Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., May 29)
05/30/07 11:15 AM
By ED BARK
A pair of delayed season finales sucked up most of the rarefied ratings air Tuesday night.
ABC's Boston Legal had prime-time's biggest numbers, luring 257,040 D-FW homes. Fox's House came in second for the night with 197,540 homes. Both shows also easily won their respective time slots among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds.
Two other first-run attractions bottomed out. Fox's On the Lot, the film competition produced by heavyweights Mark Burnett and Steven Spielberg, attracted just 71,400 homes in finishing fifth at 7 p.m. opposite an array of rival network reruns and the Univision telenovela La Fea Mas Bella.
The CBS News special Flashpoint, which documented the serious injuries suffered by Iraq war correspondent Kimberly Dozier, likewise finished fifth in total homes. But it did beat the Texas Rangers-Oakland A's game on MY27.
The four major local news wars again were controlled by Belo8 and Fox4. The ABC station won at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. in total homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Fox4 did likewise at 6 a.m. and also whipped all the competing network morning shows with the 7 to 9 a.m. portion of its Good Day
CBS11 had another bad day. Its 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts finished fifth in a five-horse field in the two major audience measurements.
Univision23's competing local Spanish language newscasts at those hours again performed impressively in the key 25-to-54 demo. Noticias 23 finished second, behind Belo8, in both competitions.
A pair of delayed season finales sucked up most of the rarefied ratings air Tuesday night.
ABC's Boston Legal had prime-time's biggest numbers, luring 257,040 D-FW homes. Fox's House came in second for the night with 197,540 homes. Both shows also easily won their respective time slots among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds.
Two other first-run attractions bottomed out. Fox's On the Lot, the film competition produced by heavyweights Mark Burnett and Steven Spielberg, attracted just 71,400 homes in finishing fifth at 7 p.m. opposite an array of rival network reruns and the Univision telenovela La Fea Mas Bella.
The CBS News special Flashpoint, which documented the serious injuries suffered by Iraq war correspondent Kimberly Dozier, likewise finished fifth in total homes. But it did beat the Texas Rangers-Oakland A's game on MY27.
The four major local news wars again were controlled by Belo8 and Fox4. The ABC station won at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. in total homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Fox4 did likewise at 6 a.m. and also whipped all the competing network morning shows with the 7 to 9 a.m. portion of its Good Day
CBS11 had another bad day. Its 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts finished fifth in a five-horse field in the two major audience measurements.
Univision23's competing local Spanish language newscasts at those hours again performed impressively in the key 25-to-54 demo. Noticias 23 finished second, behind Belo8, in both competitions.
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