Source: Pegasus News
The D-FW Nielsens mostly snored over the weekend, with no single program coming close to a double-digit rating.
ABC has a modest little hit, though, in Friday night’s interactive National Bingo Night. Its third episode tied CBS’ Close to Home for first place in homes at 7 p.m. (97,580) while easily winning that time slot among both 18-to-49-year-olds and 18-to-34-year-olds.
That flies in the face of conventional wisdom that said the show would skew north of Forest Lawn. Bingo even beat The CW’s competing Friday Night Smackdown! among these two advertiser-craved groups.
Sunday night’s two-hour Democratic presidential candidate debate on CNN, easily the liveliest so far, managed just 11,900 homes. And Belo8’s Dallas mayoral debate, which originated on the station’s web site Friday, drew 19,040 homes at 7 a.m. Sunday.
Saturday’s biggest prime-time draw came from cable, where TNT’s coverage of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ closeout of the Detroit Pistons averaged 139,468 homes.
In Friday’s local news derby, Belo8 came within a hair of a rare double grand slam. The ABC station won at 6 a.m. and 5, 6 and 10 p.m. in total homes.
It also placed first at 6 a.m. and 5 and 10 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. But NBC5 edged Belo8 at 6 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demo.
CBS11’s 10 p.m. newscast climbed to second in both audience measurements, with NBC5 slipping to an unaccustomed third.
