3.02 Million Viewers.
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thesnowleopard — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 01:52 PM)
"Poor," my ass. Those ratings were great! Might the CW have liked them a little higher (like The Flash's 1.3/5 and slightly higher audience)? I'm sure, but they were well on target to justify the move. They got the bulk of the network's audience to check out the show. It even tied with Lucifer and Gotham on FOX and outperformed Conviction on ABC. Time was the CW couldn't even hope to match even the low-hanging fruit on the other major networks. Well, times have changed. Now its higher shows are in the middle.
Nobody in the industry compares individual show ratings across networks for renewal purposes; come that time, shows are always ranked within the network. The audiences are different with different behaviors. For instance, the CW audience is younger and more hooked into online viewing than those watching CBS, something the CW has been pretty successful in monetizing in recent yearsSupergirl season one has been on Netflix all month and CW viewers are probably mostly caught up.
The CW audience also tends to be more loyal than those of other networks, so those viewers who showed up to watch this week are more likely to come back next week, too.
There's absolutely no reason for either the CW or CBS to be upset today. The show could very easily have tanked, but it hit big instead. If they got a lot of crossover from last season's CBS audience, all the better. Plus, anyone who follows ratings on the CW knows full well that Mondays are a death slot night for the network, so for Supergirl to get this rating against cross-programming like The Big Bang Theory and The Voice is impressive.
Try actually reading up on how ratings work before posting, next time. You just came off looking like an idiot.
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thesnowleopard — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 08:51 PM)
But CW keeps dropping ratings every year like all tv.
All of the networks have been dropping since 1980. In fact, because it's been dropping more slowly than the other networks, the CW is in better shape relative to the Big Four than it's ever been.
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