RATINGS
April 2017 was up 27% versus year ago, propelling TLC to the #6 Primetime ad-supported cable network with W25-54. For the month, TLC saw double-digit growth on five nights of the week and was #1 on Wednesday night among W25-54/18-49. It was also the highest rated Wednesday night ever for any April with W25-54 and most watched with P2+ viewers.
On Sunday, ABC’s The Last 100 Days of Diana was tops in its time slot among total viewers (6.4 million) and tied among A18-49 (.9/3), the net’s best numbers in the 9p-11p time period since the Oscars.
And they’re off! The first week Ryan Seacrest was by Kelly Ripa’s side, syndicated talker LIVE with Kelly and Ryan was up 18% in Households week over week (to 2.6/9), its highest-rated week in 9 weeks, and rose 22% among W25-54 (to 1.1/9), matching a 9-week high, according to metered market ratings.
Animal Planet delivered Primetime increases of +9% (to 623,000) in Total Viewers P2+ in April versus April 2016 in Live+3. The network also climbed five positions on the A25-54 monthly ranker versus March, and broke into cable television’s Top 30 (#30) for the month.
Top Ten Basic Cable Network Live+7 Performance among Total Viewers for the week of April 17, 2017
Primetime (000)/Total Prog. Day (000)
TNT 3097/FOXN 1459
FOXN 2288/NICK 1181
HGTV 1503/TNT 1140
MSNBC 1430/ADSM* 872
DISC 1393/HGTV 851
TBSC 1375/DSNY 820
USA 1347/MSNBC 761
ESPN 1257/NAN* 741
HIST 1178/ID 726
FX 1164/TOON 701
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 116,400,000 homes. * + Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen Data stream; Preliminary: Live+7. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performances.
Top Ten Basic Cable Network Live+7 Performance among A18-49 for the week of April 17, 2017
Primetime (000), Total Prog. Day (000)
TNT 1584/TNT 554
TBSC 627/ADSM* 539
ESPN 597/NAN* 366
USA 597/NICK 351
BRAV 562/ESPN 328
VH1 551/TBSC 276
ADSM 549/ID 262
DISC 533/HGTV 247
FX 464/USA 246
A&E 434/TOON 245
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe 116,400,000 homes. * + Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen Data stream; Preliminary: Live+7. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performance.
Top-Rated Cable Shows among A18-49 for the week of April 17 2017 (000)
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta (VH1) 2635
Golden State/Portland (ESPN) 2413
Portland/Golden State(TNT) 2249
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (BRAVO) 2246
Boston/Chicago (TNT) 2205
LA Clippers/Utah (TNT) 2031
Basketball Wives (VH1) 2023
Oklahoma City/Houston (TNT) 2014
Better Call Saul (AMC) 1919
Indiana/Cleveland (TNT) 1900
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe 116,400,000 homes. * + Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen Data stream; Preliminary: Live+7. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performance.
NIELSEN SOCIAL CONTENT RATINGS: Top Series and Specials by Total Interactions for the week of May 1, 2017
Program, Total Interactions (000), Facebook (000), Twitter (000)
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo) 652, 481, 171
The Voice (NBC) 631, 104, 526
MTV Movie & TV Awards (MTV) 602, 364, 239
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) 506, 484, 22
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (VH1) 340, 297, 43
Empire (Fox) 338, 192, 89
WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) 280, 192, 89
The Profile in Courage Award (MSNBC) 279, 171, 58
The Late Show (CBS) 212, 97, 115
Source: Nielsen. Uniques and Interactions are a measure of total relevant U.S. social media activity grossed across Facebook and Twitter from three hours before through three hours after broadcast, local time. Includes primetime and late fringe programming with metrics available across social platforms on Broadcast and National Cable and excludes sports events.
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of May 1, 2017
Program, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (000)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros./synd.) 8661, 103, 84, 139543
E! News (E!) 7031, 918, 7, 29274
Pretty Little Liars (Freeform) 3869, 217, 18, 25778
Today Show (NBC) 1901, 577, 3, 11598
Good Morning America (ABC) 1233, 594, 2, 11692
TMZ (Warner Bros./synd.) 1204, 1019, 1, 13040
The Tonight Show (NBC) 1198, 167, 7, 19757
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 1077, 50, 22, 29167
NBC Nightly News (NBC) 993, 522, 2, 4060
The Flash (CW) 965, 35, 27, 10358
includes the total volume of post-level likes, shares, favorites, retweets and comments. Total content includes all posts, tweets and media posted by each TV property across all platforms. Actions per post metric notes the average e number of actions garnered by each TV property. Total fans/followers includes Facebook and Twitter and Instagram followers
Top 13 Live+7 Playback Rankers by actual gain for the week of April 17, 2017
Live+SD/Live+7/+7 Actual Gain
Designated Survivor (ABC) 1.0/2.4/1.4
Scandal (ABC) 1.3/2.4/1.1
Blacklist (NBC) .8/1.7/.9
Bull (CBS) 1.1/1.9/.8
Scorpion (CBS) 1.1/1.9/.8
NCIS (CBS) 1.3/2.1/.8
Prison Break (Fox) .9/1.7/.8
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC) .8/1.5/.7
American Housewife (ABC) 1.2/2.9/.7
NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) 1.1/1.8/.7
Survivor (CBS) 1.7/2.4/.7
Superstore (NBC) .9/1.6/.7
The Voice (NBC) 2.0/2.7/.7
Based on the difference between Nielsen’s first-reported Live + Same Day and the final Live + 7 Day ratings (for regular, original programs only).
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Friday, May 5, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 4.7/9
Undercover Boss 3.2/7, Hawaii Five-0 5.0/10, Blue Bloods 5.6/11
NBC: 3.0/6
First Dates 2.4/5, Dateline 3.3/6
ABC: 2.4/5
The Toy Box 1.8/4, Shark Tank 2.8/5, 20/20 2.6/5
FOX: .9/2
Lucifer .9/2, Lethal Weapon .9/2
UNIVISION 1.1/2
Rosa de Guadalupe .8/2, Vino el Amor 1.4/3, La Piloto 1.1/2
TELE: .5/1
El Capo .5/1, Guerra de Idolos .4/1, Querida Centauro .5/1
CW: .6/1
Originals .7/1, Reign .5/1
Friday A19-49: CBS.9/4, ABC .8/4, NBC .8/4, FOX .3/2, UNI .7/3, TELE .3/1, CW .2/1
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Comcast Cable promoted Marcien Jenckes to President, Advertising. Jenckes had been Executive Vice President, Consumer Services.
NBCUniversal veteran Marianne Gambelli has been named President of Ad Sales for Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, effective May 22. Gambelli, who will replace Paul Rittenberg, recently served as Chief Investment Officer at Horizon Media.
Joseph Boyle was upped to Vice President of Production and Development for Discovery. Most recently, the Emmy-winning producer served as Senior Director of Production and Development.
Showtime Networks Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and Production Melinda Benedek is retiring after 22 years with the company. Benedek will remain with Showtime through the end of the year; no replacement has been announced.
Shout! Factory promoted Lauren Blum to Associate Vice President of Publicity. Blum previously served as Senior Director of Publicity.
HITN hired Laura Masnatta as Executive Producer. Before joining HITN, Masnatta led her own production house, People Project Film.
This Day in History: 1961 – FCC chairman Newton N. Minow called television programming a “vast wasteland” in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which series set in a high school featured a secretary named Miss Hogarth? Room 222 (1969-1974). Kudos to: Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Mark Wajda/Leesburg, FL, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Deerfield Beach, FL, Helene Castellon-Mediavest|Spark/NYC, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, Alex Petrilli, David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa del Vista, CA, Ken DuBow-Bob’s Your Uncle/LA, Jeffrey Want-Brian Graden Media/LA, Julie Houston-Tom Scott Agency/Boise, ID
Today’s Trivia Question: Which unlikable TV character’s daughter kidnapped her as payback for sending her to reform school? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: A limit of four correct answers from each time zone will be selected.).
Answer to Friday’s Anagram: Home Tech Martyr = My Mother the Car. Kudos to: David Stern-BARD Entertainment, NYC, Joel Dearing-Virtual News Center/Indianapolis, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA
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