Long term numbers

I already did my weekly ratings report, but a few longer term numbers have cropped up on the Interwebs.

CBS can't (and shouldn't) resist crowing about their 857th straight year of top daytime ratings. Okay, it's actually 31 years but that's almost half my well-aged lifetime. Leading the way in total viewers for the 2106-17 year was the second half-hour of The Price is Right, at 5.40 million. Why does Nielsen split the show into two parts, anyway? Must be a legacy of ratings from the cuneiform era. The first half-hour was third in total viewers, by the way.

Let's Make a Deal's second half-hour also snuck into the top five, with 3.36 million viewers. CBS only gave Wayne and friends a one-year renewal, which seems a little stingy. I doubt that LMAD is in any kind of danger, though.

Meanwhile, GSN had an okay but hardly spectacular third quarter of 2017. 346K/260K viewers prime time total day. The recent weeks have come in much lower, unfortunately. For the quarter the network ranked 44th and 39th in the windows. Can we get another hit besides Harvey Feud?

And for those who like more recent ratings, Millionaire brags about its nice demos for the first week of its new season. It's that "key Women 25-54 demo," don't you know?

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