Douglas has posted GSN viewer numbers for April 23-26 (see the sidebar for links). Let's just say the network has enjoyed better days. I slapped some gloom-and-doom on the GSN Schedule board...The prime time/total day averages:
April 23 182K/178K
April 24 128K/137K
April 25 228K/237K
April 26 284K/235K
These are some of the worst GSN ratings I've seen in years, since the network broke the 70-million household barrier. The Sunday numbers look like misprints (yes, I know it's Easter). And the total day numbers don't even include some of the low-rated hours at 8:00 AM and 3:00 AM.
If these numbers continue for much longer at all, I look for a major shakeup. At least the endless repeats of Improv-a-Ganza and Love Triangle should get cut back. Remember, GSN averaged 362K viewers in prime time for all of the first quarter.
I'm not heartbroken that GSN's experiments with a talk show and a comedy show have been less than a runaway success. Maybe GSN might get back to being a game show network.
In a perfect world where the network didn't have so much money sunk into Carey's comedy calamity, I would just restore the March schedule before Power of 10 showed up. That schedule was producing very acceptable prime time and total day averages...368K/282K for all of February, for instance. But GSN has to grind through the first-runs for Drew and Wendy.
Other poster: By the way, what do you think of Match Game's ratings it got on weekends at 9am (131k, and 122k, for Saturday and Sunday).
Okay, I guess, but I was more impressed with Whammy getting 204K on Saturday. Considering the godawful weekend averages, that's a real good number at 9:30AM. In fact, it was better than the prime time average for Saturday.
And the highest-rated hour on the lost weekend was, you guessed it, the Karn/O'Hurley duo at 3:00PM Saturday.
UPDATE: Alex Davis tweeted that he got the GSN schedule pdfs for May: "GSN released schedules through may. No changes will be made. Have to give stuff time to grow. Hopefully Improv does."
Alex is the die-hardiest fan of Improv-a-Ganza on the planet. So what if it averaged 139K viewers for three runs on Saturday, 132K for four runs on Sunday, 164K at 11:00PM on Monday and Tuesday, and 118K at 2:00AM on Monday and Tuesday? We love it! But then he tweeted: "Catch 21 and 1 VS 100 return to GSN on May 2nd, a week earlier than planned."
Does this mean Power of 10 is gone from weekdays, with Alfonso and Carrie Ann taking the 5:00PM slot? Well, we all know about not trusting the pdfs. Alex hasn't yet posted any of the schedules beyond May 1. And if these barf-worthy numbers for Drew and Wendy repeats continue, the pdfs beyond May 1 may not be worth much, anyway.
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