Timeshifting boosts NCIS to #1
Consolidated figures for NCIS for Week 9 gain 122,000 extra viewers -enough to topple Two and Half Men from its #1 placing for the week.
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NCIS picked up an extra 122,000 viewers in Timeshifted viewers for Week 9. It was enough to rewrite the final week’s tally and shift the show from #2 to #1.
The US show was one of many dramas that picked up more viewers on the week beginning February 21st.
It was an increase of 8.8% on its original Live (and As Live) audience. Meanwhile Lost added an extra 36.4% of its audience from Timeshifting. It was also the show on digital channels to make the biggest gains.
All of the Top 20 improvers were scripted drama or comedy.
Week 9
RNK Description STN Overnight Consolidated 000’s Increase % Increase
1 NCIS Ten 1,386,000 1,508,000 122,000 8.80%
2 Brothers & Sisters – Monday Seven 849,000 970,000 121,000 14.30%
3 Desperate Housewives Seven 937,000 1,043,000 106,000 11.30%
4 Doctor Who: The End Of Time ABC1 842,000 944,000 102,000 12.10%
5 House Ten 969,000 1,070,000 101,000 10.50%
6 Brothers & Sisters – Tuesday Seven 852,000 952,000 100,000 11.70%
7 Criminal Minds Seven 1,201,000 1,298,000 97,000 8.10%
8 Cougar Town Seven 1,017,000 1,113,000 96,000 9.40%
9 The Good Wife Ten 1,260,000 1,353,000 92,000 7.30%
10 Bones Seven 1,156,000 1,236,000 80,000 6.90%
11 Grey’s Anatomy Seven 1,019,000 1,099,000 80,000 7.90%
12 Blue Murder ABC1 550,000 630,000 80,000 14.50%
13 The Mentalist Nine 1,284,000 1,359,000 76,000 5.90%
14 Silent Witness ABC1 921,000 996,000 75,000 8.20%
15 Castle Seven 897,000 972,000 75,000 8.40%
16 Medium Ten 554,000 628,000 74,000 13.40%
17 How I Met Your Mother Seven 914,000 987,000 72,000 7.90%
18 The Bill ABC1 611,000 681,000 70,000 11.50%
19 Lost 7Two 188,000 256,000 68,000 36.40%
20 Burn Notice Ten 467,000 533,000 67,000 14.30%
14 Responses
With the various “light entertainment” programmes returning this week, it will be interesting to see how they fare in timeshifting.
It makes me wonder how many of the top 20 have catch up episodes on their respective networks’ sites. I thought House would be on the Ten website when I missed it last week, but was sadly disappointed!
Your job just got 36% harder with all these adjusted figures… Good to see Lost and NCIS rating so well, and 2.5 men being toppled…
Time shifting numbers are not truly accurate because Oztam don’t count people who ad skip. See here oztam.com.au/time-shift-faqs.aspx#what-measured
Be interesting to see the true number of viewers.
Not quite. It measures those people watching the show. It just doesn’t measure the ad skipping itself.
I always tape NCIS, regarless of whether or not I watch it.
I’ve been timeshifting since the 80’s with my first Beta Video recorder, I can’t stand watching anything ‘live’ any more, can’t stand the advertising.
we rarely watch Lost live, we record and watch next day
Have always used timeshifting…from VCRs to PVRs to iQ….but it will be interesting to see what this actually does to these shows(from a network persective), as advertising dollars mean nothing to timeshifted viewing numbers…or am I the only person that fast forwards ads 😉
36.4% growth for Lost! That is massive.
time shift or live, NCIS is the best imported show on telly…
I’m loving this time shift to finally get real work ratings, well a close as they can and realizing people have brains and use VCR/PVR to watch more than one show.
Only one timeshifted show from 9 in the top 20. Interesting. Does this show that most of what they show isn’t worth recording or just proves that there is still a belief that because Brian Told Me they will still sit there and watch what ever 9 throws up. 9 and throw up works for me !
So these time shifted results will now be the OAZTAM official ratings David? The new tally so to speak, that networks will take there numbers from.
Gotta love Timeshifting!