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show
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rating
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rank of 130 shows
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l-w
rating
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l-w
rank
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PROVIDENCE
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7.5
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37
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6.9
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45
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AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS
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6.0
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50
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6.3
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54
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48 HOURS INVESTIGATES
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5.6
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59
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6.6
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52
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FIREFLY
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2.7
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98
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6.4
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55
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WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU
"Cool Older Sister"
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2.1
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104
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2.1
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98
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MOVIE: "THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK"
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1.5
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110
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1.3
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108
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* Last week: "Baseball Playoffs"
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THE WB FRIDAY RATINGS |
| time |
show/episode |
rating |
rank |
lw-rate |
lw-rank |
| 8PM |
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU
Cool Older Sister |
2.1 |
104 |
2.1 |
98 |
| 8:30 |
SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH
Free Sabrina |
2.1 |
104 |
2.1 |
98 |
| 9PM |
REBA
It's Jake's Party, Cry If You Want To |
2.9 |
94 |
3.2 |
85 |
| 9:30 |
GREETINGS FROM TUCSON
Popularity |
2.2 |
102 |
2.5 |
95 |
NUMBER CRUNCHING:
It was a bad Friday night for Fox as its Friday flagship,
"Firefly", made a plunge in the ratings, not only paling next
to the baseball coverage that pre-empted it last week, but also to its
own performance of two weeks hence. "Firefly"'s Friday showing
was lower rated than any episode of "Dark Angel" that had run
in that slot last year.
But the week's big news came before the nationals came out, when NBC
announced the cancellation of its slowly-sinking "Providence".
The show, which had not been renewed for a full season, was being
monitored very carefully, and despite very good numbers on Friday
(comparatively speaking, of course), the network decided the show was
not what it could be, and chose to end it.
On the WB side of things, "What I Like About You" and
"Sabrina" seem to be prospering only with their target
audiences -- the network needs to address grabbing older viewers and
fleshing out that 18-34 demo (which WILAY could probably do more
effectively that "Sabrina", with more attention paid to the
burgeoning romance of Valerie and Jeff). Also, "Reba" and
"Greetings from Tucson" don't seem to be holding their
previous week's total audience, especially "Reba", which
experienced its second straight week of lower ratings numbers
As is evidenced by the below blurb from the WB, "WILAY" and
"Reba" are the two leaders for the night in female teens, with
"Sabrina" between them losing female teen audience...sometime after the
sweeps, a possible swap of "WILAY" and "Sabrina" may
be in the offing...it's probably in the WB's best interest now to get
these two shows back to back and then build on either side of them.
FROM THE WB PRESS RELEASE:
First-year comedy "What I Like About You" kicked the night
off by ranking #2 in its time period in persons 12-34 (1.9/8), women
12-34 (2.5/11), #3 in women 18-34 (2.0/8) and #1 in teens (2.4/12) and
female teens (3.8/17, its all-time best in the demo).
"What I Like About You" scored week-to-week gains in nine
key demos, including +19% in persons 12-34, +25% in women 12-34, +14% in
adults 18-34 (1.6/7) and +18% in women 18-34.
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