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What follows are the fast affiliate results for Friday, October 7 broken out by network and by each half-hour. Keep in mind, of course, that results for any live sporting event are always approximate.
-Total Viewers:
CBS: 9.15 million, ABC: 4.39, NBC: 3.83, Fox: 2.56, CW: 790,000
-Adults 18-49:
CBS: 1.2 rating/5 share, ABC: 1.0/ 4, Fox: 0.8/ 3, NBC: 0.7/ 3, CW: 0.2/ 1
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-Winners:
Hawaii Five-O (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS)
-Fading:
Shark Tank (ABC)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
iHeartRadio Music Festival (CW), Dr. Ken (ABC), Dateline (NBC), Hell’s Kitchen (Fox), The Exorcist (Fox), 20/20 (ABC)
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8:00 p.m.
ABC – Last Man Standing
Viewers: 5.60 million (#2), A18-49: 1.1/ 5 (#1t)
CBS – MacGyver
Viewers: 8.00 (#1) million (#2), A18-49: 1.1/ 5 (#1t)
NBC – Timeless (R)
Viewers: 3.32 million (#3), A18-49: 0.6/ 3 (#4)
Fox – Hell’s Kitchen
Viewers: 3.17 million (#4), A18-49: 1.0/ 4 (#3)
CW – iHeartRadio Music Festival
Viewers: 856,000 (#5), A18-49: 0.2/ 1 (#5)
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8:30 p.m.
ABC – Dr. Ken
Viewers: 3.93 million (#2), A18-49: 0.9/ 4 (#2t)
CBS – MacGyver
Viewers: 8.34 (#1) million (#2), A18-49: 1.2/ 5 (#1)
NBC – Timeless (R)
Viewers: 3.05 million (#3t), A18-49: 0.5/ 2 (#4)
Fox – Hell’s Kitchen
Viewers: 3.05 million (#3t), A18-49: 0.9/ 4 (#2t)
CW – iHeartRadio Music Festival
Viewers: 800,000 (#5), A18-49: 0.3/ 1 (#5)
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9:00 p.m.
ABC – Shark Tank
Viewers: 4.66 million (#2), A18-49: 1.1/ 4 (#2)
CBS – Hawaii Five-O
Viewers: 9.53 million (#1), A18-49: 1.3/ 5 (#1)
NBC – Dateline
Viewers: 3.90 million (#3), A18-49: 0.7/ 3 (#3t)
Fox – The Exorcist
Viewers: 2.11 million (#4), A18-49: 0.7/ 3 (#3t)
CW – iHeartRadio Music Festival
Viewers: 778,000 (#5), A18-49: 0.2/ 1 (#5)
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9:30 p.m.
ABC – Shark Tank
Viewers: 4.94 million (#2), A18-49: 1.1/ 4 (#2)
CBS – Hawaii Five-O
Viewers: 9.67 million (#1), A18-49: 1.3/ 5 (#1)
NBC – Dateline
Viewers: 4.15 million (#3), A18-49: 0.7/ 3 (#3)
Fox – The Exorcist
Viewers: 1.92 million (#4), A18-49: 0.6/ 2 (#4)
CW – iHeartRadio Music Festival
Viewers: 728,000 (#5), A18-49: 0.2/ 1 (#5)
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10:00 p.m.
ABC – 20/20
Viewers: 3.73 million (#3), A18-49: 0.8/ 3 (#3)
CBS – Blue Bloods
Viewers: 9.80 (#1) million (#2), A18-49: 1.2/ 4 (#1)
NBC – Dateline
Viewers: 4.23 million (#2), A18-49: 0.8/ 3 (#3)
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10:30 p.m.
ABC – 20/20
Viewers: 3.46 million (#3), A18-49: 0.7/ 3 (#3)
CBS – Blue Bloods
Viewers: 9.56 (#1) million (#2), A18-49: 1.1/ 5 (#1)
NBC – Dateline
Viewers: 4.31 million (#2), A18-49: 0.9/ 4 (#3)
Source: Nielsen Media Research
FROM CBS
CBS Friday Live + Same Day Rating Highlights
“HAWAII FIVE-0” TOPS FRIDAY IN A18-49 AND A25-54
“Blue Bloods” is #1 in Viewers
“MacGyver” Sweeps its Time Period in Viewers and Demos
For the Third Straight Week
CBS Wins Friday in Viewers, A18-49 and A25-54
For The Third Consecutive Week
· At 8:00 PM, MACGYVER was first in viewers (8.17m), A18-49 (1.1) and A25-54 (1.7) for the third straight week.
· At 9:00 PM, HAWAII FIVE-0 was first in viewers (9.61m), A18-49 (1.3, nc) and A25-54 (2.0 up +5% from 1.9). HAWAII FIVE-0 was Friday’s highest rated broadcast in A18-49 and A25-54.
· At 10:00 PM, BLUE BLOODS was first in viewers (9.68m), A18-49 (1.2) and A25-54 (1.7). BLUE BLOODS was the night’s #1 program in viewers.
· For the night, CBS was first in viewers (9.15m), A18-49 (1.2) and A25-54 (1.8) for the third consecutive week.
Domination by CBS in absentia of the other networks…
Dr. Ken in particular is extremely weak and is part of the dozen shows Channing Dungey should have axed.
As you pointed out, MacGyver continues to slide.
That one guy from Shark Tank has been feuding with Trump. Wonder if that is hurting the show?
Exorcist is a superb show. Sadly I know it will not be renewed. It would have been an epic fit on a cable network or even an online outlet
I would move The Exorcist to Sunday at 9 p.m. and air The Simpsons and Family Guy in the 8 p.m. hour. A lot of people like The Exorcist, and look how well The X-Files did there for years.
Very true. I remember Millennium doing well on Friday for Fox too but they axed that for whatever strange reason.
Millenium was the eagerly-awaited sister show of The X-Files and debuted to great numbers which quickly went down as the show was quite soporific.
It was renewed for a second season where it did better (at least artistically) under the guidance of James Wong and Glenn Morgan but FOX told them they’d be canceled only to keep it alive (with Wong and Morgan leaving) and having the end of the world unwound unconvincingly to make space for a so-so crime show with little in common with the early concept and the ratings dipped some more.
Today they’d keep it for 12 seasons of course… 😉 🙁
I can’t argue that season 2 was the best. That season finale though. Just wow. Plus the ever so epic episode of the three devils having a coffee and exploring their lives was creative genius. I wish the duo hung around for season 3 because it took a dive. So for me, it is Season 2, 1 and 3. I still love the show though.
Another concept that could work on Friday is game shows. I loved “Greed” when it was on FOX.
Morgan and Wong dared the last episode of season 2 because they “knew” they weren’t coming back. The season had a focus and coherence that was missing from the show before they took it over.
Not coincidentally, I’d also argue that The X-Files suffered immensely when they left and the few shows they wrote afterwards were mostly intriguing (like Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man), although Chris Carter fell in love with “very special shows” and comedic interludes to the detriment of the overall show IMO.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched the devils’ episode as I’d grown weary of Darin Morgan’s comedy episodes by that time.
Not sure that many people like The Exorcist as the ratings plead to the contrary…
The slide keeps continuing. Big part of it is the programs themselves but an equally large problem is the promotional angle. If I’m Fox, this lineup would have debuted post baseball and I’m still scratching my head as to why they think Ramsey should remain a regular season option. Last Man Standing, despite declines is able to find a pulse for ABC here. I’m guessing it will get dropped after this season along with Ken and ABC will move Shark Tank up an hour. The question is whether that will actually be a worse option a year from now. I’m a big fan of staggering the fall launches these days dues to the large amount of options out there and Friday is a night I wouldn’t even be premiering until about next week.
I am unsure why they even dropped Cristella. It had good ratings behind LMS. IF they dropped both Ken and Last Man STanding now, that leaves an entire hour void to fill. And Friday seems already hard enough for them to program as it is.
I would have given Cristella more time.
I’d argue this is already a void.
The fact Channing Dungey & Co. can’t find a good show to save their network should not obscure that.
It all goes back to program quality as you pointed out. 🙂
The Big Fall Premiere Week existed in part to create excitement with the viewing public and nobody dared miss it for fear the public would be captured by the competition.
These days, Premiere Week is Big Yawn Week because of the “quality” of the shows, so you’re right, the downside to missing it is no longer much of an issue.
On Fridays being left out, I am against all ideas that relegate Fridays to a place where you put the shows you don’t like as it is what happened to Saturdays to disastrous effects as network heads concluded that people not watching their least-liked and least-promoted shows on Saturdays meant they didn’t want to watch TV on Saturdays.