The time-period premiere of "Gameshow Marathon," 5.8 rating /10 share, put CBS on top at 8 p.m. ABC was second with the live (tape-delayed out West) final rounds of the National Spelling Bee, scoring a 5.0/9 for the hour. A repeat of "So You Think You Can Dance" was third for FOX at 3.8/7. Two episodes of "The Office" averaged 3.4/6 for NBC. A "Smallville" repeat on The WB topped UPN's "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Love, Inc."
It was close, but the Bee was second. Still, 9% of the sets in use were being used watching it (approximately 5.5 million viewers), while the precious American Idol usually gets around 25% and 17 million viewers. So, any ideas Simon had of asking contestants to spell the titles of the songs they're singing went right out the window.
Thursday's top 4 shows represented 32% of the sets in use. What are the other 68% watching? Judging from all the chatter, you would have thought that more people were watching the spelling thing. I hate to question the accuracy of the sainted Nielsen people, but ya gotta wonder.
2 comments:
I think they hyped things up and tell ya its the "number one" show to try and get people to watch, thus then making it the "number one" show!!
When I was a kid our family was a Neilsen family for a short time. We had all kinds of friends asking us to report watching their favorite shows b/c they didn't want them to be canceled. I think my parents also did not write down things that they thought would be embarassing to admit watching.
Until Neilsen figures out a way to track people's tivos, I don't put much stock in what they find.
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