CW's premieres - 2.4% average household ratings

For comparison, the first week of October had UPN 2.3%/WB 2.5%.

These numbers represent the percentage of U.S. homes. Overall, CW's
new premiere episodes averaged 2.4% as the 5th most-popular network,
but some nights like Wednesdays and Fridays, it was able to beat FOX
for 4th place.

8 p.m. average == 3.0% (7th heaven, gilmore, smallville, top model)
9 p.m. average == 2.1% (runaway, one tree, supernatural, veronica)

CW's 9 o'clock shows are doing very, very poorly. They're not
carrying-over the audience from the 8 p.m shows. Any ideas why?

William George Ferguson...

The Mon-Thur 8pm shows were the WB's three top rated shows and UPN's top
rated show. One kind of expects them to still be the top rated shows,
until proven otherwise. (and so far, they are)

William George Ferguson...

You keep saying this, but it ignores things.

You are going in and parsing out CW channels that you feel don't qualify as
'analog'. You do not do the same thing with WB's former coverage. Out of

telenovels...

(1) Don't assume what I did or did not do. ASK.

(2) Yes I did. I reviewed the list of WB affiliates, and subtracted
the digital channels. So WB's coverage dropped from ~92% a+d coverage
to ~91% analog coverage.

WB's '91%', almost 10% of the nation was covered by the WB 100+ Group

telenovels...

(3) I am aware of the WB's cable-only channels. Most of them still
keep the "wb100" designation, but switched-over to analog broadcast
after 1995, and therefore are available to people with the old
NTSC-standard antennas/sets.

(4) The modern CW100 is not cable-only, but instead almost-all digital
sub-channels. Which I do not include in my 83% analog coverage
calculation.

(cable-only channels, no over-the-air broadcast, not even Digital). The CW
100+ Group has a much smaller footprint, primarily because CW opted for
Digital sub-channels rather than cable-only channels in most cases. It
only did cable-only if it couldn't do any form of over-the-air.

William George Ferguson...

This applies to the Digital sub-channel stations primarily, and out of the
area stations. Over the air analog stations within the service area are
carried by the cable companies by legal mandate.

telenovels...

True, but the legal mandate doesn't say they have to be assigned a
number lower than 100. (Or does it? I don't know.) (shrug)

CW's PREMIERES:
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