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The ClubHouse: Big Brother 2000: Weekly Neilsen Ratings: Tables and Discussion
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Veggrrl444

Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 11:27 am Click here to edit this post

Yeah, my mom called me yesterday cussing my 14 yr old sister's dad because he bought her an Eminem CD. She said, "It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't say f8ck every other word"!! She was fuming!

Spoosh2000

Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 01:26 pm Click here to edit this post

Keep in mind that this week, ALL ratings are down due to the Olympics' magnitism.

:)

Also, last Wednesday's Live show, while yes, took 17th place, received 8.1 million viewers. The week before, even though the live show was ranked 12th instead of 17th, it only recieved 7.9 million viewers. The ranking numbers do not mean as much when actual millions are taken into account. Unfortunately, all the shows for this week are less than lasts week's in ratings due to those Crazy Olympics. The Olympics is such a funny little man....

Spoosh2000

Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 03:15 pm Click here to edit this post

Posted at 9:32 a.m. PDT Wednesday, September 20, 2000


Prime-time Nielsen ratings
The Associated Press

Prime-time ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Sept. 11-17. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with rating for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses.

An ``X'' in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation. The rating is the percentage of the nation's estimated 100.8 million TV homes. Each ratings point represents 1,008,000 households.

1. (X) ``Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony,'' NBC, 16.2, 16.58 million homes.

2. (2) ``Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Tuesday,'' ABC, 14.9, 15.20 million homes.

3. (X) ``Summer Olympics Sunday Prime 1,'' NBC, 14.6, 14.94 million homes.

4. (X) ``Summer Olympics Saturday Prime 1,'' NBC, 13.1, 13.41 million homes.

5. (3) ``Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Thursday,'' ABC, 12.7, 12.97 million homes.

6. (5) ``NFL Monday Night Football: New England Patriots at New York Jets,'' ABC, 12.2, 12.46 million homes.

7. (4) ``Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Sunday,'' ABC, 11.4, 11.62 million homes.

8. (10) ``NFL Monday Showcase,'' ABC, 10.0, 10.17 million homes.

9. (13) ``Law and Order,'' NBC, 9.6, 9.85 million homes.

10. (29) ``The West Wing,'' NBC, 8.8, 8.99 million homes.

11. (50) ``Law and Order-Monday,'' NBC, 8.6, 8.82 million homes.

12. (16) ``Everybody Loves Raymond,'' CBS, 8.4, 8.56 million homes.

13. (21) ``Dharma & Greg,'' ABC, 8.3, 8.46 million homes.

13. (7) ``Frasier,'' NBC, 8.3, 8.52 million homes.

13. (X) ``Peter Jennings Reporting: Family Business, Part 1,'' ABC, 8.3, 8.44 million homes.

16. (12) ''60 Minutes,'' CBS, 8.2, 8.42 million homes.

17. (29) ''20/20-Downtown,'' ABC, 8.1, 8.26 million homes.

17. (20) ``Big Brother-Wednesday,'' CBS, 8.1, 8.28 million homes.

19. (21) ``CBS Sunday Movie: Something to Talk About,'' CBS, 7.9, 8.05 million homes.

20. (25) ''60 Minutes II,'' CBS, 7.7, 7.87 million homes.

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21. ``E.R.,'' NBC, 7.5.

21. ``Will & Grace,'' NBC, 7.5.

23. ``Friends,'' NBC, 7.4

24. ``Dateline NBC-Wednesday,'' NBC, 7.3

25. ``Becker,'' CBS, 7.2

26. ``Dateline NBC-Tuesday,'' NBC, 7.0

27. ``Judging Amy,'' CBS, 6.9

28. (X) ``Just Shoot Me,'' NBC, 6.8

29. ``Hopkins 24/7,'' ABC, 6.7

30. ``The Practice,'' ABC, 6.6

30. ``Third Watch,'' NBC, 6.6

32. (X) ``Barbara Walters Special,'' ABC, 6.5

32. ``Big Brother-Monday,'' CBS, 6.5

32. ``Touched by an Angel,'' CBS, 6.5

35. (X) ``CBS-Thursday Movie: The Client,'' CBS, 6.4

36. ``The Drew Carey Show,'' ABC, 6.3

36. ``King of Queens,'' CBS, 6.3

36. ``The Simpsons,'' Fox, 6.3

39. ``Mysterious Ways,'' NBC, 6.1

40. ``Big Brother-Tuesday,'' CBS, 5.9

40. ``Whose Line is it Anyway?,'' ABC, 5.9

42. ``Malcolm in the Middle,'' Fox, 5.8

43. ``Big Brother-Thursday,'' CBS, 5.7

43. ``Spin City,'' ABC, 5.7

45. ``Family Law,'' CBS, 5.6

46. (X) ''70's: Decade Changed TV,'' ABC, 5.5

46. (X) ``Fox Movie: Dean Koontz: Sole Survivor, Part 1,'' Fox, 5.5

48. ``Norm,'' ABC, 5.3

49. (X) '' Latin Grammy Awards,'' CBS, 5.2

50. ``Fox Movie: Dean Koontz: Sole Survivor Part 2,'' Fox, 4.9

50. ``World Wrestling Federation Smackdown!,'' UPN, 4.9

52. ``America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back,'' Fox, 4.8

53. ``King of the Hill,'' Fox, 4.7

53. ``Whose Line is it Anyway?,'' ABC, 4.7

55. ``Cops 2: Albuquerque,'' Fox, 4.6

56. ``Big Brother-Friday,'' CBS, 4.5

56. ``Nash Bridges,'' CBS, 4.5

56. (X) ``Whose Line is it Anyway?-Friday 2,'' ABC, 4.5

56. (X) ``Whose Line is it Anyway?-Friday 3,'' ABC, 4.5

60. ``Norm,'' ABC, 4.4

60. ``Two Guys and a Girl,'' ABC, 4.4

62. (X) ``Whose Line is it Anyway?-Friday 4,'' ABC, 4.3

63. ``Big Brother-Saturday,'' CBS, 4.2

63. (X) ``That '70s Show,'' Fox, 4.2

65. ''3rd Rock from the Sun,'' NBC, 4.1

65. (X) ``David Blaine: Street Magic,'' ABC, 4.1

65. (X) ``Peter Jennings Reporting: Family Business, Part 2'','' ABC, 4.1

65. ``Walker, Texas Ranger,'' CBS, 4.1

69. ``That '70s Show 2,'' Fox, 4.0

69. (X) ``That '70s Show,'' Fox, 4.0

71. (X) ``Survivor,'' CBS, 3.9

71. (X) ``Whose Line is it Anyway?-Friday 1,'' ABC, 3.9

73. ``Cops: Fort Worth,'' Fox, 3.7

73. ``Ladies Man,'' CBS, 3.7

75. ``The Hughleys,'' UPN, 3.6

76. (X) ``Becker-Friday,'' CBS, 3.5

76. ``The Parkers,'' UPN, 3.5

76. (X) ``Survivor,'' CBS, 3.5

79. ``ABC Saturday Night Movie: Spy Hard,'' ABC, 3.4

79. ``Titus,'' Fox, 3.4

81. ``Ally McBeal,'' Fox, 3.2

81. ``Family Guy,'' Fox, 3.2

81. (X) ``Family Guy,'' Fox, 3.2

81. ``Girlfriends,'' UPN, 3.2

85. ``Moesha,'' UPN, 3.0

85. (X) ``Music Mania 2000,'' Fox, 2.8

87. ''7th Heaven,'' WB, 2.5

88. (X) ``Since You've Been Gone,'' Fox, 2.4

88. ``Star Trek: Voyager,'' UPN, 2.4

90. ``Charmed,'' WB, 2.3

91. ``Angel,'' WB, 2.1

91. ``The PJs,'' WB, 2.1

93. ``Buffy, the Vampire Slayer,'' WB, 2.0

93. ``Charmed 1,'' WB, 2.0

93. ``The Steve Harvey Show,'' WB, 2.0

96. ''7 Days,'' UPN, 1.9

96. ``The Jamie Foxx Show-Sunday,'' WB, 1.9

96. (X) ``Malcolm & Eddie,'' UPN, 1.9

96. (X) ``Malcolm & Eddie,'' UPN, 1.9

100. (X) ``Grown Ups,'' UPN, 1.8

101. ``The Jamie Foxx Show,'' WB, 1.7

101. (X) ``Moesha,'' UPN, 1.7

101. ``Roswell,'' WB, 1.7

104. ``Dawson's Creek,'' WB, 1.6

104. ``For Your Love,'' WB, 1.6

104. ``For Your Love-Sunday,'' WB, 1.6

107. ``Diagnosis Murder-Monday,'' Pax, 1.5

107. ``The Strip,'' UPN, 1.5

107. ``Touched by an Angel-Wednesday,'' Pax, 1.5

110. ``Secret Agent Man,'' UPN, 1.4

111. ``Diagnosis Murder-Tuesday,'' Pax, 1.3

111. ``Diagnosis Murder-Wednesday,'' Pax, 1.3

111. (X) ``The PJs,'' WB, 1.3

111. ``Popular,'' WB, 1.3

115. ``Baby Blues,'' WB, 1.2

115. ``Diagnosis Murder-Thursday,'' Pax, 1.2

115. ``It's a Miracle,'' Pax, 1.2

115. ``Touched by an Angel-Thursday,'' Pax, 1.2

115. ``Touched by an Angel-Tuesday,'' Pax, 1.2

120. ``Diagnosis Murder-Friday,'' Pax, 1.1

120. ``Felicity,'' WB, 1.1

120. ``Touched by an Angel-Monday,'' Pax, 1.1

123. ``Touched by an Angel-Friday,'' Pax, 1.0

123. ``Twice in a Lifetime,'' Pax, 1.0

125. (X) ``Miracle Pets 3,'' Pax, 0.9

125. ``Pax Big Event Sunday: Miracle Landing,'' Pax, 0.9

127. ``Encounters with the Unexplained,'' Pax, 0.8

127. ``It's a Miracle Encore,'' Pax, 0.8

127. ``Mysterious Ways,'' Pax 0.8

130. ``Encounters with the Unexplained Encore,'' Pax, 0.7

131. ``Twenty-One,'' Pax, 0.5

132. ``Mysterious Ways Encore,'' Pax, 0.3

132. ``Twice in a Lifetime Encore,'' Pax, 0.3

Bad_Murtl

Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 04:42 pm Click here to edit this post

The other way to look at it:

Sept. 11 - Sept. 17

Mon. 2nd place.
Tue. 2nd place.
Wed. 1st place, and rating increased from the 8 slot to the 8:30 slot.
Thu. 2nd place.
Fri. 2nd place.
Sat. 2nd place, then 3rd place, though the rating increased. Darn that second episode of "Cops"!

Viewership under 10 million, except for Wednesday.
Olympic damage evident in second half of week, about 25%.

Frome2u

Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 10:02 pm Click here to edit this post

Prime-time ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research for September 18-24. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with rating for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses.

An ``X'' in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation. The rating is the percentage of the nation's estimated 100.8 million TV homes. Each ratings point represents 1,008,000 households.

1. (X) ``Summer Olympics Sunday,'' NBC, 16.1, 164.83 million homes.

2. (X) ``Summer Olympics Tuesday,'' NBC, 15.5, 15.87 million homes.

3. (X) ``Summer Olympics Friday,'' NBC, 15.0, 15.29 million homes.

4. (X) ``Summer Olympics Thursday,'' NBC, 14.9, 15.23 million homes.

5. (X) ``Summer Olympics Wednesday,'' NBC, 14.6, 14.92 million homes.

6. (X) ``Summer Olympics Monday,'' NBC, 13.8, 14.08 million homes.

7. ``NFL Monday Night Football: Dallas at Washington,'' ABC, 13.5, 13.74 million homes.

7. (X) ``Summer Olympics Saturday,'' NBC, 13.5, 13.79 million homes.

9. (2) ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Tuesday,'' ABC, 12.4, 12.67 million homes.

10. (3) ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Thursday,'' ABC, 10.6, 10.82 million homes.

11. (4) ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Sunday,'' ABC, 10.1, 10.32 million homes.

11. (5) ``NFL Monday Showcase,'' ABC, 10.1, 10.34 million homes.

13. (12) ''60 Minutes,'' CBS, 9.9, 10.14 million homes.

14. (22) ``CBS Sunday Movie: L.A. Confidential,'' CBS, 7.8, 7.94 million homes.

14. (20) ``Dharma & Greg,'' ABC, 7.8, 7.98 million homes.

16. (X) ``Dharma & Greg,'' ABC, 7.4, 7.57 million homes.

17. (51) ''48 Hours-Monday,'' CBS, 6.9, 7.09 million homes.

18. (X) ``Fox Movie: The Nutty Professor,'' Fox, 6.7, 6.80 million homes.

19. (24) ``Big Brother-Wednesday,'' CBS, 6.5, 6.65 million homes.

20. (X) ''60 Minutes II,'' CBS, 6.3, 6.41 million homes.

Tlt22

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 07:23 am Click here to edit this post

The Saturday night ratings are awful, and personally I do have better things to do on Saturday night - So I tape it and watch it on Sunday! I can't wait to see how this week's Wed. and Friday shows rank.

Smashedkat

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 07:59 am Click here to edit this post

Why would CBS want to cancel this show. They are pulling in $500,000 at least via the banishment line in addition to the advertisements. The show is cheap to produce and they are absolutely tight with their final prizes. Ratings be damned.

Chrisp

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:08 pm Click here to edit this post

Week of Sept. 11-17

DateWeekdayBB Rating#1 Rating#1 ShowGraph BB #1
9/11/00Monday7.013.3Monday Night Football
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9/12/00Tuesday5.914.5WWTBA Millionaire
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9/13/00Wednesday7.99.3Law & Order
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9/14/00Thursday5.612.5WWTBA Millionaire
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9/15/00Friday4.718.8Olympics Opening Ceremonies
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9/16/00Saturday4.816.1Olympics
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(Sorry I'm so late with this!! Computer crashed last week...)

Chrisp

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:26 pm Click here to edit this post

Week of Sept. 18-24

DateWeekdayBB Rating#1 Rating#1 ShowGraph BB #1
9/18/00Monday6.016.5Olympics
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9/19/00Tuesday5.520.6Olympics
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9/20/00Wednesday6.618.5Olympics
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9/21/00Thursday5.417.2Olympics
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9/22/00Friday4.817.7Olympics
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9/23/00Saturday4.716.8Olympics
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This week, everything was crushed by the Olympics, not just BB!

Bad_Murtl

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 09:13 am Click here to edit this post

The other way to look at it.
(I know, advertisers pay for total viewers, not time-slot winners, but I think it's fun.)

The Olympics won every slot every night, except for one tiny slot on Sunday. And they say Olympics ratings are terrible... see what I mean?


Sept. 18-24

Mon. 2nd place (tie).

Tue. 3rd place (2nd was Millionaire).

Wed. 2nd then 3rd place (second half hour fell to Nutty Prof. on Fox.).

Thur. 2nd place.

Fri. 3rd place (2nd was "Money Talks" on Fox. Ouch!)

Sat. 3rd then 4th place. Double ouch!


Highest viewership 9.7 million, Wednesday.
I guess it's a youth show so has problems on the weekend. Don't forget Cassandra's chipper spin on the ratings. Ironic, considering her mythological name means "prophet of doom," or more accurately, "person who is right but not listened to."

Larrblue

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 12:08 am Click here to edit this post

I have a VERY different way of looking at it - if you go to the whole listing http://www.sjmercury.com/tv/nielsen/nnumbers.htm you will see that FOUR of the Big Brother shows last week were in the TOP 30. Only TWO were lower than that.

Reruns or not, Olympics or not, Big Brother is a hit (not a hit like Survivor, but a hit nonetheless). End of discussion.

Chrisp

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 07:20 pm Click here to edit this post

I'll post my final ratings table tomorrow morning. Thanks for following along, guys and gals! It's been a fun ride...

Bad_Murtl

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 07:51 pm Click here to edit this post

Larrblue, not to labor the point too much, but....

those 4 shows were mainly at the bottom of the top 30, and that's out of only 70 shows (not counting tiny networks).

Is it true CBS did well off the 900 calls? Posters have been claiming this...

Anyway, thanks to all and goodnight! See ya around the bend...

Mckryan

Monday, October 02, 2000 - 07:17 am Click here to edit this post

From Inside.com

RATINGS REPORT: Final Big Brother Outruns A Stumbling Olympics

By Tom Bierbaum
Monday , October 02 09:55 a.m.

Big Brother ended its undistinguished run on Friday with typically forgettable Nielsen results -- forgettable except that they were good enough to beat NBC's Olympics head-to-head in most key demographics.

Unfortunately for Brother, that had more to do with a stunning Friday collapse by the Olympics than any real surge for CBS's reality series. According to preliminary ''fast affiliate'' ratings for Sept. 29, the Big Brother finale averaged a 4.7 rating, 17 share in adults 18-49 and a 7.2/13 in homes, good enough to beat the Olympics that hour in adults 18-49 (4.7/17 vs. 4.3/15). Brother's margins were overwhelming in some other key demographics, such as adults 18-34 (with a 4.9 rating vs. a 3.1) and women 18-34 (5.8 vs. 2.8).

It wasn't as if Brother was beating the Olympics at their best, though. NBC's Friday and Saturday preliminary 8-11 p.m. household averages (10.6/20 and an 11.6/21 respectively) are the two worst 8-11 p.m. figures for any night of Olympics coverage since the opening Saturday of the 1988 Winter games from Calgary. Counting only summer games, these are the two lowest-rated nights since at least 1976.

That's dragged the Sydney households average all the way down to a 14.0/25, far short of the 16.1 rating guaranteed to some advertisers and the 17.5 NBC set as a goal for these games. Sydney will finish as the lowest-rated Olympics since Mexico City in 1968.

Big Brother managed a decent little Nielsen flourish at its conclusion -- its best non-Wednesday numbers to date in most demographic categories, with a 32 percent jump over the show's overall average in adults 18-34.

Brotherstill made no meaningful advance over its previous best Friday numbers (4.6/16 in 18-49, 7.9/15 in homes July 20) and came nowhere near the worst it ever did in a time slot following Survivor (7.7/21 in 18-49, 10.8/18 in homes Aug. 16).

The final verdict on Big Brother has to be a fairly positive one, though: the producers gave viewers a terrible show and still generated healthy demographic gains everywhere they tried it. If they can fix what went wrong with Big Brother 1 and hook up the new-and-improved version with Survivor this winter, the competition could still be in for a lot of trouble.

CBS hasn't made an official commitment for another round of Big Brother yet, but development is under way. As long as the show's Dutch production entity, Endemol, agrees to address the perceived problems with round one, it's going to be hard for CBS to turn its back on this property.

Entering Friday's finale, Brother had sparked increases compared with results in the same time slots one year earlier of 65 percent among adults 18-49 and 118 percent among adults 18-34. One can only imagine what CBS might have done this summer with even a modicum of genuine action or romantic tension on the show.

Big Brother has also helped keep the median age of CBS's audience below 50 for every week since the Survivor finale. Last season, CBS's regular schedule averaged a median age of 53.

As for the dive the Olympics took Friday and Saturday, part of the problem was something NBC had no control over -- the failure of Marion Jones to keep alive her drive for five gold medals into the weekend. That historic quest ended many hours before the Friday night telecast, when Jones settled for a bronze in the long jump. (Jones still made women's track history with five medals -- three gold and two bronze -- in a single Olympics.)

The biggest Friday-Saturday problem, though, appeared to be a lack of viewer interest in extended coverage of the U.S. men's basketball team and its final two games. Even with Saturday's gold-medal game representing the one and only live telecast during the entire games, viewers fled. The contest started at 10:15 p.m. Saturday, and by the 10:30-11 p.m. half hour, NBC's households rating tumbled by 25 percent compared with the 10-10:30 half hour (9.4/17 vs. 12.5/22). Granted, expecting viewers to stick with a two-hour event that starts at 10:15 p.m. is asking a lot, but if 10:15 p.m. isn't a good time for a live event, what about the 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. live telecast so many of NBC's critics were clamoring for?

Through Saturday, an estimated 182 million viewers had watched at least some of the Sydney coverage on NBC, CNBCand MSNBC.

The cable ratings highlight of recent days came with Wednesday's MSNBC 9 a.m.-to-5 p.m. coverage, featuring the women's soccer final (won by Norway over the U.S.). That segment averaged a 0.9 households rating in the MSNBC universe, more than quadrupling the service's third-quarter average for the time period of a 0.2.

With one night left to count, NBC's prime-time 14.0/25 average is running 21 percent below the 17.7/32 of the Seoul games in 1988, down 19 percent from the 17.3/33 of Barcelona in 1992 and down 35 percent from the 21.6/41 of Atlanta in 1996.

Bad_Murtl

Wednesday, October 04, 2000 - 11:44 am Click here to edit this post

The "other way" to look at the final week of ratings...

First, I'd like to note that my home-town out-of-town paper the Washington Post put BB in the "Winners" column this week.

Again, the Olympics won every time slot every night except for one early on Sunday night.

Sept. 25 - Oct. 1

Mon. 2nd place
Tue. 3rd place (Millionaire was 2nd)
Wed. 3rd place (Millionaire was 2nd)
Thu. 2nd place
Fri. 2nd place

Only on Friday was viewership over 10 million. For those keeping tabs, Survivor rerun viewership was generally 30%+ below BB, with an even larger disparity on Friday's double finale night.

BB beat the Olympics in key demographics, such as ages 18-49, on Friday, as noted above.


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That's it folks... let's root for the actors in their strike, pray for good writing in sitcoms, and hope for the collapse of top-heavy, overly cautious, self-dealing creative management at the networks and studios. Reality show or not, they're the problem.