Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., June 27)
06/28/07 10:38 AM
By ED BARK
Wednesday night's meeting of the minds between Larry King and Paris Hilton managed to boost his CNN show's suspenders a bit.
Their one-hour one-on-one lured 49,980 D-FW homes to give King a decisive victory at 8 p.m. over Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes (21,420 homes). On the previous night, the two surviving Beatles' sit-down with King drew just 16,660 homes while H&C had 33,320.
King's Wednesday night followup act, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, spent its entire first hour analyzing Hilton's net worth to us all. The former host of ABC's Celebrity Mole kept insinuating she's a dummy while 33,320 homes stuck with him.
Hilton-King hardly set the 8 p.m. Nielsens on fire, though. The hour's top draw, Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, hauled in 164,220 homes. And ABC's American Inventor ran a competitive second with 140,420 homes. NBC's struggling Last Comic Standing limped in fourth at 8 p.m. with 90,400 homes, still good enough to handily beat Larry's liberation of Paris.
Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast had another big night, tying CBS' CSI: NY repeat for first in total homes while winning outright with advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds. And the 7 to 8 p.m. portion of TXA21's local news did better than usual -- 73,780 homes -- on yet another storm-pocked night.
NBC5 and Belo8 tied for the top in the 10 p.m. newscast battle, with the Peacock again prevailing with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
The 6 a.m. faceoff went to NBC5 in total homes and Fox4 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Belo8 took first place at 6 p.m. in both ratings measurements and also topped the field at 5 p.m. in total homes. NBC5 won at 5 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demo.
Wednesday night's meeting of the minds between Larry King and Paris Hilton managed to boost his CNN show's suspenders a bit.
Their one-hour one-on-one lured 49,980 D-FW homes to give King a decisive victory at 8 p.m. over Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes (21,420 homes). On the previous night, the two surviving Beatles' sit-down with King drew just 16,660 homes while H&C had 33,320.
King's Wednesday night followup act, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, spent its entire first hour analyzing Hilton's net worth to us all. The former host of ABC's Celebrity Mole kept insinuating she's a dummy while 33,320 homes stuck with him.
Hilton-King hardly set the 8 p.m. Nielsens on fire, though. The hour's top draw, Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, hauled in 164,220 homes. And ABC's American Inventor ran a competitive second with 140,420 homes. NBC's struggling Last Comic Standing limped in fourth at 8 p.m. with 90,400 homes, still good enough to handily beat Larry's liberation of Paris.
Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast had another big night, tying CBS' CSI: NY repeat for first in total homes while winning outright with advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds. And the 7 to 8 p.m. portion of TXA21's local news did better than usual -- 73,780 homes -- on yet another storm-pocked night.
NBC5 and Belo8 tied for the top in the 10 p.m. newscast battle, with the Peacock again prevailing with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
The 6 a.m. faceoff went to NBC5 in total homes and Fox4 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Belo8 took first place at 6 p.m. in both ratings measurements and also topped the field at 5 p.m. in total homes. NBC5 won at 5 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demo.
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