Cable television:
Posted by Brett Clendaniel on May 1, 2013 at 9:10 pm
USA Network has issued the following:
Driven by original hits like Suits (pictured), USA is the most watched cable network in Q1 for the eighth-consecutive year,
marking a victory no other cable entertainment network has ever achieved.
For the eighth-consecutive year, USA is the No. 1 cable network among total viewers (3 million) and P25-54 (1.2 million) in the first quarter, earning it the distinction as the most-watched network. Marking a victory no other cable entertainment network has achieved before, this is the 27th quarter that USA is No. 1 in total viewers (P2+). Below are highlights from the quarter:
- USA’s original award-nominated drama Suits was the #1 series on cable Thursday nights in 1Q13, with 5.5 million total viewers and was the top show in P25-54, with more than 2 million viewers.
- ·In its seventh season, Psych is currently delivering 8% more total viewers P2+ (3.5 million) and P18-34 (740,000) than the comparable episodes in 2012, while holding strong in P18-49 (1.5 million) and P25-54 (1.5 million).
- ·Psych is the #1 scripted hour on cable on Wednesdays for social media mentions in 1Q during its run, with a substantial 57% increase in mentions versus last winter’s run. USA has fueled this success by activating fans across mobile, web and social channels.* During the Psych Slumber Party on Friday, February 15, nearly a million viewers stayed up all night to watch and digitally interact with fan-selected episodes, delivering the best day ever in social media activity for any USA original. For the premiere on Wednesday, February 27, the network engaged fans on all platforms, driving the Twitter hashtag #psychisback, to trend worldwide and nationally past the episode’s close.
- ·WWE Monday Night Raw made USA the #1 cable network in its Monday 8p-11p timeslot across all key demos in 1Q13. The series saw double digit gains over its 4Q12 performance in all key demos: up 20% in P18-49 (2.3 million), 18% in P25-54 (2.3 million), 14% in P18-34 (1.2 million) and up 16% in total viewers P2+ (4.9 million) in 1Q13 versus 4Q12.
- ·USA Network boasts a strong portfolio of acquired series, including the most-watched acquired series on cable in 1Q13: NCIS – with 3.1 million total viewers P2+ and Law & Order: SVU (2.3 million). These series are also two of the top five acquired series on cable for both P18-49 and P25-54. NCIS was up double digits, gaining 11% in total viewers P2+ (3.1 million) and 10% in P25-54 (980,000) in 1Q13, compared to 4Q12. SVU also recorded double digit growth, gaining 11% in P18-49 (875,000) and P25-54 (899,000) and 17% in P18-34 (457,000) in 1Q13 versus 4Q12.
Posted by Brett Clendaniel on January 15, 2013 at 6:46 pm
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The 20th Anniversary of WWE Raw on Monday, January 14 scored a 3.24 rating, up one-tenth from last week’s 3.14 rating for The Rock’s return. Last week’s Raw faced the BCS National Title game; this week was the first Raw unopposed by football in five months.
- Raw averaged 4.55 million viewers, which was up three percent from an average of 4.42 million viewers last week.
However, the Viewership Drop-Off returned. The third hour was the least-watched hour of the show, drawing slightly fewer viewers than the first hour.
But, in the demographic ratings, the third hour was the highest rated among key males for Ric Flair’s TV appearance, John Cena vs. Dolph Ziggler in a cage, and the Rock Concert.
Hourly Break Down: 4.50 million first hour viewers, peak of 4.68 million second hour viewers, and a five percent drop-off to 4.47 million third hour viewers.
It marks 24 out of 26 Raw episodes during the three-hour era where third hour viewership has declined from the second hour.
- On cable TV Monday night, Raw ranked #1 in overall viewers and in the key male demos, removing football from the competition.
In the week-to-week demos, Raw was up slightly compared to last week. The biggest increase was one-tenth among males 18-49, which reached the highest rating since August 27.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on January 9, 2013 at 6:21 pm
The final rating for Monday’s RAW was a 3.1 cable rating, which is the best number since August 27th. The rating is a very positive one, due to the BSC Championship game between Alabama and Notre Dame being the second most watched show in the history of cable television.
The expectations for next week’s ratings are high, due to there being no competition from football.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on December 30, 2012 at 10:23 am
This week’s Smackdown scored 54,125 in social media activity, which is well-below Smackdown’s fall season average. On cable TV Friday night, Smackdown ranked #3 behind Nick programming and ESPN’s Virginia Tech vs. Rutgers bowl game according to Trendrr.TV.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on November 29, 2012 at 2:07 pm
WWE executive Stephanie McMahon has been recognized as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Cable” by CableFAX magazine for a third time. A breakfast for the 2012 honorees will be held Dec. 5, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The complete list of honorees is available here.
Stephanie is responsible for all the creative development of WWE as it pertains to television and pay-per-view programming, print, digital and social media content.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on November 28, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Monday’s Raw averaged 3,920,000 over the course of three hours, up from 3,835,000 for last week’s post-Survivor Seriesshow. The first hour garnered 4,147,000 viewers, with hour two slightly dropping 4,126,000. The third hour, however, saw a sharp decline, dropping to 3,488,000 viewers.
The final rating is expected to be released later today. Last week’s show drew a 2.73, which marked as the fifth lowest-rated episode of Raw in history and the fourth fewest number of viewers for a non-holiday episode in the past fifteen years.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on November 7, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Tuesday’s SmackDown special scored 70,081 in social activity, which compares to 93,624 on July 3 for a Fourth of July edition, 86,846 on April 10 for a Legends Night edition, and 94,570 on February 21.
Smackdown ranked #10 on cable TV, trailing Election Night coverage on CNN (#1), Fox News (#2), MSNBC (#3), other cable channels, and BET (#7). Among non-election programming, SpongeBob on Nick took #8, Sons of Anarchy on FX took #9, and Smackdown took #10.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on October 30, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Monday’s episode of Raw scored a 2.94 rating for all three hours and a 2.90 rating for the standard two-hour block.
Raw averaged 4.31 million viewers for the first hour, 4.22 million for the second, then 3.78 million for the third. Overall, Raw averaged 4.10 million viewers, which was above the previous two weeks.
All of cable TV was down last night, mainly due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on October 8, 2012 at 8:01 pm
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WWE Smackdown on Friday, October 5 scored a 1.74 rating, which was a near-year-low for a first-run Friday episode. Smackdown was down five percent from a 1.83 rating the previous week, which was down six percent from a 1.95 rating two weeks ago.
The poor rating completed one of the worst weeks for pro wrestling on TV in recent history. After Monday’s Raw dropped to an alarmingly low 2.5 rating, TNA’s flagship Impact show dropped to a year-low 0.84 rating. Smackdown followed up with the second-lowest-rated first-run Friday show of the year.
Smackdown averaged 2.39 million viewers, which was the fewest of the year for a first-run Friday episode. The first Smackdown of October was down nine percent from last week’s show and Smackdown has lost 567,000 viewers (19 percent) since the first show of September.
Smackdown was opposed by MLB’s doubleheader Wild Card games, which included the controversial end to the Atlanta vs. St. Louis game, and averaged 5.3 million viewers. On cable TV Friday night, Smackdown ranked #11 in overall viewers, #12 among males 18-34, and #4 among males 18-49, which are all close to year-lows.
In the key demographic ratings, Smackdown took a hit among younger males and all adults 18-34. Smackdown hit a year-low for a first-run Friday show in males 12-34 and nearly hit a year-low in teen males 12-17. Adults 18-34 was way down 26 percent from last week to the lowest first-run Friday rating of the year.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on October 2, 2012 at 6:48 pm
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WWE Raw on Monday, October 1 scored a year-low 2.54 rating for all three hours, which is down seven percent from a near-year-low 2.72 rating last week. The standard two-hour rating was actually lower at a 2.53 rating.
Raw’s previous low was a 2.40 rating on the Fourth of July 2011. Before that, Raw scored a 2.49 rating the day before Christmas 2007.
- Raw averaged 3.50 million viewers, which was down 285,000 viewers (7.5 percent) compared to last week and the fewest viewers in over five years. All three hours were about the same, ranging from 3.43 to 3.60 million viewers.
Hourly Breakdown: 3.44 million first hour viewers, an increase to 3.60 million second hour viewers, and a now-typical third hour decline to 3.47 million viewers.
- On cable TV Monday night, Raw ranked #3 behind Monday Night Football, which was up three percent to 16.6 million viewers for Cowboys vs. Bears, and “Major Crimes” on TNT. In the key male demos, Raw ranked #2 behind Monday Night Football, which drew six times as many males 18-49 as Raw did.
- In Raw’s weekly demos, the show registered year-lows in males 12-34, males 18-49, males 18-34, adults 18-49, and adults 18-34.
The drop-offs from last week were very noticeable, as males 12-34 was down two-tenths of a rating, males 18-49 was down 17 percent, and males 18-34 was down three-tenths of a rating.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on September 13, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Just days before it came out that the WWE Network may end up with a HBO-style model, sources close to the Network revealed that the new direction might just be a Hulu channel instead.
The idea would be that the Network launches on Hulu and in a few years, if things turn around with the economy and cable industry, then maybe the Network could jump to basic cable like WWE originally planned. Unlike current plans, which would involve considerable outlay on WWE’s part, the Hulu idea would see Hulu paying WWE seed money for the channel – rumored to be tens of millions of dollars.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on September 8, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Friday’s WWE Smackdown episode scored 77,771 in social media activity, which was down 20 percent from last week. It was the lowest total since July 27 against the Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Smackdown ranked #2 on cable TV Friday night, trailing “Stand Up 2 Cancer” coverage.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on September 4, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Monday’s episode of WWE Raw scored 295,822 in social media activity, which was the lowest score of the last five weeks. Raw was down 21 percent compared to last week’s score of 376,761.
The show ranked #2 on the cable TV charts for the third consecutive week, trailing “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” on VH1.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on September 1, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Friday’s WWE Smackdown did 97,055 in social media activity, which was down 10 percent compared to last week’s 2012-high, but was in the Top 5 for the year.
Smackdown topped the Friday cable TV social media chart for the third consecutive week.
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Posted by Brett Clendaniel on August 28, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Monday’s WWE RAW had a Trendrr.tv social media score of 376,761, up a sharp 18% from last week’s post-SummerSlam episode and even with two weeks ago.
Raw ranked #2 on cable TV Monday night, trailing “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” again, which had twice the social media activity that RAW had
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