Thursday, November 29, 2012

Ratings: nice times for most syndies

Syndie game shows got mostly good news in the week of November 12-18. In fact, there were three season highs as viewership levels rose while the nights got longer and colder. TVNewsCheck brings the nice numbers...

Wheel of Fortune 7.2 - up a couple ticks to a season high
Jeopardy 6.3 - down a tick but hardly doing terribly
Family Feud 4.7 - up a tick to new high for the entire syndie run since 1999
Millionaire 2.4 - up a tick for a show that needs this season high
Let's Ask America 1.8 - a decent rating in its seven markets
Baggage 1.1 - flat for tailender Jerry

The top four shows made the syndie list at TV by the Numbers. The viewership averages: Wheel of Fortune 11.3 million (wow!), Jeopardy 9.6 million, Family Feud 7.1 million, Millionaire 3.3 million. Gee, Pat and Vanna lure lots of viewers even in the 500-channel universe. The show will probably top 12 million before too long.

GSN averaged 315K/233K viewers prime time/total day for the entire month of November. Not bad but noticeably lower than when American Bible Challenge was romping and stomping. As a faux tweet noted, Sony has acquired majority ownership of the network in a transaction that valued all of GSN at $1.3 billion.

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