USA ORIGINALS LEAD WAY TO RATINGS WIN
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – March 8, 2010 –USA was this week’s top cable network in prime P25-54, P18-49, total viewers and household delivery. USA and was the only one to deliver over 1 million in P25-54 (1.29 million in P25-54, +55% over #2 TNT), 1 million in P18-49 (1.16 million, +29% over #2 MTV), 2.5 million total viewers (2.99 million, +26% over #2 Disney Channel), or 2 million households (2.23 million, +27% over #2 Disney Channel) while bringing in the week’s biggest household coverage rating in basic cable prime (2.20, +0.38 over #2 Disney Channel).
USA also won the total day crown this week in P25-54 and P18-49 as one of only two networks to deliver over half a million in P25-54 (630,000, +13% over #2 TNT) and one of three to break half a million P18-49 (600,000, +7% over #2 Nickelodeon).
* Six of the top ten scripted telecasts among P25-54 were on USA while the network’s two original dramas, WHITE COLLAR and FAIRLY LEGAL, delivered more P25-54 (White Collar 1.55 million / Fairly Legal 1.47 million), total viewers (WC 3.30 million / FL 3.21 million), and households (WC 2.50 million / FL 2.42 million) than any original drama on cable. WHITE COLLAR was also the top P18-49 original cable drama this week with 1.5 million viewers.
* FAIRLY LEGAL saw gains of at least +20% in key demos and placed as the top scripted telecast in cable’s prime Thursday among P25-54 (1.47 million), P18-49 (1.21 million), total viewers (3.21 million), and households (2.50 million), coming in second only to Jersey Shore in key demos. Head-to-head, FAIRLY LEGAL delivered more M18-34 than anything on broadcast Thursday at 10pm as well as outperforming ABC in P18-34, P18-49, P25-54, and total viewers.
* WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW was second only to Jersey Shore for the week in delivering P25-54 (2.67 million), P18-49 (2.83 million), total viewers (5.61 million), and households (3.83 million). RAW’s 10pm hour delivered more M18-34 (1.06 million) than anything else in Monday’s primetime, broadcast or cable, while beating everything in the hour in M18-34, M18-49, M25-54, and total males. WWE Raw was also the top M18-34 draw on television in the 9pm hour, outperforming FOX in P18-34.
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