Week One - Premiere


NBC's second season debut of America's Got Talent on Tuesday from 9PM to 11PM ET delivered the highest ratings for any summer-series premiere so far this year, averaging 12.9 million viewers and a 4.3/12 rating/share in the Adults 18-49 demographic during its two-hour time period, according to preliminary "fast affiliate-based" "live plus same day" viewing figures from Nielsen Media Research.

The ratings performance left America's Got Talent 2's premiere ranked as not only the night's highest-rated show among total viewers, Adults 18-49, and all other key metrics, but also left it was the best total viewers and Adults 18-49 numbers of any new summer show that has premiered in the past couple of weeks, which includes the third-season debuts of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance and ****'s Kitchen, and the series premieres of CBS' Pirate Master and ABC's The Next Best Thing reeality series.


Among total viewers, the second season premiere of America's Got Talent was the highest scoring edition of the show ever, besting last summer's first season debut, which averaged 12.4 million. Among Adults 18-49, the premiere was the second-highest result ever for America's Got Talent, trailing only last summer's debut.

Week 2 - Audition Show

Two hours of "America's Got Talent" put NBC way out in front Tuesday night. More viewers were interested in the talent contest than in the NBA Finals on ABC.

"Talent" averaged 11.8 million viewers, according to ratings released Wednesday afternoon. The closest competition at 8 p.m. came from a repeat of CBS' "NCIS," with 9.8 million viewers.

The NBA Finals game, which lasted till 11:46 p.m., averaged 9.5 million fans.

For the night, NBC averaged 10.8 million viewers. The rest of the field: CBS with nearly 8 million, ABC with 6.9 million, Fox with 4.6 million and The CW with 1.4 million. "On the Lot" continues to bomb on Fox; just 2.8 million followed the filmmaking contest.

NBC won in the 18-to-49 age group followed by ABC, CBS, Fox and The CW.

Once again proven that despite the constant threats and assumptions... no one is boycotting the show because of Piers .

NBC is smart for puting this show on when there is little similiar competion.
I think the show is pretty bad but I admit I keep it on for backround noise.

What can I say? It amuses me.

Haha seriously. Some of the people on here love to overreact. Even if 100,000 people boycotted the show, which of course would never happen, that would be a drop in the bucket compared with 12 million viewers. I'm sure a few are, and if that does something for their moral agenda, great for them. A boycott is usually supposed to achieve something though, and from these figures, it obviously isn't haha.

Actually, it'd be more like 2 tablespoons, but I see your point
I'd prefer that people that don't like the show would not watch, and not post for that matter. If you don't like the show, why watch? And what good does complaining about it do?

Week 3......On a roll and doing Great!!!!!!!


12.4 mil in audience for NBC's 'Talent' show
By Paul J. Gough

June 21, 2007

"America's Got Talent" drove NBC to a win Wednesday on the strength of the second-best demo ratings ever for the sophomore summer variety show.

"Talent" was the top show for the night in major categories with 12.4 million viewers and a 4.4 rating/14 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research.

That's the second-best adults 18-49 rating ever for the show behind its June 21, 2006, debut, when it averaged a 4.6/14. Tuesday's show was the third most watched ever. The two-hour "Talent" prevailed in each of the four half-hours, jumping from 9.4 million viewers and a 3.2/12 at 8 p.m. to 14.5 million viewers and a 5.2/15 at 9:30 p.m.

It crushed the competition that included Fox's "On the Lot" (2.4 million, 1.0/3) and ABC's "Fast Cars and Superstars" (3.1 million, 1.0/3) as well as repeats of CBS' "NCIS" (9.3 million, 2.0/7) and Fox's "House" (6.7 million, 2.5/7).

NBC kept up the momentum winning the 10 p.m. hour with a repeat "Law & Order: SVU" (9.4 million, 2.9/9) against ABC's "Boston Legal" (4.1 million, 1.3/4) and CBS' "48 Hours Mystery" (6.8 million, 1.9/6).

Thanks for the rating info. I had done an internet search for the rating for the premiere and was curious about the other episodes. Nice to know they are being posted here. Thanks.

Ratings for New York Auditions - Week 4:





NBC has a flair for victory with 'Talent'By Paul J. Gough

June 28, 2007

NEW YORK -- NBC came away with an overwhelming victory in Tuesday's primetime thanks to another winning performance by "America's Got Talent."

The two-hour "Talent" was the night's top show with 11.4 million viewers and a 3.7 rating/12 share in adults 18-49, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research. It was down in both measures compared with last week (12.5 million, 4.4/14), but it was still enough to overpower anything else between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

There were only a handful of other originals on broadcast TV, including another episode of "On the Lot" (2.3 million, 1.1/4) on Fox and the premiere of "Shaq's Big Challenge" (4.4 million, 1.7/5) on ABC. "Lot" was about even with last week (2.5 million, 1.1/4), while "Challenge" was only marginally better than the two repeats of ABC's "According to Jim" that aired in the hour last Tuesday night.

NBC won all three hours of primetime, with 10 p.m. going to "Law & Order: SVU" (8.7 million, 2.8/8) against the premiere of ABC's "Primetime: Family Secrets" (5.8 million, 2.1/6) and CBS' "48 Hours Mystery" (6.3 million, 1.8/5).

Tuesday averages: NBC (10.5 million, 3.4/10); CBS (6.7 million, 1.5/5); ABC (4.7 million, 1.8/5); Fox (4.4 million, 1.6/5); and the CW (1.3 million, 0.5/2).

I wouldn't put to much faith in ratings.

I mean, recently CBS's Jericho was canceled and fans brought it back. Fox canceled the show Firefly and due to fan support they made the movie Serenity. Another series canceled by CBS back in the 80's was Cagney and Lacey and it was brought back by a letter writing campaign.

NBC has also screwed up and they have the most famous case of ooooppps. You might remember a little show by Gene Roddenberry that never made it above #52 in the Ratings during it's entire run and was canceled after three seasons. We all know what happened with the Star Trek franchise.

All I am saying is that if they are going to depend on ratings so much they need to find a better way to track who is watching. The networks also need to drop so many of the news (Dateline, 20/20, etc.) and reality shows (Big Brother, Pirate Master, etc.) and sports/award shows (play-offs, Oscars, etc.). Stop runing the same shows over and over. I have seen The Singing Bee and AGT three times (new show and two repeats) on the schedule in one week.

They need to pry open their wallet and pay for the good programs and stop losing them to cable/satellite. Example - Monday Night Football now on ESPN. Battlestar Gallatica, Stargate SG-1, etc. both offered and turned down by the networks before being picked up by cable channels. Not everyone has cable/satellite or a computer.

The networks need to stop taking four month breaks during the winter (November 1^st through February 28^th) and make 24 episodes a year like they used to and not 13-15 per year. They need to stop shifting shows from one time slot to to another and stop canceling a show after three shows if it doesn't do well. The first season of M*A*S*H was low in the ratings and almost canceled but they left it alone and it became the highest rated American series of all time with it's 60.2% household rating and 50.15 million viewers.

If the networks are so worried about ratings and losing their market share they need to pull their head out of their ***.

Does anyone have the ratings for the Las Vegas episodes? The most important thing about ratings for the networks anyway, is that is what determines how much they can charge advertisers. It's all business baby.

You do bring up a good point with the Star Trek and Firefly examples. That is, the devotion of the fans you do have can make up for the shear numbers at times. A ravid fan of a show is worth more to the network and advertisers than a casual viewer. A die hard fan is much more likely to watch the show live, instead of from a recording. Therefore, he won't skip through commercials. Also, the die hard fan is less likely to change the channel during a commercial break, fearing that he might miss something.

Simple rating numbers unfortunately can't take those types of intangibles into account. Also, I would think that it may be difficult for the networks to convince advertisers to pay more for an ad on one show than they would have to for ads on other programing of similar ratings because their show has more "fanatical" fans.

Something about these reality competition shows (like AGT, Idol, etc) is that they do promote fans that become invested in particular contestants and follow them and probably have a higher percentage of the "ravid" fan base than other programing. Similar to things like sporting events in that people are more likely to watch it live. You can TIVO "Everybody Loves Raymond" and watch it later, buy you want to find out who's going to advance right away.

The only reason I tuned in this year was because of Sharon. She has proven to be a dissappointment in her judging. I was expecting so much more from her.

I could take a poll at my store with my customers and see if they are tuning into AGT. The only reality show I've heard talked about so far is "So You Think You Can Dance" which have the best judges who critique professionally and honestly. There are no joke acts getting through on that one.

I understand what you are saying. I like AGT and Idol (once it gets to the top twenty) However, I just don't like watching the same thing over and over again. It's like they can't or won't think of anything new. NBC's Dateline is on three times in one week. Another example, CBS had Survivor, then added Big Brother. Same thing except it's in a house. Then they came up with Pirate Master. Same thing on a boat. If I wanted to watch people plotting against one another and backstabbing I'd go to work or listen to CSPAN. It just gets old after a while.
You mentioned Las Vegas. It's a good show and so was Crossing Jordan. Both had high ratings then they got the bright idea to bury them on another night. Ratings dropped because no one could find them. Crossing Jordan has been canceled and I haven't heard about Las Vegas. One thing I read said that it was also canceled and Parade magazine reported in the Q&A section that James Caan was taking a break to film something and that Tom Selleck was going to be the new owner of the Montecito Resort & Casino for at least one season. I haven't seen them but IMDB said that he was on the show for four episodes in the character of Cooper last year.
Speaking of Tom Selleck, I like the five tv movies of the character Jesse Stone. Four so far and one scheduled for 2008. I wish that they would turn that into a weekly series.