RATINGS
The premiere on Sunday of Fox’s Ghosted drew 3.6 million viewers and 1.4 among A18-49. CBS’s Wisdom of the Crowd also scored 1.4 in the demo, corralling 8.9 million total viewers. ABC’s Ten Days in the Valley premiered to 3.5 million viewers and .6 among A18-49.
Science Channel set a primetime record, with its highest-rated 3Q ever among total viewers P2+. Among A25-54, the net tied its highest third quarter, and was up +6% over 3Q16. In total day, 3Q17 ranked as Science’s highest rated ever among Adults and W25-54 (9- +9% and +13%).
During 3Q17, Velocity had its most-watched third quarter ever and its most-watched September ever among key demos including P25-54, M25-54, P18+ and M18+ and P/M2+ in Primetime. Velocity also earned its 20th consecutive quarter of year-over-year Primetime and Total Day delivery growth among P18+.
ID broke into the top 10 ad-supported cable networks in prime among P25-54 for L+3 delivery in September. Year-to-date and for 3Q17, ID is the #1 ad-supported cable network in total day among both P25-54 and W25-54, holding its spot in the top 5 ad-supported cable networks in prime among W25-54 year-to-date, 3Q and September. ID had its best 3Q ever in prime and total day across all key demos, delivering more than 1 million P2+ in prime.
NIELSEN SOCIAL CONTENT RATINGS: Top Series and Specials by Total Interactions for the week of September 25, 2017
Program, Total Interactions (000), Facebook (000), Twitter (000)
This Is Us (NBC) 1577, 1333, 244
Will & Grace (NBC) 1339, 1138, 201
Empire (Fox) 1192, 1021, 170
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 880, 531, 349
The Voice (NBC) 552, 452, 100
WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) 396, 173, 223
Saturday Night Live (NBC) 381, 149, 232
The Good Doctor (ABC) 285, 223, 62
How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) 257, 107, 150
The Voice (NBC) 237, 194, 43
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 10 U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of September 25, 2017
Program, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (000)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros.) 8452, 109, 78, 150269
E! News (E!) 6821, 837, 8, 30867
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 3268, 90, 36, 30169
TMZ (Warner Bros.) 2192, 1154, 2, 13696
The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 1802, 121, 15, 15337
Today Show (NBC) 1767, 645, 3, 12128
Saturday Night Live (NBC) 1410, 91, 15, 10638
Dancing With the Stars (ABC) 1381, 133, 10, 9151
The Voice NBC) 1333, 300, 4, 23452
Good Morning America (ABC) 1284, 560, 2, 12132
Based on Total Actions (reactions, comments, shares and retweets)
Top 10 Basic Cable Network Live+7 Performance among Total Viewers for the week of September 11, 2017
Primetime (000)/Total Prog. Day (000)
ESPN 2834/FOXN 1368
FOXN 2122/NICK 1186
USA 1843/ESPN 1049
MSNBC 1612/ADSM* 919
HGTV 1453/MSNBC 854
HIST 1219/HGTV 802
NFLN 1187/CNN 746
TBSC 1182/ID 743
ID 1111/USA 717
ADSM 1017/NAN* 711
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 116,600,000 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. Primetimes is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performances.
Top 10 Basic Cable Network Live+7 Performance among A18-49 for the week of September 11, 2017
Primetime (000)/Total Prog. Day (000)
ESPN 1307/ADSM* 591
USA 745/ESPN 525
ADSM 636/NAN* 378
NFLN 571/NICK 370
FX 557/USA 275
TBSC 548/ID 259
CMDY 398/TOON 250
VH1 397/TBSC 243
A&E 396/HGTV 227
MTV 384/CMDY 218
Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data. All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 116,600,000 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. Primetimes is Mon-Sat 8p-11p and Sun 7p-11p. Total day is Mon-Sun 6a-6a for household and demographic performances.
Top-Rated Cable Shows among 18-48 for the week of September 11, 2017 (000)
New Orleans/Minnesota (ESPN) 5443
LA Chargers/Denver (ESPN) 5104
Rick & Morty (ADSM) 3965
Houston/Cinncinatti (NFLN) 3958
American Horror Story (FX) 3725
South Park (CMDY) 2363
Teen Mom II (MTV) 1978
Love & Hip Hop Hollywood (VH1) 1798
NFL Total Access (NFLN) 1788
The Sinner (USA) 1738
Live + Same Day Household Viewers (millions): Friday, September 29, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 8.46 million
MacGyver 6.69, Hawaii Five-0 8.64, Blue Bloods 10.04
NBC: 4.44 million
Law & Order True Crime 2.99, Dateline 5.17 million
ABC: 3.48 million
Inhumans 3.75, 20/20 2.95
FOX: 2.30 million
Hell’s Kitchen 3.02, The Exorcist 1.58
TELEMUNDO: 1.12 million
Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio .92, Sin Senos si Hay Paraiso 1.17, El Senor de los Cielos 1.22
CW: .95 million
Masters of Illusion .93, Masters of Illusion .99, Masters of Illusion .92, Masters of Ilusion .95
UNIVISION .93 million
Enamorandome de Ramon .92, Mi Marido tie Familia 1.06, Hoy Voy a Cambiar .81
Friday A18-49: CBS 1.0/4, ABC .8/3, NBC .7/3, FOX .7/3, TELE .7/3, UNI .4/2, CW .2/1
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
A+E Networks appointed Francisco Guijon as Senior Vice President, Americas. Previously, Guijon served as Programming, Content & Ad Sales Director at Liberty Global.
David Weiss has joined influencer marketing firm D S Simon Media as Vice President, Client Services. Weiss has held senior management roles with Vidicom, Medialink and the WTN News Agency.
Experiential, events and marketing agency iDEKO Productions tapped Melissa Davidson to serve as Vice President, Business Development, with a focus on entertainment properties. Davidson recently served as Head of Consumer Marketing for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
Fox Networks Group announced it’s growing its Global Solutions team with the additions of Geoff Lester as Senior Vice President and Aaron Lilly as Vice President of Global Solutions for Advertising Sales. Lester was previously Head of Partnerships & Business Development at StubHub, while Lilly was VP, Client Strategy in NBCUniversal’s Client Partnerships group.
Discovery Communications hired Russ McCarroll as Senior Vice President, Production and Development, for Discovery Channel. McCarroll most recently served as the SVP of Programming and Development for History Channel.
This Day in History: 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln named the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: What was the first network prime time series to air solely in color? The Marriage (1953-54), starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. Kudos to: Holly Hearn-H2 Concierge Marketing/Sarasota, FL, Greg Stewart/LA, David Garber-Loyola Marymount University/Playa Vista, CA, Jim Katz-Radcliffe Road Pictures/LA
Today’s Trivia Question: For which TV show did writer/producer Sherwood Schwartz win an Emmy? (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: Two Wormed Codfish = Wisdom of the Crowd. Kudos to: Paul Blutter-Walk and Talk Production Rentals/Burbank, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Deerfield Beach, FL
Classic Sitcom Anagram: Where Cow Hydrates (Email [email protected]; first three respondents with the correct answer who aren’t in trivia will be posted in tomorrow’s newsletter.)