Supergirl All About The Ratings!!!!!!

Yeah, I would think that the Nielsen ratings give an increasingly inaccurate picture of the actual viewership for these shows.

I'm in my mid-thirties, and I don't even consider watching most shows on regular tv at this point.

I think that must be pretty common.

 

Well, as you say, the tv advertisers look at the Nielsen ratings, so it's important for that (no one is seeing their ads online).

But in terms of the overall viewership, I don't think it's a great indication anymore.

Deals with the streaming services must be pretty important to the business model at this point, so it probably makes sense to come up with a rating that takes that sort of thing into account.

 

But, in the past, when streaming wasn't a big deal, it would have been a much more accurate sample from which to extrapolate the total audience (or come close to that).

Like a poll, essentially. Instead of asking everyone the question, you ask a sample number of people and extrapolate based on that.

It still may be a fairly accurate sample for the viewership on regular tv (important for companies advertising in that format), but with the shift to online streaming, a sample like that would no longer have much value for measuring the overall audience.

In essence, using the Nielsen ratings now for total viewership would be like using an incredibly inaccurate poll that failed to take into account a major factor skewing the sample.

That can happen with regular polls also (hence why they can turn out to be very inaccurate).

 

So those are independent web sites trying to make predictions?

Not sure what sort of data they might looking at, but I would be surprised if that type of site has any weight with the networks funding the content. Sounds like they are mostly trying to generate clicks and attention from fans.

Anyway, yeah, the kind of fan behavior you mention can be very odd. It's like trying to influence user ratings on different review sites by spamming them.

 

I like him already

 

Supergirl rerun wins the Arrowverse this week
Supergirl 0.3/1.11 million
Flash 0.2/0.64 million
Arrow 0.2/0.63 million
LoT 0.2/0.69 million
Basically the Supergirl rerun had almost twice the viewers as the other shows this week
Not sure what it means, but interesting.

 

Arrow adjusted down to 0.1.

It's been a similar trend since the hiatus began. I also don't know what it means.

 

Oh well, at least the rest of them held. Though LoT dropped to 0.67 million. I guess that puts Supergirl even more firmly in the catbird seat.

 

Has the rest of the landscape changed?

If Supergirl no longer has to contend with Dancing with the Stars and new episodes of Gotham, some potential viewership may be drifting over to check in on the reruns, maybe.

That's the only simple explanation I can think of.

 

Going up against sports and popular "reality" type shows is tough, I think, because there is incentive to watch those things live, while you don't really lose much by streaming these genre shows later on.

A lot of people binge-watch these shows anyway.

And Gotham being in the same genre on a bigger network is challenging also.

That could plausibly explain the rerun ratings being relatively high.

 

Supergirl's second season was added to Netflix recently, could that be counted in the ratings? I'd imagine that that is getting a lot of hits.

 

I think those numbers being cited are the Nielsen ratings, which are based on regular tv only.

The other CW shows have also had their most recent seasons added to Netflix, I believe, but anyway, that wouldn't be counted as viewership in those numbers for any of the shows.

 

This week's Supergirl episode did have to compete against The Bachelorette, American Ninja Warrior, and So You Think You Can Dance, all popular shows, and still managed a 0.3
While all Arrow, that got a 0.1, had going against it was Masterchef and reruns of The Goldbergs and Undercover boss.
And all Flash, with a 0.2, had was America's Got Talent, Downward Dog, and reruns.
So even in the summer Supergirl has tougher competition.
People liked Wonder Woman and want to see more female superheroes?

 

Could be. I was actually thinking that Wonder Woman's success could benefit Supergirl in the long run, when I originally saw the movie, just because of a ripple effect, but I wasn't thinking about reruns at that point. More about future seasons.

 

Well this Monday, the Supergirl rerun of "Crossfire" in New York at least gets pre-empted by Yankees baseball on WPIX channel 11. It will be seen Saturday July 1st in its 8PM slot (source Zap2It tv grid for my location).

But, and here's a secret, even though it will be seen on PIX11, it's basically a YES (Yankees Entertainment and Sports network) production. PIX carries about 23 games this season, while YES picks up the slack, and sometimes ESPN will air a game as well.

 

So the Supergirl rerun that wasn't really part of the cross-over beat all the actually were the cross-over reruns in total viewers. 7-17 to 19-2017

Supergirl - 0.2/0.97M
Flash - 0.2/0.78M
Arrow - 0.2/0.81M
Legends of Tomorrow - 0.2/0.75M