Hoops and the sun do in syndies

Daylight Savings Time and NCAA hoops preemptions hurt all syndies in the week of March 12-18. Our four game shows didn't escape the damage. TVNewsCheck brings the bad news...

Wheel of Fortune 6.9 - down a couple ticks
Jeopardy 5.4 - down a whopping six ticks, what's with that, Alex?
Family Feud 2.8 - down a tick
Millionaire 2.4 - down a tick

TV by the Numbers provides the viewership averages: Wheel of Fortune 10.9 million (weekend repeat 4.2 million), Jeopardy 8.4 million, Family Feud 4.0 million. Meredith just slipped off the top 25 list again.

Douglas Pucci posts another set of GSN viewer numbers for the March 12-18 week. I can see why they're shaking things up. It was another bad week with 276K/214K prime time/total day averages.