RATINGS
America’s Got Talent ratings helped lift NBC Tuesday night. The series was boosted 4% among adults 18-49 from fast affiliate results of last week and even with the final numbers. It was the top-rated and most-viewed show of the evening.
Scripps Networks Interactive nets posted boosts in weekend ratings: Travel Channel increased 6% during Friday primetime with new series Josh Gates’ Destination Truth; and DIY Network jumped 51%, Cooking Channel surged 76% over last year. Food Network ranked No. 6 among cable in Saturday primetime, and HGTV ranked No. 4 during Sunday primetime among cable.
The season 5 premiere of Telemundo’s El Senor de los Cielos delivered 2.275 million total viewers and 1.396 million among A18-49 on Tuesday, ranking as the #1 station at 10p, regardless of language, in LA, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Phoenix and Philadelphia in the demo.
Top 10 U.S. Primetime Shows, Shareablee Video Power Index June 12-18, 2017
Show, VPI, Video Actions, Video Views, Total Actions
Little Big Shots (NBC) 2234, 1.4M, 46.9M, 1.4M
Pretty Little Liars (Freeform) 1422, 1.7M, 7.3M 4.7M
America’s Got Talent (NBC) 1344, 3.5M, 105.4M, 3.8M
The Originals (CW) 819, 443K, 2.7M, 464K
Shadow hunters (Freeform) 65, 1.2M, 1.1M, 2.1M
So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) 491, 383K, 13.2M, 467K
Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!) 370, 300K, 4.9M, 480K
The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC) 301, 54K, 470K, 371K
RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1) 274, 238K, 2.1M, 785K
Reign (CW) 239, 101K, 683K, 221K
Based on Shareablee’s Video Power Index, which combines viewing, consumer interactions and audience scale across all active platforms and includes the video performance of primetime TV shows.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
NBC: 6.3/12
America’s Got Talent 7.4/14, World of Dance 4.6/9
CBS: 3.8/7
NCIS: The Wall 4.2/8, Bull 3.5/7, NCIS: New Orleans 3.5/7
ABC: 1.4/3
Downward Dog 2.1/4, The Middle 1.4/3, black-ish 1.3/2, black-ish 1.3/2, American Housewife 1.2/2, Fresh Off the Boat 1.1/2
FOX: .9/2
Lethal Weapon 1.1/2, The Mick .7/1, Brooklyn Nine-Nine .8/1
UNIVISION: .9/2
Jose de Egipto .8/2, Doble Vida E Carrillo .9/2, La Piloto .9/2
CW: .5/9
The Flash .4/1, iZombie .5/1
Tuesday A19-49: NBC 2.3/10, CBS .6/2, UNI .6/2, ABC .5/2, FOX .4/2, CW .2/1
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
CBS Daytime has promoted three executives: Margot Wain (SVP, Daytime Programs); Ray Paolantonio and Laurie Seidman (VPs, Daytime Programs). This comes a day after the net renewed its full daytime slot, indicating a bullish feeling about the daypart.
Jen Neal, EVP, Marketing E! Entertainment will expand her role at the net as she takes on executive producing E! Live Events, including Live from the Red Carpet and People’s Choice Awards.
Warner Horizon‘s Stephanie Groves has been named Universal Cable Productions Head of Current, stepping in to replace Richard Rothstein, who is exiting to become a producer.
Animation and design studio Laundry appointed James Sweigert as managing director; Sweigert most recently worked at mOcean as EP of TV and Streaming.
Mandy Anderson was named VP of sales for NBC Connecticut. Anderson moved from NBC Bay Area/KNTV, where she worked as Local Sales Manager for five years.
This Day in History: 1633 – Galileo Galilei was prohibited by the Church from teaching that the Earth orbits the sun, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. In 1992, the Vatican admitted Galileo was right.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was the name of the serial killer who murdered Sam’s husband on Profiler (1996-2000)? Jack of All Trades. Kudos to: Holly Hearn-H2 Concierge Marketing/Sarasota, FL, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Deerfield Beach, FL, Bob Telford-SAG/AFTRA, Calley Village, CA
Today’s Trivia Question: What was the first basic cable series to be nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Comedy? (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 Yesterday’s Anagram: Thong Strips = Sports Night. Kudos to: Dan Smith-Metavision Media, NYC, Michael Strauss-CoxReps/NYC, David Stern-BARD Entertainment, NYC
TV Series Anagram: Highwaymen Loot Gold (Email [email protected] with your answer; first three respondents with the correct answer who aren’t in trivia will be posted in tomorrow’s newsletter.)
