Prime-Time Metered Market Thursday Ratings:
Strong NBA Finals on ABC; CBS’ Swingtown Beats NBC’s Fear Itself
Thursday 6/05/08
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Rtg/Shr
ABC 7.4/13
CBS 6.1/10
Fox 6.1/10
NBC 3.6/ 6
CW 1.4/ 2
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-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Thursday, June 7, 2007):
ABC: + 6, NBC: + 3, CBS: - 2, CW: - 7, Fox: - 8,
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Note: The fast affiliate results for Thursday will be posted at PIFeedback by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Thursday, June 5, 2008.
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-Yesterday’s Winners:
NBA Finals, Game 1 (ABC), So You Think You Can Dance (Fox)
-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats):
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC), Last Comic Standing (NBC), Fear Itself (NBC)
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-Ratings Breakdown:
Game one of the NBA Finals led ABC to overnight victory on this first Thursday of June, with a 1.3 rating point advantage over second-place CBS and Fox. NBC finished a distant fourth in the metered markets, followed by the CW.
A prime-time edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live opened the evening for ABC with a lackluster (and third-place) 3.4 rating/6 share in the overnights at 8 p.m. For better news on Jimmy Kimmel, see Ratings Box below. That led into the half-hour NBA Countdown at a 4.2/ 7 at 8:30 p.m. (#3), followed by the game 1 NBA match-up (Lakers at Celtics) at a solid 9.2/15 for the prime-time portion from 9-11 p.m. Take a look at the half-hour breakdown:
NBA Finals, Game 1 (ABC)
9:00 p.m. 8.0/14 (#1)
9:30 p.m. 9.3/15 (#1)
10:00 p.m. 9.4/15 (#1)
10:30 p.m. 10.1/17 (#1)