? and How come for some shows the "denominator" is different? Like for TAR its around 3/8 but for 60 minutes it is out of six I believe? If you guys could help out that would be awesome!!
Thanks!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on November 19, 2009, 11:19:30 PM: :welcome: to RFF beaubd07! I'll let the experts tackle that one, :lol:!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 20, 2009, 01:20:48 PM: I've "borrowed" this explanation from the excellent discussion provided by The Futon Critic at its website page on the daily ratings for the previous seven days.

"Demo" is shorthand for "demographic," not "demonstration," although that misunderstanding isn't hard to understand as "demo" is often used that way in other contexts.

Except for the total number of viewers, and the # number, which is a placement for the time a show airs, the night a show airs, or the week a show airs, depending on context, the numbers with decimals are percentages of the total household, viewers, or the different demographics groups. 18-49 age group, followed by the 25-54 age group are the mose important ones for advertisers.

Quote
So what does all this crap mean? Here's a quick guide to understanding these numbers:
"Grey's Anatomy" (15.36 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 6.0, #1)
15.36    =    "Grey's" total viewers, which indicates 15.36 million viewers in the U.S. watched this broadcast
#2    =    "Grey's" total viewers ranking for that night (T denotes a tie)
6.0    =    "Grey's" adults 18-49 rating, which indicates 6.0% of all adults 18-49 in the U.S. watched this broadcast
#1    =    "Grey's" adults 18-49 ranking for that night (T denotes a tie)
Some other stuff to keep in mind:
· For the 2009-10 season, there are an estimated 292,000,000 people (age 2 and above) in the U.S.
· For the 2009-10 season, there are an estimated 132,000,000 adults between the ages of 18 and 49 in the U.S. so 1% of that equals 1,320,000 people.

The one thing that isn't clear from that explanation is the role "time shifting" and DVRs are playing in ratings these days. "Time shifting" refers to the practice of having a show recording for viewing later. Prior to the current 2009-2010 year, Nielsen provided an estimate of the live audience only, using the 50 largest markets in the US for preliminary numbers provided overnight.

Final live numbers were provided on Tuesdays (usually) for the preceding Monday to Sunday week which included all sources used by Nielsen.

In recent years, as the number of households with DVRs grew, Nielsen began to track the viewers who "time shifted" their viewing using either cable or satellite or by viewers who used TiVo or other means to record shows. Nielsen would track those who replayed a show on the same night, and within seven days. By last year, 26% of all households had DVRs. This year, its 33% of all households.

This prompted Nielsen to make a change. Starting with the 2009-2010 television year, the same night time-shifted viewing was included with the numbers for live viewing for both overnight and weekly ratings reports. The "plus seven (days)" =time shifted viewing is still tracked separately and is currently available three weeks later.

I'm sure mswood and others will have other elements to add, but I think the above is at least a start.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 23, 2009, 11:58:46 AM: Preliminary numbers are out, courtesy of Futon Critic. Despite all the competition, we did shockingly well. (Who doesn't love Prague? :yess:)

EDIT: Can't post the prelim numbers :'( from TFC. You can find them at tvbythenumbers as well.

Assuming these numbers hold, the season average is at 10.94 million viewers and a 3.2 in 18-49. :jam:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 23, 2009, 12:19:49 PM: Caelestor, TFC has an agreement with Nielsen that their report of overnight numbers cannot be quoted or reproduced anywhere else. There are media sources that don't have to operate under that restriction (e,g., CBS itself is one, I believe Mediaweek is another). And of course, there was a half=hour overrun for the east coast feed that isn't the case for the Pacific time zone, and the final numbers that come out Tuesday will deal better with the half-hour time slot variance between the two feeds. (Prelimn numbers don't always adjust for this factor.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 23, 2009, 12:29:24 PM: The average between the 8:30 and the 9:00 hour is 11.78 million with a 3.45 in adults 18-49.

From other sources.

Now because the west Coast aired its normal 8-9pm these numbers could change (and hopefully up just slight) but still very good results.

What is surprisng is that with 60 minutes getting the maximum benefit of the sports overrun, they did (on paper marginally worse) in the 18-49 (3.4 for both half hours).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 23, 2009, 01:00:12 PM: From zap2it:

TV ratings: NFL squeezes out Sunday win over AMAs

By Rick Porter

November 23, 2009 9:04 AM

NBC's Sunday NFL game pulled in somewhat lower ratings than usual, but they were still big enough to edge CBS and ABC -- which got the biggest audience for the American Music Awards in seven years -- for the night's top spot.

NBC averaged 12.94 million viewers and an 8.0 rating/13 share in households on Sunday, edging CBS (12.69 million, 7.8/12) and ABC (12.14 million, 7.3/12) for the lead. (All three networks had live sports for at least a small part of the night, so their numbers may change a little in the final nationals.) FOX came in a fairly distant fourth with 5.5 million viewers and a 3.2/5.

In the adults 18-49 demographic, NBC's 4.8 rating beat out ABC's 4.5. CBS took third with a 3.2, while FOX came in at 2.7.

Sunday's hourly results:

7 p.m.

CBS: NFL overrun/"60 Minutes" (18.4 million viewers, 11.2/19 households)
NBC: "Football Night in America" (7.9 million, 4.9/8)
ABC: NASCAR Ford 400/"America's Funniest Home Videos" (6.1 million, 3.6/6)
FOX: "Brothers" (2.6 million, 1.7/3)/"The Simpsons" rerun (4 million, 2.4/4)

18-49 leader: NFL/"60 Minutes" (4.7)

8 p.m.

NBC: "Sunday Night Football" - Eagles-Bears (14.2 million, 8.5/13)
CBS: "60 Minutes"/"The Amazing Race" (13.5 million, 7.9/12)
ABC: 2009 American Music Awards (12.8 million, 7.8/12)
FOX: "The Simpsons" (7 million, 3.8/6)/"The Cleveland Show" (6.5 million, 3.7/6)

18-49 leader: "Sunday Night Football" (5.1)

9 p.m.

ABC: American Music Awards (15.6 million, 9.3/14)
NBC: "Sunday Night Football" (15.5 million, 9.5/14)
CBS: "The Amazing Race"/"Cold Case" (10.3 million, 6.2/10)
FOX: "Family Guy" (7.4 million, 4.2/6)/"American Dad" (5.5 million, 3.2/5)

18-49 leader: American Music Awards (6.1)

10 p.m.

NBC: "Sunday Night Football" (14.3 million, 9.1/15)
ABC: American Music Awards (14.1 million, 8.7/15)
CBS: "Cold Case"/"Three Rivers" (8.5 million, 5.7/9)

18-49 leader: American Music Awards (5.7)

Ratings information includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are preliminary and subject to change, especially in the case of live telecasts.

Source - http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/11/tv-ratings-nfl-squeezes-out-sunday-win-over-amas.html
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 23, 2009, 02:38:31 PM: I should have noted earlier that when TFC reprints a network press release, quoting from that is OK since the information comes from the network, and not directly from Nielsen.

Why TFC has this burden and not other internet sources, I really haven't been able to figure out. The FTC restriction even prevents them from archiving the information for more than seven days, or having graphics.

Anyhow, the ratings continue to rise as we proceed further into the season, which is interesting. If last night's preliminary numbers hold up in the weekly report, then a seasonal average over 11 million becomes a real prospect. And the demo number is healthy.

Cold Case did better back in its old time slot, and folks still fled from Three Rivers. SInce both shows are pre-emoted next week, and there were no promos for either show's next episode in two weeks, I suspect CBS may be making a decision to swap the time slots before December 6th.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 23, 2009, 03:07:07 PM: I would assume that they were hit the hardest, by Nielsen but they were the main ratings player when Nielsen starting coming down on people.

Now they have several sources, only pifeedback/mediaweek is able to keep records for more then a week (as tvbythenumbers also limits their material to one (or maybe two weeks). But Sitcomsonline also keeps archives for the same amount of time as pifeedback and they haven't gotten into any trouble.

But between Berman and Travis (who posts finals) you can get the main ratings info. Overnights, Fast Nationals, Finals and demos in great details (though you might wait for a long time on detailed demo breakdowns, they just got finished with the half hour breakdown of cycle 14 not to long ago). About the only thing they don't provide much info on is DVR use.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 24, 2009, 01:29:30 PM: Finals are out and we KICKED ASS!!!

60 Minutes (7:30pm)
- 15.978 million viewers
- 9.9/16 HH
- 3.3/9 A18-49

The Amazing Race (8:30pm)
- 12.191 million viewers
- 6.9/11 HH
- 3.7/9 A18-49 ( )

Cold Case (9:30pm)
- 9.547 million viewers
- 6.1/10 HH
- 2.1/5 A18-49

Three Rivers (10:30pm)
- 7.888 million viewers
- 5.3/10 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49

Season high in viewers and look at that Demo. That is awesome.

Season average now at 10.968 million viewers.

Demo average at 3.34 for 18-49
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on November 24, 2009, 04:28:33 PM: Fantastic news for TAR :jumpy: :wohoo:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on November 24, 2009, 04:29:48 PM: Thanks for sharing those, good news indeed!! May the franchise live long!! :yess:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 24, 2009, 05:27:47 PM: The CBS press release was a bit odd. It mentions TAR as a big contributor to CBS projecting a win among all viewers in the November sweeps:

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CBS's November win was led by NCIS (the No. 1 series of the month), THE MENTALIST, the Monday comedies, freshman series NCIS: LOS ANGELES and THE GOOD WIFE, the continued strong showings for SURVIVOR and THE AMAZING RACE and the CSI trilogy which significantly boosted all three editions, including the largest audience for CSI since last March.

But it doesn't even mention TAR's ratings performance this week other than in the paragraph showing how CBS shows placed in the Top 25:

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CBS top programs of the week: #1 NCIS (an average of 20.34m viewers), #5 60 MINUTES (15.98m), #6 THE MENTALIST (15.85m), #7 CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (14.91m), #8 NCIS: LOS ANGELES (14.87m), #11 CRIMINAL MINDS (13.70m), #12 TWO AND A HALF MEN (13.69m), #13 CSI: NY (13.62m), #14 CSI: MIAMI (13.26m), #15 THE BIG BANG THEORY (13.23m), #17 THE GOOD WIFE (12.70m), #19 SURVIVOR: SAMOA (12.33m), #20 THE AMAZING RACE 15 (12.19m) and #25 COLD CASE (9.55m).

TAR came within 140,000 viewers of Survivor. And Cold Case did benefit from the time swap as it returned to a Top 25 ranking. (I also noticed that while CBS released a episode description for Cold Case on December 13th, nothing was released today for Three Rivers. I wonder if a hammer is about to fall.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 24, 2009, 08:54:40 PM: Nielsen had trouble with its weekly numbers provided to its vendors, as such CBS probably didn't want to sift through all the info themselves to create all the data points for their press release.

What we do know is that by viewer we were ranked 20th.

By demo we were 18th (When looking just at the 3.7 we are tied in 12th place with 6 other shows. But out of those shows they have actual viewer numbers in that demo. They range from 4.917 million for Criminal Minds down to 4.815 TAR. So it looks like we just barely got to a 3.7. No matter its a great result for the show.

Right now (how they officially do ratings we are over 11 million) they way I count each episode we are very, very close to it. And most likely will end the season with an average of just over 11 million.

When you consider that so much of our audience is watching on DVR's seasons 10, 12 and now 15 in real viewers have more then all but season 7. Season 6 had higher total viewers, live same day, but not live plus seven.

And we came closer then we have ever came to tying survivor.

Who would imagine that a show that was getting nearly 30 million viewers when it started would now be almost even with a show that's first year averaged a mere 9.5 million viewers.

It boggles the mind. I am also very curious (with all the Russell Hype, God I hate him) if the show has actually performed worse or better this year then last year. I know are show has.

Oh and here is some comparisons. Networks don't really consider how we did versus the Spring cycle (they know spring performs typically lower for all tv shows). They mainly look at two factors. Biggest one is year to year, 2nd largest is how we do week to week.

On the year to year.

If we hold at this average level (very possible based off of the last 4 episodes, both with and without help from Sports).

We should end close to a 11.00 million viewers and near a 3.35 in the demo.

Last year we averaged (for cycle 13) 10.526 million viewers and a 3.16.

We will probably show year to year growth of 5%. Doesn't sound like a lot, but remember most shows lose about 5% each season. And in the demo we will have increased roughly 6% (also again as most shows loss that amount each year). Then for the icing on the cake. Sunday's 7pm 60 minutes is down both in viewers and demos year to year. And its 9pm hour is down considerable year to year (over 20%).

Meaning not only does TAR perform head and shoulders above any CBS show on Sunday, but it is doing so while teh rest of its lineup is doing far worse then the previous year.

Tonight and tomorrow I am going to look back on Sundays and figure out how show performed with and without overruns. To highlight how this season we have seen the smallest amount of growth due to football since we moved to Sundays. Meaning that the show has been doing so well mainly due to its own strength, not the strength of another show.

Seriously, this and season 12 (which just did awesome numbers and half of them during the dead of December and early January), are almost as impressive (and with the drop in viewers over the years, possible more) as seasons 7's ratings. I am really, really pleased.

Now give me back 13 hours each cycle damn it. I don't care if you put 2 for an opener and two for the ender, but give me my 13 hours. Please.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 25, 2009, 02:26:14 AM: Also would like to point out out the stunning increases as the season has progressed. Our season low was 9.95 million viewers and a 2.8 in A18-49. Prague demonstrated its magic with over 12 million viewers and a 3.7. That's around a 20% increase.

Of course, this leg could just be an anomaly. Let's see what Prague leg 2 has to offer. :jam:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 25, 2009, 09:30:04 AM: ^Oh I am sure we are going to drop. But even if we drop to what we have been doing thats between a 3.3 and 3.5 in the demo (which is just great for Sunday) and 11 million plus in viewers (also really good for us). I am curious when do the other networks go to repeats in December, because if that happens (when we are still on) it should help us generate ratings.

Now if we don't drop (Damn I think I would just fall over in shock).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on November 25, 2009, 10:16:24 AM: Quote from: mswood on November 25, 2009, 09:30:04 AM
^Oh I am sure we are going to drop. But even if we drop to what we have been doing thats between a 3.3 and 3.5 in the demo (which is just great for Sunday) and 11 million plus in viewers (also really good for us). I am curious when do the other networks go to repeats in December, because if that happens (when we are still on) it should help us generate ratings.

Now if we don't drop (Damn I think I would just fall over in shock).

LET'S HAVE MORE FAITH IN THE SHOW WE LOVE!!! :hearts: :hearts: :hearts:

TAR TO REACH 12.5 - 13MILLION VIEWERS?!?!?! :jumpy: :jumpy: :jumpy:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on November 25, 2009, 12:08:48 PM: Joab, Sunday of a Thanksgiving weekend? And only a few markets have a late Sunday afternoon game on the East Coast (but those do include New York City)?

I'm on the cautious side; but I won't be surprised if the viewers are over 11 million and under 12 million, with the demo staying above 3.0. A lot more people are apparently traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday this year, and because many people can't take the whole week off, there's likely to be a lot of driving home going on Sunday.

but we'll see CBS has a hell of a hook this week with the 4 hour roadblock quitting penalty, and causual viewers might want to see how that came about,
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 25, 2009, 03:19:48 PM: Yeah looking back at previous years we should take a hit because of the holiday weekend. With the networks all airing originals for the next two weeks, we wont get any help on that front.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on November 25, 2009, 08:11:49 PM: Holiday weekend sh*t gets aired on Sunday and that's not going to help. But you mswood, you know the numbers than I do, but I'm thinking that since CBS put TAR on Sundays, it has found a core audience and the network knows best not to mess with a good combination of 60 Minutes/The Amazing Race.

I don't want to compare with the nightmare days of 60 Minutes/Murder, She Wrote, but almost similar to how CBS had a rather powerful 1-2 punch in the 1980's on Sundays.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on November 26, 2009, 07:20:23 AM: Ooops i forgot all about thanksgiving! We don't celebrate that occasion here in Singapore.

Then here's to wish TAR maintains above 11million viewers! I remembered when TAR was just getting 9million+ viewers a week and it's really sad... now the numbers are great!!
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 27, 2009, 01:28:43 PM: Well we have had three seasons are episodes on the Sunday after thanksgiving, and surprisingly enough only one of them had a down turn in ratings (Of course that could be due to Sports Overruns).

So here is hoping that we stay over 11 million (11.3 or better would be nice).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: walkingpneumonia on November 27, 2009, 02:33:48 PM: Canadian numbers so far.
Way better than TAR 14 - I don't know if they changed the way they calculate audience numbers since then but TAR 15 is up at least 100,000 per episode...
BTW all these numbers are © 2009 BBM Canada...
Week Rank Week 1 6 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 22:00 2861 Week 2 5 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2669 Week 3 13 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2001 Week 4 9 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2413 Week 5 5 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2619 Week 6 3 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2575 Week 7 3 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2763 Week 9 8 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2619 Week 10 9 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2260 Week 11 November 16 - November 22, 2009 1 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 21:00 2955 2 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:00 2934 3 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 21:59 23:00 2782 4 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2701 5 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 21:59 2690 6 THE MENTALIST CTV Total ...T... 22:00 23:00 2663 7 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2470 8 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:02 23:00 2347 9 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2260 10 C.S.I. CTV Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2134 November 9 - November 15, 2009 1 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:00 23:00 3466 2 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 21:00 3160 3 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:00 3026 4 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2916 5 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:02 23:00 2828 6 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2715 7 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2646 8 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2619 9 C.S.I. CTV Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2558 10 THE MENTALIST CTV Total ...T... 22:00 23:00 2403 November 2 - November 8, 2009 1 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 3048 2 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:00 2909 3 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2763 4 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2762 5 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:00 23:00 2388 6 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:02 23:00 2307 7 DESPERATE HOUSEWIVESCTV Total ......S 21:00 22:00 2205 8 MENTALIST CTV Total ...T... 22:00 23:00 2198 9 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2194 10 V CTV Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2157 October 26 - November 1, 2009 1 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:00 3096 2 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 3076 3 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2575 4 H.N.I.C. GAME #1 CBC Total .....S. 19:07 22:16 2453 5 THE MENTALIST CTV Total ...T... 22:00 23:00 2383 6 C.S.I. CTV Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2188 7 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2011 8 DESPERATE HOUSEWIVESCTV Total ......S 21:00 22:00 1928 9 DANCING/STARS 9 PERFCTV Total M...... 20:00 22:02 1925 10 DANCING/STARS 9 RESUCTV Total .T..... 21:00 22:01 1901 October 19 - October 25, 2009 1 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 21:00 3701 2 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 3187 3 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:00 2995 4 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2861 5 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2619 6 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:02 23:00 2432 7 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:00 23:00 2417 8 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2404 9 H.N.I.C. GAME #1CBC Total .....S. 19:04 22:07 2306 10 DANCING/STARS 9 PERFCTV Total M...... 20:00 22:02 2090 October 12 - October 18, 2009 1 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 21:01 3099 2 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2943 3 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:00 2884 4 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2836 5 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:00 23:00 2663 6 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2473 7 C.S.I. CTV Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2418 8 BONES Global Total ..W.... 20:00 21:00 2416 9 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2413 10 THE MENTALIST CTV Total ...T... 22:00 23:00 2386 October 5 - October 11, 2009 1 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 21:01 3623 2 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:01 2911 3 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2868 4 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2839 5 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2804 6 THE MENTALIST CTV Total ...T... 22:01 23:00 2511 7 C.S.I. CTV Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2490 8 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:00 23:00 2323 9 BONES Global Total ..W.... 20:00 21:00 2271 10 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:02 23:00 2250 11 DANCING/STARS 9 PERFCTV Total M...... 20:00 22:02 2148 12 LIE TO ME Global Total M...... 21:01 22:00 2067 13 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2001 September 28 - October 4, 2009 1 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 21:00 3648 2 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 22:01 2998 3 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:00 23:00 2770 4 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2690 5 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2669 6 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:02 23:00 2626 7 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2597 8 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2542 9 H.N.I.C.GAME #1 CBC Total ...T... 19:22 22:15 2508 10 C.S.I. CTV Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2382 September 21 - September 27, 2009 1 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 22:00 4426 2 GREY'S ANATOMY CTV Total ...T... 21:00 23:00 3279 3 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:01 23:00 3053 4 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:00 2965 5 SURVIVOR:SAMOA Global Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2939 6 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 22:00 2861 7 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2699 8 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:00 23:00 2643 9 C.S.I. CTV Total ...T... 20:00 21:00 2466 10 BONES Global Total ..W.... 20:00 21:00 2111
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 27, 2009, 03:14:36 PM: I love seeing these, I guess I like Canadians after all (don't tell Michael).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on November 30, 2009, 11:03:02 AM: Very nice numbers, courtesy of TVBTN

8:00 CBS The Amazing Race 3.4 8 11.981
8:30 CBS The Amazing Race 3.4 8 11.341

That's a 3.4/8 and 11.661. Very nice! Over 11 million in viewer average now.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on November 30, 2009, 11:13:14 AM: If those hold (which they should be close as the overrun was only a few parts of the nation and only for 4 minutes). We are looking really good for ending the season over 11 million. And a season average of close to 3.4 in adults is going to be close (Which is even more impressive).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on November 30, 2009, 07:11:04 PM: Not TAR related but we are granted our wish

11.30.2009 CBS PROGRAM ADVISORY FOR SUNDAYS, EFFECTIVE DEC. 6

The following replaces previously announced Sunday programming, effective Dec. 6.

Sunday, Dec. 6

9:00-10:00 PM COLD CASE (New Time Period)

*10:00-11:00 PM* NCIS: LOS ANGELES (Rebroadcast)

*Replaces the drama series THREE RIVERS, which is on hiatus.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on December 01, 2009, 03:37:25 AM: Quote
*Replaces the drama series THREE RIVERS, which is on hiatus.

:funny: Finally?
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on December 01, 2009, 09:39:33 AM: Three Rivers is gonna get canceled! :yess:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on December 01, 2009, 11:36:36 AM: CBS is allowing the producers to complete filming their 13 episode order, so my guess is that those will get burned off next summer.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Ryan83 on December 01, 2009, 04:47:06 PM: Quote from: theschnauzers on December 01, 2009, 11:36:36 AM
CBS is allowing the producers to complete filming their 13 episode order, so my guess is that those will get burned off next summer.

so is that for season 16 thats going on right now, or are those 13 episodes order for season 17. Thanks
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 01, 2009, 04:57:02 PM: Quote from: Ryan83 on December 01, 2009, 04:47:06 PM
Quote from: theschnauzers on December 01, 2009, 11:36:36 AM
CBS is allowing the producers to complete filming their 13 episode order, so my guess is that those will get burned off next summer.

so is that for season 16 thats going on right now, or are those 13 episodes order for season 17. Thanks

We are talking about 3 Rivers, which is on hiatus right now (aka cancelled).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 01, 2009, 06:48:18 PM: Finals (Finally)

60 Minutes
- 14.377 million viewers
- 9.0/14 HH
- 2.6/7 A18-49

The Amazing Race
- 11.609 million viewers
- 6.8/10 HH
- 3.4/8 A18-49

A Dog Named Christmas (120 minutes)
- 12.363 million viewers
- 7.7/12 HH
- 2.1/5 A18-49

Very nice

Season average at 11.026
and a 3.345 in adults 18-49

Any result over 11 million gives us a rare season over 11 million.

A 3.4 or higher Sunday will (TechnicallY) give us a rounded average of 3.4 in adults, which is just awesome.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on December 01, 2009, 08:12:30 PM: And this additional detail from the CBS press release on the weekly numbers.
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#18 THE AMAZING RACE 15 (11.61m),
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Seattlite on December 01, 2009, 09:30:20 PM: And it finished ahead of the Survivor Clips show (#23 9.94m). Kind of a cheat, but I'll take the win.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 01, 2009, 10:00:07 PM: Also 19th in adults (though of course less competition for some nights of teh week, especially Thursday.

The average age of our audience also dropped according to a report (that I do question as they show survivor has doing better this year over fall last year, it isn't not in viewers or adults 18-49, so take with a grain of salt) to 49.2 years of age a year younger then what our average was last year (though most show's audience actually increase in age each year).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: walkingpneumonia on December 04, 2009, 02:46:03 PM: Wow - even going up against a phenomenal Grey Cup game - TAR 15 holds its own in Canada last week!

© 2009 BBM Canada

Week Rank Week 1 6 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 22:00 2861 Week 2 5 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2669 Week 3 13 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2001 Week 4 9 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2413 Week 5 5 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2619 Week 6 3 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2575 Week 7 3 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2763 Week 9 8 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2619 Week 10 9 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2260 Week 11 7 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2419 November 23 - November 29, 2009 1 CFL GREY CUP TSN+ ......S 18:37 21:50 5087 2 HOUSE Global Total M...... 20:00 21:01 2911 3 CRIMINAL MINDS CTV Total ..W.... 21:00 22:01 2700 4 NCIS Global Total .T..... 20:00 21:00 2587 5 DANCING/STARS9RESU CTV Total .T..... 21:01 23:00 2498 6 C.S.I. NEW YORK CTV Total ..W.... 22:01 23:00 2455 7 AMAZING RACE 15 CTV Total ......S 20:00 21:00 2419 8 C.S.I. MIAMI CTV Total M...... 22:00 23:00 2308 9 DANCING/STARS9PERF CTV Total M...... 20:00 21:30 2270 10 CFL GREY CUPCNTDOWN TSN+ ......S 18:00 18:37 2227
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 04, 2009, 09:34:39 PM: Now I was going to ask what the hell is a "Grey's" Cup?
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on December 05, 2009, 11:14:09 PM: It's for puking after watching an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" :lol:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on December 05, 2009, 11:42:08 PM: Quote from: TARAsia Fan on December 05, 2009, 11:14:09 PM
It's for puking after watching an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" :lol:
Never watched it, luckily I guess :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on December 07, 2009, 01:07:40 AM: Long gone are the days when ESPN would carry it live in the US. The CFL is not what it used to be, I guess.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on December 07, 2009, 08:53:48 AM: CFL puts on a bunch of regional sports networks. But that's neither here nor there.

Looking forward to the overnights.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 07, 2009, 11:21:46 AM: Fast Nationals are out with a season high in viewers and in teh adult 18-49 demo.

And probably will hold.

Viewers 12.32 million
Adults 18-49: 3.7

Absolutely awesome, one of the strongest finales in race history ratings wise.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 07, 2009, 11:39:55 AM: Quote from: mswood on December 07, 2009, 11:21:46 AM
Fast Nationals are out with a season high in viewers and in teh adult 18-49 demo.

And probably will hold.

Viewers 12.32 million
Adults 18-49: 3.7

Absolutely awesome, one of the strongest finales in race history ratings wise.
:yess: :yess: :yess: :yess: :jam: :jam: :jam: :jam: :jam: :jam: This is Survivor numbers we're talking about here!

It feels good to have over 11 million viewers and a 3.4 average.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: puddin on December 07, 2009, 11:52:37 AM: THE SEASON FINALE OF "THE AMAZING RACE 15" POSTS LARGEST AUDIENCE OF THE SEASON

Finale Races to Double Digit Year-to-Year Percentage Gains in Viewers and Key Demos

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE WINNING MOMENT

http://cbsmediagroupftp.com/clips06/race_120709_STREAM.wmv

Last night's season finale of THE AMAZING RACE 15, won by Meghan and Cheyne, delivered the largest audience of the season and notched across-the-board increases over last year's finale, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Sunday Dec. 6.

From 8:00-9:00PM, THE AMAZING RACE 15 was second in households (7.1/11), viewers (12.32m), adults 25-54 (4.6/10) and adults 18-49 (3.7/09). This is THE AMAZING RACE 15's best households and viewers deliveries this season and matches the best adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 performances. Compared to last year's finale (on the same night last year), THE AMAZING RACE was up +15% in both households (from 6.2/09) and adults 25-54 (from 4.0/09), +19% in adults 18-49 (from 3.1/08) and added +1.81m viewers (from 10.51m, +17%).

Updated AMAZING RACE ratings will be available tomorrow.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on December 07, 2009, 11:54:27 AM: From Media Life Magazine:

Solid finale for
CBS's 'Amazing Race'

Averages a 3.7 in 18-49s, up 19 percent

By Toni Fitzgerald
Dec 7, 2009

"The Amazing Race" quickened its pace for last night's season finale, drawing stronger numbers than its past two finales to finish second behind football in its 8 p.m. timeslot.

"Race" averaged a 3.7 adults 18-49 rating, according to Nielsen overnights, up 19 percent over last fall's 3.1, and that despite the absence of football overrun, which often gives "Race" a ratings jolt.

The show was second in the slot behind NBC's "Sunday Night Football," which averaged a 5.8 rating.

"Race" has performed well all season, and in fact the show was up over last spring's finale as well, which also averaged a 3.1.

Also last night, ABC's scripted shows had their best performances in months. "Desperate Housewives" averaged a 4.8, up 10 percent over last week and matching a season high.

Lead-out "Brothers & Sisters" at 10 p.m. had its best rating in nine months, a 3.7, up 28 percent over the previous week.

As usual, NBC bulldozed the competition, finishing first for the night among 18-49s with a 5.6 average overnight rating and a 14 share. Fox was second at 3.9/10, ABC third at 3.4/8, CBS fourth at 2.4/6 and Univision fifth at 0.9/2.

As a reminder, all ratings are based on live-plus-same-day DVR playback. Seven-day DVR data won’t be available for several weeks. Thirty-three percent of Nielsen households have DVRs.

Also, ratings for Fox’s football overrun and NBC’s “SNF” are approximate as fast nationals measure timeslot and not actual program data.

At 7 p.m. Fox led with a 6.1 for football overrun and “The OT” postgame show, with NBC second with a 2.8 for “Football Night in America.” CBS was third with a 2.1 for “60 Minutes,” ABC fourth with a 2.0 for a repeat of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and Univision fifth with a 0.7 for “Maria de Todos los Angeles.”

NBC took the lead at 8 p.m. with a 5.8 for NFL pregame and the start of “Sunday Night Football,” followed by CBS with a 3.7 for “Race.” ABC and Fox tied for third at 3.0, ABC for “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and Fox for “BCS Selection Show” (3.4) and a repeat of “The Simpsons,” with Univision fifth with a 0.9 for the first hour of the movie “Las Delicias del Poder.”

At 9 p.m. NBC was first again with a 7.3 for football, with ABC second with a 4.8 for “Housewives.” Fox was third with a 2.5 for repeats of “Family Guy” and “American Dad,” CBS fourth with a 2.2 for “Three Rivers” and Univision fifth with a 1.0 for more “Poder.”

At 10 p.m. NBC was first with a 6.4 for football, while ABC remained second with a 3.7 for “Sisters.” CBS was third with a 1.6 for “Cold Case” and Univision fourth with a 0.9 for the end of its movie and “Quien Tiene la Razon.”

NBC also led the night among households with a 9.1 average overnight rating and a 14 share. ABC was second at 6.7/10, CBS third at 6.4/10, Fox fourth at 5.7/9 and Univision fifth at 1.2/2.

Source: http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Overnights_50/Solid_finale_for_CBS_s_Amazing_Race.asp
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on December 07, 2009, 12:07:43 PM: What isn't mentioned is that TAR beat 60 Minutes by about half a million viewers last night.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 08, 2009, 01:01:14 PM: Finals are out and we xdropped slightly.

60 Minutes (97% coverage CBS normally 98%)
- 12.046 million viewers
- 7.8/13 HH
- 2.0/6 A18-49

The Amazing Race
- 12.298 million viewers
- 7.0/11 HH
- 3.7/9 A18-49

Cold Case
- 9.644 million viewers
- 6.1/9 HH
- 2.2/5 A18-49

NCIS: Los Angeles (R)
- 7.261 million viewers
- 4.7/8 HH
- 1.6/4 A18-49
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 08, 2009, 01:07:57 PM: We end with an unofficial season average of

11.132 million viewers (5th highest)
3.375 in adults 18-49 (3.4 basically).

Now on this, since I don't have numbers for all episodes and seasons (unlike viewers). But since moving to Sundays this is the third best (seasons 10 and 12 beat it). But its better then the 3 of the seasons and with a vastly depressed Sunday (for CBS) it is exceptionally good.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 08, 2009, 01:22:14 PM: And for the week:

9th in viewers
11th in demo.

THough of course several shows were airing reruns during this time of the year. Ithis still very strong results for the show.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 08, 2009, 02:50:14 PM: Quote from: mswood on December 08, 2009, 01:22:14 PM
And for the week:

9th in viewers
11th in demo.

THough of course several shows were airing reruns during this time of the year. Ithis still very strong results for the show.

BVM always joked that TAR could be in the top 10 one day. Well, at least it's around the top 20-25 nowadays! Keep the momentum going in 16! :hearts:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 08, 2009, 03:18:38 PM: Caelestor

What is intersting is that network viewing keeps getting lower.

With us staying really fairly consistent over the years ( a bit up here, a bit down there). We used to be a typically be 50th in rank. But for the last three seasons we have averaged right at 21th.

Hell even season 7 only averaged 19th place for that year.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on December 08, 2009, 03:56:12 PM: The thing to keep in mind is that TAR is doing far better than CBS at 9pm or 10pm on SUndays, it beat 60 Minutes this week, it now regularly outdraws Extreme Makeover Home Edition by a million viewers, and it is getting close to Survivor in audience size.
Not to mention the broad 18-49 demo; I'll bet CBS is thrilled with the high income 18-49 demo.

I'm not complaining. As long as CBS remains consistent with TAR's scheduling (leave it on Sundays, and notice that the show can draw more viewers as each edition proceeds from the beginning. Maybe casting will figure out that they don't need to create hyped up drama, and just let the Racers be competitve with one another to have an interesting show. And don't forget the 12th team is location, location, location.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 08, 2009, 06:34:14 PM: Quote from: mswood on December 08, 2009, 01:07:57 PM
We end with an unofficial season average of

11.132 million viewers (5th highest)
3.375 in adults 18-49 (3.4 basically).

Now on this, since I don't have numbers for all episodes and seasons (unlike viewers). But since moving to Sundays this is the third best (seasons 10 and 12 beat it). But its better then the 3 of the seasons and with a vastly depressed Sunday (for CBS) it is exceptionally good.

Since TAR moved to Sunday, are the fall ratings better than the spring reasons? :hides
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Seattlite on December 08, 2009, 06:46:13 PM: I think CBS will run a two race season next year and try to rebuild the rest of Sunday.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 08, 2009, 07:27:54 PM: Quote from: Seattlite on December 08, 2009, 06:46:13 PM
I think CBS will run a two race season next year and try to rebuild the rest of Sunday.

You mean two hours of TAR each week? I don't know; the race might seem too short then.
I wonder what would happen if TAR and Survivor swapped.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on December 08, 2009, 08:33:23 PM: No, he means the current fall-spring cycle setup.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 08, 2009, 10:47:07 PM: Quote from: Caelestor on December 08, 2009, 06:34:14 PM
Quote from: mswood on December 08, 2009, 01:07:57 PM
We end with an unofficial season average of

11.132 million viewers (5th highest)
3.375 in adults 18-49 (3.4 basically).

Now on this, since I don't have numbers for all episodes and seasons (unlike viewers). But since moving to Sundays this is the third best (seasons 10 and 12 beat it). But its better then the 3 of the seasons and with a vastly depressed Sunday (for CBS) it is exceptionally good.

Since TAR moved to Sunday, are the fall ratings better than the spring reasons? :hides
Yes, but that is typical of TV in general. Though in fairness it actually started the year before with season's 8 - 9.

The only other possible comparisons is seasons 1 -2 (but I hate to judge season one, since a good portion of that season was heavily impacted by the change in viewership due to 9-11). And then we had the late summer to Spring stretch of seasons 5,6 and 7 (what a great year for TAR). BUt with the advent of stunt casting off of the far more successful survivor (which was hitting 10 million more viewers then TAR at that time), it also makes it unfair to use that (as season 7 was in the Spring).

So we should expect a good drop in the spring, not only do we have little help from sports (for CBS in general, though Basketball usually helps for about 4 weeks), we get hit hard by the Oscars (typically the lowest broadcast for TAR of that year, and we might even get hit by the Olympics depending on when we start. Then we also will have to deal with having a much lower turnout for CBS on Sunday to begin with (with the failure of its 9 and 10 programming.

Of course, the good side of that is TAR even with lower numbers will still stick out from the rest of the CBS lineup.

Truly if anything CBS should learn its lesson and bump up its order of hours for TAR. With either (hell both would be nice) going back to two hours for the first leg (not two episodes, but two hours), which they have done in seasons 5,6,7,8,9 (4 and 10 had 90 minute episodes). And bump the episode order back up to 13 (I mean I am happy they went up to 12 (truly I am). Hell they could even increase the final leg into two hours (they have aired two episodes for the finale, but never have they actually had a two hour final leg).

The cons of adding an leg is that it is expensive (longer time holding people, travel expenses, more stunts and tasks, ect).

The pros for upping the opener or the closing leg (to two hours) is that it adds almost no additional cost. Its just more post production and editing. And they can reap much larger ad rates then what will most likely be airing when TAR isn't. Season 12 proved without a doubt that TAR could still be huge for CBS during the off season.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 09, 2009, 12:05:30 AM: Quote from: mswood on December 08, 2009, 10:47:07 PM

Of course, the good side of that is TAR even with lower numbers will still stick out from the rest of the CBS lineup.

Truly if anything CBS should learn its lesson and bump up its order of hours for TAR. With either (hell both would be nice) going back to two hours for the first leg (not two episodes, but two hours), which they have done in seasons 5,6,7,8,9 (4 and 10 had 90 minute episodes). And bump the episode order back up to 13 (I mean I am happy they went up to 12 (truly I am). Hell they could even increase the final leg into two hours (they have aired two episodes for the finale, but never have they actually had a two hour final leg).

The cons of adding an leg is that it is expensive (longer time holding people, travel expenses, more stunts and tasks, ect).

The pros for upping the opener or the closing leg (to two hours) is that it adds almost no additional cost. Its just more post production and editing. And they can reap much larger ad rates then what will most likely be airing when TAR isn't. Season 12 proved without a doubt that TAR could still be huge for CBS during the off season.

A 2-hour intro would be very much appreciated to help us get to know the teams. A 2-hour finale would be too much imo, but a 90 minute leg + a 30-minute reunion show would be excellent (Survivor has it, why can't we?).

Over the issue of budget, I've also said before that TAR should make two legs in the same country one TBC to reduce pit stop / speedbump cost (sorely disappointed that they didn't implement one in Dubai & Prague this season). However, I believe TAR's primary costs come from all those expensive flight tickets purchased the day of the flight. Thus I believe the producers are now purchasing them in advance, using more direct flights, and manipulating pit stops to cut down on cost. Ways to solve this: Take the train or bus in Europe/South America (they are apparently doing the latter in the starting legs of TAR 16), and avoid going to too many first-world countries in one season (like Japan :groan:).

As for TAR 16, it should start the Sunday after Oscars with a 2-hour intro and have a continuous run (Except for that annual b-ball game). I can't see CBS putting their strongest Sunday series against one of the most-watched telecasts of the entire year AGAIN :groan:. Furthermore, TAR's ratings tend to climb throughout the season as viewers get reacquainted with the latest cycle. I'm not sure how many episodes CBS can order without running over the end of the TV season, but I would really love 12.5 hours this season + reunion show (slowly inching our way back to a full cycle).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Seattlite on December 09, 2009, 08:44:42 AM: To have a show that has been around as long as TAR and showing such season to season growth when most shows (Survivor) are fading is a gem for CBS. They may invest more money directly in the show and we have more legs or they visit more expensive countries. They may keep a 12th team in the race longer or spend more on promotion. The race filming now will be fitting into a odd post Olympic schedule so I think the races filmed next year will be affected more.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on December 09, 2009, 01:43:33 PM: Quote from: Seattlite on December 09, 2009, 08:44:42 AM
To have a show that has been around as long as TAR and showing such season to season growth when most shows (Survivor) are fading is a gem for CBS. They may invest more money directly in the show and we have more legs or they visit more expensive countries. They may keep a 12th team in the race longer or spend more on promotion. The race filming now will be fitting into a odd post Olympic schedule so I think the races filmed next year will be affected more.

Or they will just continue to save $$ on the race where they can...I have no faith that good ratings will translate into more $$ spent ON the race, but I will just be grateful and thankful if it keeps us going!!! :yess:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 09, 2009, 03:20:49 PM: Well in let me tell you I was very surprised to get 12 hours this season. It's still not 13, or even 14 (when we have a two hour opener with 13 legs), but it felt so much better then 11 hours that we have had lately.

So thank god for that.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: walkingpneumonia on December 09, 2009, 03:35:30 PM: Amazing Race #1 show in Canada last week!

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/735538--hot-box-tv-worth-talking-about (http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/735538--hot-box-tv-worth-talking-about)
Amazing Finale: CTV says 3.1 million Canadians watched the final episode of the 15th season of The Amazing Race on Sunday night, making the U.S. show, which is also carried on CBS, the most-watched program of the week in Canada. (For those who missed it, Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney crossed the finish line first in Las Vegas after circling the world, with stops in Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, Sweden, Estonia and the Czech Republic.) This season of The Amazing Race averaged 2.68 million viewers in Canada, up 46 per cent from last fall's competition.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 09, 2009, 04:28:08 PM: That's great news. Love those Canadians.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Hooky on December 10, 2009, 12:29:03 AM: The thing is that despite the growth in popularity of the race, they still shortened it with Season 12. Now granted, it was still not on a perfectly solid foundation back then, but it had sufficiently recovered from the Family Edition, and a drastic shortening wasn't warranted. I think that it will stay at 12 hours, but I think they are going to have more seasons with 12 teams in the future. I think they would prefer having more attention-grabbing tasks and dynamic teams rather than more legs or hours of footage, so I think that's where the money will go (and is already going).

But I don't think 12 hours is enough to get to know 12 teams unless the first leg is a non-elim every season. Technically, Leg 1 of TAR 15 still had an elimination, and look at how little we got from Eric & Lisa and Garrett & Jessica.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on December 10, 2009, 12:33:40 AM: Let's hope if TAR17 is greenlighted that CBS will increase the budget and allow the show to be shot in HD. And give us 13 to 14 hours instead of 12. We can only hope right? :lol:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Hooky on December 10, 2009, 12:53:13 AM: Quote from: TARAsia Fan on December 10, 2009, 12:33:40 AM
Let's hope if TAR17 is greenlighted that CBS will increase the budget and allow the show to be shot in HD. And give us 13 to 14 hours instead of 12. We can only hope right? :lol:

Of course. :lol:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: walkingpneumonia on December 10, 2009, 09:39:03 AM: According to this reporter, TAR has over 100 million viewers :funny:

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Translated - With an estimated audience of over a hundred million viewers, the program again put the city as the scene of mega productions for the CBS signal.

:spoiler:Caution - this link contains spoilers for TAR 16! http://piedraonline.blogspot.com/2009/12/amazing-race-grabo-una-de-las-etapas-en.html (http://piedraonline.blogspot.com/2009/12/amazing-race-grabo-una-de-las-etapas-en.html)
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 10, 2009, 10:02:42 AM: Actually I think they seriously need to rethink HD for season 17 and later. With almost all shows in HD, TAR's look (one of its strengths) is not matching up with some other programming.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on December 10, 2009, 10:36:02 AM: As someone who just got an HDTV, seeing the show shrunk is not very appealing.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 10, 2009, 11:36:36 AM: One of TAR strength was its various beautiful settings, and seeing as so many things (even things like Documentaries, news, ect) in full HD have made TAR look old.

They really, really need to fix that (have the cemera people start hitting the gym's harder).
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 10, 2009, 05:02:54 PM: Probably the most scenery TAR has ever shown was the TAR 6 premier. Iceland :hearts:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 10, 2009, 08:43:15 PM: Quote from: Caelestor on December 10, 2009, 05:02:54 PM
Probably the most scenery TAR has ever shown was the TAR 6 premier. Iceland :hearts:
They have rarely done snow (or icy areas) to start with. But No matter my feelings on the cast I loved the start of seasons 6 and 4. Both were quite beautiful.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: DrRox on December 11, 2009, 06:45:58 AM: I would love to see TAR16 start with a 2 hour episode after the Superbowl and before the Olympics. I know the always start with the fly to someplace and camp out. This lets the teams get used to the travel and lack of sleep, etc. But a good two hour episode with lots going on to get the viewers excited about new TAR......then take a break for the Olympics. Then the majority of viewers would be anticipating more TAR after the Olympics instead of trying to remind viewers to watch after the Olympics.......give them all a tease first........And Phil could always say during the previews that TAR will be back right after the Olympics........
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on December 11, 2009, 06:19:44 PM: Here is what Phil said about why we don't have hi-def:

...why hasn't "The Amazing Race" followed the industry trend and moved into high definition?

"I think it should be in hi-def," Keoghan agrees. "The complication, or one of the challenges that we have is that we do utilize a lot of foreign crews when we're traveling. It's very difficult to just turn up in Siberia and say, 'Oh, let's call the local guy with the HD camera and he can come down and supplement our shooting.' It's a little bit more complicated than, say, facilitating an HD shoot on 'Survivor,' where you can fly all of the equipment into one spot and you've got all your technical support there, you've got a guy who can sit down every night and look after the equipment. We're moving at breakneck speed, 28 days, flying hundreds-of-thousands of miles, or at least anywhere from 75,000 miles in a given race, so we just don't have the same luxury of being an 'Idol' or 'Survivor,' where everything is brought to one place, it's 69 degrees, where the air-conditioning is perfect. We're out sweating in Botswana or anywhere else and that's been a huge part of the challenge. But, I absolutely agree with you. I'd love to see the show in HD. I don't think there's a show on TV that lends itself more to HD."

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2009-3-28-phil-keoghan-discussing-biking-across-america
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Mister RC on December 11, 2009, 07:50:25 PM: Lost my original, and much better reply, but basically that's understandable, the HD thing. If they don't ever do this, that's fine. However, if they had the season in HD, given all that it would take? That would pretty much guarantee the emmy for life!

That, of course, barring something stupid that would happen to cost them the title, with or without HD.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: TARAsia Fan on December 11, 2009, 08:11:56 PM: I understand the logistics, but pretty soon, HD will be the standard around the world. Hopefully, we'll see TAR in HD in our lifetime. :lol:
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on December 11, 2009, 08:51:37 PM: I don't think the issue is with SWRP having HD cameras; it's a matter of having local crews who own that technology and put it to use outside the context of TAR. That's where it becomes expensive, and WRP couldn't justify being the ones to bear that expense for camera teams they would only use for a few days, at most. (I'm not talking about the crews that travel with Phil and the teams, but the local crews that would be at locations along the way.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 11, 2009, 09:48:02 PM: Quote from: georgiapeach on December 11, 2009, 06:19:44 PM
We're moving at breakneck speed, 28 days, flying hundreds-of-thousands of miles, or at least anywhere from 75,000 miles in a given race.

Sadly, it's now about 25000 to 40000 miles in 3 weeks.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: theschnauzers on December 11, 2009, 11:54:14 PM: Phil was referring to the totalnumber of miles involved for the different flights, for Phil, crews, production, Bert, Elise, planning, eliminated teams, etc.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 12, 2009, 12:27:29 AM: While there has never been any real doubt that TAR has more challenges then a show like survivor (or even many of the documentaries currently being shot around all corners of the globe) at some point (and possible soon), the show will appear rather old, and that will absolutely cost them some viewers (and possible a considerable amount).

As HD TV sets penetration increases in the US, and more and more programming readily available in HD format, TAR will lose serious appeal. CBS might want to consider two possible options.

1. Filming two cycles (one year, to allow market growth in both the US and the world, not to mention expense of units to drop even further as well as the weight to decline, both of which are still issues) in a race planned to maximize the locations where local talent already does exist (and there are tons of places around the world where this is the case).

2. Or they might consider whether the financial expense of hiring experienced camera talent and if necessary having groups of them at "trouble" spots would be less then the possible long term risk to what has turned into an extremely consistent moderate success for CBS.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Hooky on December 12, 2009, 01:34:15 PM: I don't know. Is it really that bad to watch a show that is not in HD? I'm not understanding why some people are so annoyed about this. The show looks clear enough to me. They aren't going to lose me as a viewer, HD or not.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Caelestor on December 12, 2009, 01:55:02 PM: Quote from: Hooky on December 12, 2009, 01:34:15 PM
I don't know. Is it really that bad to watch a show that is not in HD? I'm not understanding why some people are so annoyed about this. The show looks clear enough to me. They aren't going to lose me as a viewer, HD or not.

I agree. Patience guys! TAR 14 showed that it can still be quite stunning even if not in HD. All you need are good locations and tasks.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Jobby on December 12, 2009, 08:27:59 PM: HD or no HD, just make sure my TAR stays. :kisses
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: mswood on December 13, 2009, 01:23:58 PM: Well were fans of the show, far beyond the casual viewer. I would watch in black and white. I would be willing to beat that many wouldn't.

But as tv gets larger (average size at homes), as more and more people watch HD, shows that don't will feel some lose.

TV went through this with the advent of color programming and some shows were much slower to transition took a ratings hit.

Now I wouldn't expect it next year (at least in any significant numbers) but after that. I honestly would expect to see drop off, due solely to its filming.
Title: Re: Amazing Race Season 15 ratings
Post by: Seattlite on December 16, 2009, 09:27:04 AM: When Survivor went to HD they promoted the heck out of it and it did not seem to bump up the ratings. I did not know about the local crew thing that Phil talks about but I was hoping they would make the switch next year. Then I would be waiting for the next thing coming to TV, TAR 3D.