| Vwrs (000) |
Change |
||
| Lst Wk | Lst Yr | ||
 |
= |
= |
|
|
3538 |
+16% |
+11% |
|
 |
= |
= |
|
|
1137 |
-4% |
+3% |
|
 |
= |
= |
|
|
465 |
-44% |
-34% |
|
 |
= |
+2 |
|
|
351 |
+65% |
+158% |
|
 |
+1 |
-1 |
|
|
223 |
+46% |
-3% |
|
 |
-1 |
-1 |
|
|
160 |
-9% |
+8% |
|
 |
= |
= |
|
|
87 |
-1% |
-5% |
|
 |
= |
+1 |
|
|
79 |
+10% |
-4% |
|
 |
= |
-1 |
|
|
67 |
+16% |
-26% |
|
 |
= |
= |
|
|
45 |
-8% |
-13% |
|
| Vwrs (000) |
Change |
||
| Lst Wk | Lst Yr | ||
|
= |
= |
|
|
1192 |
-3% |
-0% |
|
|
+1 |
+1 |
|
|
317 |
+1% |
+10% |
|
|
-1 |
-1 |
|
|
301 |
-19% |
-11% |
|
|
= |
= |
|
|
128 |
-20% |
-28% |
|
|
= |
+1 |
|
|
123 |
+31% |
+64% |
|
|
+1 |
-1 |
|
|
97 |
+37% |
-12% |
|
|
-1 |
+1 |
|
|
73 |
-13% |
+26% |
|
|
= |
-1 |
|
|
62 |
+5% |
-3% |
|
|
= |
-1 |
|
|
58 |
+12% |
0% |
|
|
= |
= |
|
|
28 |
-13% |
-7% |
|
There’s a very real possibility I may not need SotB’s Awful Announcing posts (which at this point, include everything I already have except for the rankings) to do the weekly network summaries anymore. TVNewser’s “Cable News Ranker” posts include a document with week-by-week, month-by-month, quarter-by-quarter, and (presumably) year-by-year reports of average audience, average number of households watching, and household “coverage” percentage (a number that presumably reflects the audience estimates that have hardly been reported at all all year)… for (almost) every single Nielsen-rated cable network, as well as each network’s rank compared to the others. To see Nielsen include so many numbers I had thought I was the only one interested in, as well as a number I didn’t even dare to think of but is incredibly useful to put the others in context, that can potentially allow me to include networks SotB doesn’t report information for for whatever reason, blew me away. This may be the most felicitous development since I learned about how comprehensive SotB was being on his blog.
Or, it would be… but there’s a problem. No matter what, TVNewser does only one of these posts a week. So every month It puts up the rankings for the entire month just past but skips a week. Okay, I can just use TVNewser for monthly wrapups, but every three months it puts up the quarterly rankings for the three months just past, and skips that month. I’d bet anything that at year’s end it’ll put up the yearly rankings and skip the fourth quarter, but I don’t think these posts even go back that far, which actually surprises me because I’m pretty damn sure I’ve seen the sort of image that leads the post before, even if it didn’t have this comprehensive document. So it’s vaguely useful for a year-end rating roundup, but that’s it, and no matter what I use it for I can’t do the year-on-year comparisons I’m used to for the near future. (I guess I can accept that it would get pretty crowded if at the end of the year you had the rankings for the last week, and for December, and for the fourth quarter, and for the entire year…)
So this is more of a proof of concept than anything else, taking the November ratings, one of the four all year where I can take the month’s ratings and do a comparison to the previous month. Because I still can’t do the median minute ratings without SotB’s comprehensive information, I would probably still split primetime and total day into two tables given the sheer magnitude of information involved. I’m also assuming “ENN” is short for ESPNEWS, but it’s entirely possible it’s just not on the list; Fox Deportes is the only Spanish-language sports network on the list, and not only have I seen plenty of ratings reported for Univision Deportes and ESPN Deportes (and seen UDN on both the TVMI and TVbytheNumbers lists), I’ve actually seen UDN advertise its weekly summary data of this sort, so clearly not all Nielsen-rated networks are on the list (the disclaimer says it “includes only those cable networks who [sic] supply program names to the industry”, whatever that means – for what it’s worth HBO, which often tops the daily lists with shows like Game of Thrones and True Blood, doesn’t show up either, and neither does FXX, but FXM does).
Regardless, the lack of Spanish-language networks means I’m limiting this list to the same bank of networks I always use. Overall rankings are out of 96 networks for primetime and 98 for total day; note that Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are each considered to be two networks for Nielsen purposes for their nighttime adult-oriented Nick@Nite and Adult Swim blocks respectively, and only the latter appear in the primetime ranks. Yes, that means MLBN is very near the bottom in both measures. It could be worse; Fox Sports 2 outpaces only Tr3s, MTV’s Hispanic-oriented network, and the dying corpse of G4. (MLBN and FS2 have VH1 Classic, mun2, and Al Jazeera America between them in some order in both measures.)
| PT | Ovr Rank Vwr (000) |
LM Chng |
HH (Cvr) |
LM Chng |
TD | Ovr Rank Vwr (000) |
LM Chng |
HH (Cvr) |
LM Chng |
||
|
1 |
|
= |
2.4 |
+19% |
1 |
|
= |
0.9 |
+12% |
||
|
= |
3881 |
+21% |
2.9 |
+0.4 |
= |
1376 |
+14% |
1.1 |
+0.1 |
||
|
2 |
|
+13 |
0.6 |
+76% |
2 |
|
+1 |
0.2 |
+4% |
||
|
+1 |
949 |
+82% |
1.0 |
+0.5 |
+1 |
316 |
+3% |
0.3 |
= |
||
|
3 |
|
#30 |
-2 |
0.3 |
+7% |
3 |
|
#38 |
+10 |
0.2 |
+26% |
|
+1 |
540 |
+4% |
0.4 |
= |
+1 |
274 |
+32% |
0.3 |
+0.1 |
||
|
4 |
|
#50 |
-41 |
0.2 |
-76% |
4 |
|
#61 |
-34 |
0.1 |
-63% |
|
-2 |
276 |
-76% |
0.2 |
-0.7 |
-2 |
124 |
-63% |
0.1 |
-0.2 |
||
|
5 |
|
#64 |
+15 |
0.1 |
+49% |
5 |
|
#70 |
+13 |
0.1 |
+45% |
|
+2 |
163 |
+55% |
0.2 |
+0.1 |
+5 |
81 |
+59% |
0.1 |
= |
||
|
6 |
|
#71 |
-5 |
0.1 |
-4% |
6 |
|
#72 |
= |
0.1 |
+3% |
|
-1 |
132 |
-10% |
0.1 |
= |
= |
79 |
+1% |
0.1 |
= |
||
|
7 |
|
#72 |
-3 |
0.1 |
-3% |
7 |
|
#74 |
-10 |
0.1 |
+2% |
|
-1 |
132 |
+2% |
0.1 |
= |
-2 |
76 |
unch |
0.1 |
= |
||
|
8 |
|
#79 |
+4 |
0.1 |
+33% |
8 |
|
#80 |
= |
0.0 |
+4% |
|
+1 |
85 |
+8% |
0.1 |
= |
+1 |
59 |
+5% |
0.1 |
= |
||
|
9 |
|
#83 |
+4 |
0.0 |
+10% |
9 |
|
#82 |
-3 |
0.0 |
-4% |
|
+1 |
69 |
+15% |
0.1 |
= |
-1 |
55 |
-5% |
0.1 |
= |
||
|
10 |
|
#90 |
-8 |
0.0 |
-43% |
10 |
|
#92 |
-14 |
0.0 |
-50% |
|
-2 |
44 |
-45% |
0.1 |
= |
-3 |
28 |
-53% |
0.0 |
-0.1 |