Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Ratings: big two stumble

I'm going to title these posts "Ratings" instead of "Syndies", because I've been covering other shows and networks besides syndication.

Summer beckons and ratings soften for broadcast TV. The top two syndicated game shows weren't immune to the trend in the week of June 11-17. Pat and Vanna were particularly hard hit, as TVNewsCheck reports...

Wheel of Fortune 5.9 - down a couple ticks to a season low
Jeopardy 5.1 - down a couple ticks in sympathy with the soulmate
Family Feud 3.1 - up a tick
Millionaire 2.3 - up a tick from the previous week's season low

Despite her mild recovery, Meredith still just missed TV by the Numbers' top 25 syndie list. The viewership averages for the other three shows: Wheel of Fortune 9.0 million, Jeopardy 7.7 million, Family Feud 4.4 million.

TVNewser posted cable rankers for the latest month and quarter. GSN scored very good averages for June: 331K/254K viewers prime time/total day. Thank you, Mr. Harvey. For all of second quarter the averages were still okay but not quite as good: 296K/233K.

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