Dropped to 1.9 in the demo and lost almost 3 million viewers from last Sunday. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-sunday-march-18-2018/
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:52 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, now you are comparing the second episode of AI, which goes to the > quality of the show, which as I said is not very good. Their rating went > from 2.3 to 1.8 (about 22% loss). The Voice on the other hand is at 2.3, > down only one tenth from its premier. > > Even do, AI was the second highest rated network show Monday night, and > that’s not nothing. If it continues to drop it may become a liability, but > I imagine if it stays a reasonable second place most nights it will have > justified itself. > > Again, my point is more than ever tv ratings have to be understood in > context, not as absolutes. Probably the best matrix would be something like > what share of tvs tuned to network shows were tuned to the target show. > > I have not been able to complete my data set of ratings for similar > programs over last 10 years, but so far most programs are down severely, > especially in last 2 years. It just doesn’t mean anything anymore to say a > program’s ratings are down compared to last year, without saying if the > decline is more or less than other programs. > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 1:17 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> All that money brought them 3.4 million fewer viewers than The Voice. >> >> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings- >> monday-march-12-2018/ >> >> Not sent from an iPhone >> On Mar 13, 2018, at 7:12 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I don’t really care about AI (though I will confess to watching it), but >>> this is yet another example of how important it is to contextualize TV >>> ratings this year. The 2.3 rating was more than twice as high as what ABC >>> has been running in that slot this season, the highest rated show for ABC >>> in that slot in 4 years, the highest rated show of Sunday night, and was >>> roughly equivalent to the rating of the first episode of The Voice this >>> season (2.4). The 2.3 Rating exceeded industry predictions (most had it >>> coming in at under 2.0). AI functioned as a strong lead in to a new show on >>> ABC (can’t remember the name and don’t feel like looking it up), which gave >>> it a good number. The rating was 20% lower than the rating of the last >>> season premier of AI on Fox two years ago, which is in the ballpark of the >>> ratings declined shown by programs like the Daytona 500 and World Series >>> over that period. >>> >>> Which is to say, in the 2018 TV environment, a 2.3 rating is very good, >>> and probably worth whatever ABC paid for AI. >>> >>> The real question to me is will AI be able to maintain ratings near this >>> level (not sure what the typical season ratings curve looks like for AI). >>> Even by the standards of this kind of show I thought it was corny as hell. >>> I was surprise how well Richie did, and he would have an interesting take >>> on becoming a pop star, as he was one of those manufactured pop (R&B) stars >>> who actually had a really nice voice. I am not a huge Katie Perry fan, but >>> I thought at least she would be interesting (nope). I don’t know anything >>> about the country singer (I had never heard of the country singer on The >>> Voice when it premiered either, but found him to be both an interesting >>> personality and one of the better male voices in current popular music; >>> none of that seemed true of the AI guy - Luke something). >>> >>> The first episode did remind me of the difference between The Voice and >>> AI. While in many ways The Voice is a better show, it seems to produce >>> winners who are mediocre in the actual music business - partly I think now >>> because it seems to cull from opening acts, lounge acts, state fair acts. >>> The winner tends to be one of the best acts that has already proved it can >>> not appeal to a major fraction of the pop music audience. AI at least >>> presents itself as culling from acts that have not yet really had a chance >>> - so while they are often more raw and undeveloped, there seems to be a >>> chance that occasionally they will find a real pop music star (and, >>> occasionally, they have - which is more than The Voice can say). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 1:43 PM Steve Timko < [email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> They had a 2.3 in the demo and TV by the Numbers called that solid. >>>> That's a lot of money to pay for 2.3. 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