The third season premiere of Oxygen’s “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” marked the network’s highest-rated and most-watched season debut of an original series, Multichannel News reports. The episode garnered a 0.7 household rating and was up 14% among women…
Dramas, particularly of the science-fiction sort, are among the most played-back shows on DVRs, Media Daily News reports. NBC’s “Heroes” and ABC’s “Lost” experience the most DVR playback with 29% and 28% of viewers, respectively, putting the shows on their…
Nielsen will scrap the “random digital dial” telephone system that it uses to recruit paper diary ratings samples, Media Daily News reports. Nielsen will use addresses of prospective panel households instead starting in November, the Web site says. The move…
Nickelodeon’s “iCarly” drew 4.5 million viewers during last Friday’s episode, Multichannel News reports, making it the most-watched non-sports program on basic cable. The episode’s 8.8 rating among tweens (ages 9-14) helped make the program the third-most-watched program among teen viewers…
The midseason finale of Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica” on Friday attracted 1.8 million viewers, MediaWeek reports. The episode delivered 1.2 million adults 25-54 and 1.2 million adults 18-49, the newspaper says. The series has been averaging 2.2 million viewers…
USA network averaged 2.56 million viewers last week, beating its cable rivals after a five-week hiatus from its number one position, Mediaweek reports. USA was buoyed by the return of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” which brought in 4.53 million…
The ABC Family series “Greek” ended its season as the No. 1 basic-cable show in the 8 p.m. time period in women 18-34 and viewers 12-34, Daily Variety reports. The show is ABC Family’s highest-rated original series ever in adults…
Ratings for most syndicated shows were down in the week ending June 1, TVNewsday reports. Post-sweeps cutbacks in promotions, sports and political preemptions and the Memorial Day weekend are blamed for the weakened ratings, the Web site says. However, CBS…
CBS Television Distribution’s “Judge Judy” posted the biggest May sweeps increase from the same time last year among first-run strips, TVNewsday reports. The program had the highest sweep rating of any show in syndication at a 7.3 GAA average, the…
Broadcast programming aired 486 of the top 500 rated shows, according to the Television Bureau of Advertising, Media Daily News reports. Among the top 500 programs in the 18-49 demographic, only 16 cable programs made it onto the list, with…