Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., June 4)
06/05/08 09:14 AM
By ED BARK
Viewing levels swooned Wednesday, with Fox, CBS and WFAA8 making the most of the hot/windy weather malaise.
Fox's latest two-hour edition of So You Think You Can Dance drew the most advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds from 7 to 9 p.m., with a repeat of CBS' CSI: NY taking the throttle at 9 p.m.
The first hour of Dance also won prime-time's opening hour in the total homes Nielsens. CBS then controlled the last two hours with CSI: NY and a Criminal Minds repeat.
On NBC, Detroit's closeout of Pittsburgh in the Stanley Cup finale ran fourth overall in total homes with just 63,326 of 'em. Still, the last hour of the matchup skated to second place among 18-to-49-year-olds, outdrawing Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast and a repeat of ABC's Men In Trees.
No program came close to hitting a double-digit rating, with WFAA8's 10 p.m. newscast qualifying as the biggest show in town Wednesday with 207,026 total homes. That was a considerable vault from the 80,375 homes tuned to Trees from 9:45 to 10 p.m.
WFAA8 also won at 10 p.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. And it completed a hard-to-achieve double grand slam by likewise running the table with its 6 a.m. and 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts.
Viewing levels swooned Wednesday, with Fox, CBS and WFAA8 making the most of the hot/windy weather malaise.
Fox's latest two-hour edition of So You Think You Can Dance drew the most advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds from 7 to 9 p.m., with a repeat of CBS' CSI: NY taking the throttle at 9 p.m.
The first hour of Dance also won prime-time's opening hour in the total homes Nielsens. CBS then controlled the last two hours with CSI: NY and a Criminal Minds repeat.
On NBC, Detroit's closeout of Pittsburgh in the Stanley Cup finale ran fourth overall in total homes with just 63,326 of 'em. Still, the last hour of the matchup skated to second place among 18-to-49-year-olds, outdrawing Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast and a repeat of ABC's Men In Trees.
No program came close to hitting a double-digit rating, with WFAA8's 10 p.m. newscast qualifying as the biggest show in town Wednesday with 207,026 total homes. That was a considerable vault from the 80,375 homes tuned to Trees from 9:45 to 10 p.m.
WFAA8 also won at 10 p.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. And it completed a hard-to-achieve double grand slam by likewise running the table with its 6 a.m. and 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts.
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