For the week ending April 3, Nielsen made a change in its syndication ratings. You can read the Broadcasting & Cable story for the gory details. Basically, the new ratings make everybody look better. So syndicated game shows all showed nice jumps, none more so than Family Feud. The glad tidings...Wheel of Fortune 7.0 - up five ticks
Jeopardy 6.0 - up a couple ticks
Millionaire 2.5 - also up a couple ticks, everybody's happy!
Family Feud 2.5 - up a whopping eight ticks, some are even happier than others!
5th Grader 1.0 - up a couple ticks even if it's on the way out
Lyrics 1.0 - up three ticks but also gone
The syndies wish Nielsen could give them such a present every week. TV by the Numbers hasn't posted its top 25 list yet. They've been very late with it for several weeks now. If and when they post the list, I'll provide the viewership averages.
The site finally got around to the syndies. Thanks to the new Nielsen ratings, Family Feud made the top 25 list for the first time, slipping just ahead of Millionaire. The viewership averages: Wheel of Fortune 11.2 million, Jeopardy 9.3 million, Family Feud 3.8 million, Millionaire 3.5 million. All four look healthy, so syndicated game shows aren't dead yet despite a couple of upcoming losses.
In the last week (April 4-10) before Drew and Wendy premiered, TVNewser reports that GSN racked up 336K/265K viewership averages for prime time/total day. Nothing special by recent standards. Next week's numbers with Improv-a-Ganza and Love Triangle should be very interesting, as Arte Johnson used to say.
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