RATINGS
ABC had its top-rated Friday in over 14 years with Game 4 of the NBA Finals. The game scored 4.6/22 among A18-49, and 13.3 million viewers.
What hackers? The premiere of ABC’s Steve Harvey’s Funderdome on Sunday delivered 6.1 million total viewers and a 1.4/5 rating, holding 93% of its lead-in, Celebrity Family Feud.
Sunday’s Hamilton-less Tonys on CBS averaged 6 million viewers in fast nationals, down 31% versus last year, and .9 among A18-49, down 44%.
The second outing of NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly grabbed a .9/4 rating among A18-49, up a tenth from its debut, and 4.4 million viewers, a 28% dip.
Sunday’s face-off between the USA and Mexico was the most-viewed soccer match on any network this year, regardless of language, reaching 8.5 million viewers. The match averaged 4.5 million P2+ and 2.5 million A18-49 on Univision, with a simulcast on UDN.
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of June 5, 2017
Program, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (000)
America’s Got Talent (NBC) 9240, 214, 43, 8497
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros./synd.) 7923, 97, 82, 143479
E! News (E!) 4853, 785, 6, 29769
Pretty Little Liars (Freeform) 3064, 185, 117, 25917
Shadowhunters (Freeform) 2663, 273, 10, 3426
Today Show (NBC) 1689, 640, 3, 11734
TMZ (Warner Bros./synd.) 1207, 969, 1, 13195
Good Morning America (ABC) 1061, 526, 2, 117832
The Daily Show (Comedy) 992, 122, 8, 14454
The Late Late Show (CBS) 968, 170, 6, 3755
Based on Total Actions (reactions, comments, shares and retweets)
NIELSEN SOCIAL CONTENT RATINGS: Top Series and Specials by Total Interactions for the week of June 5, 2017
Program, Total Interactions (000), Facebook (000), Twitter (000)
The 71st Annual Tony Awards (CBS) 1713, 1359, 354
America’s Got Talent (NBC) 936, 882, 54
CMT Music Awards (CMT) 758, 680, 78
WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) 274, 178, 96
Pretty Little Liars (Freeform) 212, 171, 41
The Bachelorette (ABC) 197, 98, 98
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (VH1) 196, 146, 50
WWE Smackdown! (USA) 130, 72, 58
Gotham (Fox) 93, 53, 40
RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1) 86, 51, 34
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.
Top 10 Live+7 Playback Rankers by actual gain for the week of May 22, 2017
Live+SD/Live+7/+7 Actual Gain
Empire (Fox) 2.5/3.8/1.3
Law & Order: SVU (NBC) 1.3/2.2/.9
Amazing Race (CBS) .6/1.4/.8
Bull (CBS) 1.1/1.9/.8
The Flash (CW) 1.1/1.9/.8
The Bachelorette (ABC) 1.8/2.5/.7
Survivor (CBS) 1.9/2.6/.7
Prison Break (Fox) .7/1.4/.7
Lucifer (Fox) .8/1.5/.7
Gotham (Fox) 1.0/1.6/.6
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, June 9, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
ABC: 7.5/16
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2.4/5, NBA Countdown 3.3/7, NBA Finals 10.7/22
CBS: 3.2/7
MacGyver 2.8/6, Hawaii Five-0 3.2/6, Blue Bloods 3.5/7
NBC: 2.9/6
America’s Got Talent 2.8/6, Dateline 3.2/6
UNIVISION .9/2
Rosa de Guadalupe .8/2, Doble Vida e Carrillo .8/2, La Piloto .8/2
FOX: .8/2
MasterChef .9/2, Lucifer .7/1
CW: .6/1
Originals .7/1, Reign .5/1
TELE: .5/1
El Capo .4/1, Querida Centauro .5/1, Querida Centauro .5/1
Friday A19-49: ABC: 4.6/22, NBC: .9/4, CBS .5/2,UNI .5/2, TELE .3/1,FOX .3/2, CW .2/1
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Fox News Channel promoted 6 execs, all reporting to Suzanne Scott, President of Programming. Meade Cooper was named Senior Vice President, Programming; John Finley was upped to SVP of Development and Production; Ron Mitchell is now Vice President of Story Development, Prime Time Programming; Lauren Petterson becomes SVP, Morning Programming and Talent Development; Amy Sohnen is VP of Talent Development and Jill Van Why has been elevated VP of Programming Operations. The moves will provide “a more efficient and cohesive partnership across all aspects of programming and production,” said Scott.
A+E Networks has appointed John Flanagan as General Manager for The History Channel Japan Corp. Previously, Flanagan served as President and Representative Director for Blackhawk Network Japan & Korea.
Nippon Television Network Corporation appointed Board Director and Operating Officer Yoshio Nakayama to oversee the IBD division for Nippon TV. Nakayama joined the News Division of Nippon TV in 1983.
Joanne Rubino has been promoted to President of Production at Thinkfactory Media. Rubino had been Executive Vice President.
This Day in History: 1925 – TV pioneer Charles Jenkins demonstrated the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: On which short-lived F.B.I. series did Candice Bergen guest as a con artist mom? Battle Creek (2015). Kudos to: Gayathri Jayakumar-Three/Saratoga Springs, NY, Ellery J. Locklear-Scollon Productions, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Deerfield Beach, FL, Matt Willence-ITN Networks/NYC, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA.
Today’s Trivia Question – F.B.I. Theme Week: Which series had a 2-part crossover with another procedural, focused on a boy who disappeared 6 years earlier? (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 Monday’s Anagram: Throw All Ice = White Collar. Kudos to: Keith Marder-Halstead Property/NYC, David Stern-Bard Entertainment/NYC, Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank
Reality Show Anagram: Dynamic Ban A Bore (Email [email protected]; first three respondents with the correct answer who aren’t in trivia will be posted in tomorrow’s newsletter.)
