Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., June 17)
06/18/08 10:49 AM
By ED BARK
Boston's Game 6 crunching of L.A. to win the NBA championship expectedly paced the D-FW ratings Tuesday, but settled for a tie in direct competition with NBC's two-hour season premiere of America's Got Talent.
ABC's climactic telecast, which ended at 10:54 p.m. before trophy presentations kicked in, averaged 268,728 D-FW homes overall, with a high of 353,162 in its concluding minutes. From 8 to 10 p.m., Lakers-Celtics and Talent both drew 238,689 total homes. And among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, the game nipped Talent by just one-tenth of a rating point (3,153 viewers).
Over on CBS, a three-hour special devoted to the American Film Institute's latest lists limped in with 90,117 homes, beating only Fox's still onerous The Moment of Truth in the 7 to 8 p.m. hour.
The local news wins were split between NBC5 and WFAA8, with the Peacock crowing loudest.
NBC5 romped to easy wins at 10 p.m. in both total homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Its 302,014 total homes barely lost to the competing 10 to 10:30 p.m. segment of the NBA Finals (316,628 homes).
The Peacock also won at 6 a.m. in both ratings measurements for the second straight day, although its margin in total homes over Fox4 was just one-tenth of a point.
WFAA8 swept the 5 and 6 p.m. news competitions.
Boston's Game 6 crunching of L.A. to win the NBA championship expectedly paced the D-FW ratings Tuesday, but settled for a tie in direct competition with NBC's two-hour season premiere of America's Got Talent.
ABC's climactic telecast, which ended at 10:54 p.m. before trophy presentations kicked in, averaged 268,728 D-FW homes overall, with a high of 353,162 in its concluding minutes. From 8 to 10 p.m., Lakers-Celtics and Talent both drew 238,689 total homes. And among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, the game nipped Talent by just one-tenth of a rating point (3,153 viewers).
Over on CBS, a three-hour special devoted to the American Film Institute's latest lists limped in with 90,117 homes, beating only Fox's still onerous The Moment of Truth in the 7 to 8 p.m. hour.
The local news wins were split between NBC5 and WFAA8, with the Peacock crowing loudest.
NBC5 romped to easy wins at 10 p.m. in both total homes and with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. Its 302,014 total homes barely lost to the competing 10 to 10:30 p.m. segment of the NBA Finals (316,628 homes).
The Peacock also won at 6 a.m. in both ratings measurements for the second straight day, although its margin in total homes over Fox4 was just one-tenth of a point.
WFAA8 swept the 5 and 6 p.m. news competitions.
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