Posted on 05/25/2019 8:29:47 AM PDT by EdnaMode
It's a widely accepted piece of TV ratings dogma that same-day numbers represent a starting point, not the complete picture for a given show.
What's also true, however, is that in 2018-19, the starting point for nearly every returning broadcast series retreated from the previous season.
In fact, only 10 percent (10 of 102) of veteran series increased or held steady with their same-day adults 18-49 rating from the 2017-18 season. The Hollywood Reporter's comparison includes same-day ratings for all original episodes of series that aired more than one episode in the 2018-19 season, including those coded as specials.
Only episodes that aired within the boundaries of the Nielsen-measured season (Sept. 24, 2018-May 22, 2019) are counted, which leaves out a handful of early-September football games and the odd early premiere.
That leaves 92 shows— just over 90 percent — that declined year to year in the key ad demographic. The declines range from minuscule (four hundredths of a point for top-rated Sunday Night Football) to huge (a 0.75-point drop for Will & Grace, which was off by half vs. its first revival season). A heavy majority of those declined by more than 10 percent.
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They should only broadcast programs in Spanish. Ratings for the first year would be horrible but would then increase every year after that (unless we build the Wall).
We only watch NCIS, but this last season it has gone to hell.
NetFlix, Britbox, Acorn, Prime are all far superior to anything offered by the networks
ROKU rules
Maybe they need to combine some of their shows.
I’d like to see a show where a bunch of 8 year olds cook some guy that was trying to survive in the jungle where he was singing songs and dancing with people with black briefcases.
Right now I’m watching Blue Bloods, Chicago PD and The Enemy Within. I still watch the original Law and Order when nothing else is on.
I’ve wound up watching Hallmark Mysteries & Movies for classic Columbo, Monk marathons. I am learning to appreciate Psych.
And now high rated Big Bang Theory has left CBS
BBT stopped being funny years ago. On life support. Young Sheldon is much better.
I have not watched network tv in at least 2 decades. I hope they continue to slide until they are all the way into the abyss. And May PBS and NPR follow.
Todays’s reminder that the season “Key Demo (A18-49)” finish order is determined by the amount of NFL football a network has in primetime.
Entertainment show ratings are tiny, nearly equivalent for the “big 4”, and irrelevant to the finish order.
https://twitter.com/TVGrimReaper/status/1130972525557477377
Worth repeating.
Nielsen’s ratings business is measuring TV AD VIEWING.
The fact that they still measure program viewing is an artifact of the time when they couldn’t measure ads separately.
To the question below, Nielsen does measure streaming ad viewing.
https://twitter.com/TVGrimReaper/status/1129467794796425216
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How much less confusion would there be if they were known as “Ad ratings” instead of “TV ratings”?
And where ratings finish in the spring, is where they’ll start in the fall, and drift down from there.
https://twitter.com/TVGrimReaper/status/1129427514994991104
I haven’t watched anything but local news and the SCI channel in years. Sometimes Motor Trend. Nothing else is worth my (generally worthless) time. I’m retired with real stuff to keep me entertained.
“Because Jim Parsons had better things to do with his life.”
“Why did #BigBangTheory get cancelled again?”
Dittos! My watching is limited to METV, INSP, AntennaTV and TCM.
We cut the cord about 6 weeks ago at my house and the wife and I are loving it! We subscribed to Britbox and Acorn through Prime. There is more good stuff on those two services than we will ever be able to watch and they cost $13 a month combined.
Our Cox bill was $365 a month for cable, phone and internet. We had all of the movie channels (HBO, Showtime etc) and landline phone which really boosted the size of our bill. It is now down to $100, paying for internet only. We pay $45 a month for Hulu with live streaming, Netflix which I think is $14 and the Britbox and Acorn through Prime and that’s it. Equipment cost was 5 Roku boxes for $37 apiece for all of the TV’s that were hooked up to cable. We now have more content than we will ever need that we can get rid of easily if we want to try something else. I will miss the NFL Network and the Pac12 network when football season starts but I will live without those.
One other thing that I did decide to get was Apple Music. Access to 55 million songs for $10 bucks a month has been awesome so far. I used to spend at least $10 each month buying stuff from iTunes and now it is unlimited. I am enjoying that service tremendously.
Love Monk, love Colombo. My goal in life is to have a house like Monk,s.
That would be a great thing to strive for.
Similar here.
My wife is probably driven crazy as I tend to be Mr. Monk-lite.
Broadcast TV with its reliance on commercial interruptions is a dying delivery system.
I like Enemy Within...
First season~hope they don’t screw it up!
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