RATINGS
Hallmark Channel’s annual “Summer Nights” programming stunt kicked off on Saturday night with the premiere of Love on Safari, which marked the most-watched and highest rated cable program of the day and week among Households, excluding news and sports. The project averaged a 2.5 Household rating, 2.6 million Total Viewers an 376,000 W25-54.
Univision Network aired three hours of premieres Sunday night, driving the network into first place among Spanish-language broadcasters. Some 4.8 million Total Viewers 2+ tuned in to all or park of the three-hour block.
FOX Business Network marked its 14th consecutive month as the leader in business news, according to Nielsen Media Research.
In a week where almost every daytime program in first-run syndication was down due in part to preemptions for coverage of the Helsinki summit and its aftermath, the top three court shows surged to recent highs in the session ending July 22. Despite being in reruns, Judge Judy (four-week high 6.3 Live+SD national rating, up 2% from the week before tied access game show champ Family Feud as syndication’s number one program overall. Hot Bench (five-week high 2.1, up 11%) was mostly in repeats, but ranked as the third highest show in daytime. People’s Court (1.4, up 8%) rose to a four-week high.
Top 13 Broadcast Programs Among A18-49 ratings/share for the week of July 23, 2018
NBC: America’s Got Talent 2.0/9
ABC: The Bachelorette 1.5/2
CBS: Big Brother 1.5/2
CBS: Big Brother 1.5/2
CBS: Big Brother 1.5/2
NBC: World of Dance 1.2/6
NBC American Ninja Warrior 1.0/7
NBC: World of Dance 1.0/7
FOX: MasterChef 1.0/7
FOX: 24 Hours to Hell and Back 0.9/10
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 7/16/18 ranked in order by HH Rtg
Family Feud (2/T) 6.3 AA
Judge Judy (CTD) 6.3 AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 5.6 AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 5.3 AA
The Big Bang Theory (WB) 4.2 AA
Inside Edition (CTD) 2.8 AA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 2.7 AA
Dr. Phil (CTD) 2.6 AA
Last Man Standing (2/T) 2.4 AA
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 7/16/18 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg
Family Feud (2/T) 1.8 AA
The Big Bang Theory (WB) 1.6AA
Judge Judy (CTD) 1.3 AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 1.0 AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 1.0 AA
Last Man Standing 0.9 AA
Modern Family (2/T) 0.9 AA
Family Guy (2/T) 0.9 AA
The Goldbergs (SPT) 0.8AA
The Cleveland Show (2/T) 0.7AA
Broadcast Evening News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of July 23, 2018
ABC World News Tonight 7.87 million total viewers; 1.3/7 and 1.60 million A25-54
NBC Nightly News 7.27 million total viewers; 1.3/7 and 1.53 million A25-54
CBS Evening News 5.61 million total viewers; 0.9/5 and 1.10 million A25-54
Broadcast Morning News Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of July 23, 2018
ABC: Good Morning America 3.77 million total viewers; 0.9/10 and 1,124,000 A25-54
NBC: Today 3.57 million total viewers; 1.0/11 and 1,174,000 A25-54
CBS: This Morning 2.85 million total viewers; 0.6/6 and 676,000 A25-54
Broadcast Sunday Morning News Shows Ratings July 29, 2018
NBC Meet the Press 2.85 million total viewers; 0.6 and 699,000 A25-54
ABC This Week 2.63 million total viewers; 0.5 and 637,000 A25-54
CBS Face the Nation 2.47 million total viewers; 0.4 and 453,000 A25-54
CBS Face the Nation-2 1.73 million total viewers; 0.4 and 315,000 A25-54
FOX News Sunday 1.14 million total viewers; 0.2 and 284,000 A25-54
Late Night Shows Weekly Average Ratings week of July 23, 2018
CBS: The Late Show 2.80 million total viewers; 0.37/2 among A18-49
NBC: The Tonight Show 2.05 million total viewers; 0.45/3 among A18-49
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live 1.73 million total viewers; 0.34/2 among A18-49
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Monday, July 30, 2018 time period averages
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD
NBC: 4.94 million
American Ninja Warrior 5.27, Dateline NBC 4.61
ABC: 4.28 million
The Bachelorette 5.44, The Proposal 3.11
CBS: 3.43 million
Mom 4.25, Life in Pieces 3.47, Salvation 2.61, Elementary 3.38
FOX: 2.28 million
So You Think You Can Dance 2.60, 9-1-1 1.95
CW: 1.17 million
Penn & Teller: Fool Us 1.46, Whose Line Is It Anyway? 1.06, Whose Line Is It Anyway? 0.98
TELE: 0.94 million
Exation 0.63 Sin senos si paraiso 0.95, El Senor de los Cielos 1.24
Monday A18-49: ABC 1.1/5, NBC 1.0/5, TELE 0.6/3, FOX 0.5/2, CBS 0.5/2, CW 0.3/1
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Pamela Post, formerly Senior Vice President Programming and Head of West Coast for MTV, VHI and Logo, was promoted to Head of Scripted for MTV, VHI and Logo.
Brandlive hired Jeff Allen, previously Global Head of Strategy and Partnerships for Brightcove, as Chief Executive Officer.
Erin McCallion was appointed Vice President for US Marketing at Outbrain. She joins from Mediaocean, where she served as Vice President of Global Marketing.
CBS upped Russ Berhman from Senior Vice President to Executive Vice President, Ad Sales Strategy, Planning and Administration. He replaces Dean Kaplan who is retiring.
This Day in History: 1981 – Music video network MTV launched.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which show won the first Emmy for Outstanding Morning Program? Good Morning America and Today Show shared the inaugural award in 2007. Kudos to: Gary Bixenspan-TV Marketing Inc/NYC; Cherie Wall-Sandbox Entertainment/Nashville, TV; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank, CA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/Los Angeles, CA; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/St. Andrews, Fife/Scotland.
Today’s Trivia Question: Which TV family’s home was the exterior shot used for the Dragonfly Inn that Lorelai and Sookie bought and renovated on Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four.)
Answer to Our Last Anagram: Glib Man In Lunch = Bill Cunningham. Kudos to: Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton, FL; Charlene White-A+E Networks/Stamford, CT; Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, CA.
Today’s Classic Comedy Anagram: Knitted for Serfs (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.)