20May2013
First Look: “Family Feud” Updates Set for Season 15
While we were away there were a few interesting pieces of news we'll update you on in case you missed it. One item of note to start the day belongs to Family Feud. As they do every year, the Steve Harvey-hosted syndicated game has updated its set for the new season. Last year, season 14, saw Feud enter HD for the first time with some high def-friendly updates. They're continuing that modification this season. Click here to take a look.
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Ratings Report: The Usual Suspects “Wheel” and “Jeopardy!” Stay High, “Millionaire” Stays Steady
Here comes this week's report of game show ratings in syndication and cable. This is for the week of February 4th, 2013. Wheel of Fortune remains the unsurprising king of the syndicated ratings, scoring a 7.7 household rating and averaging 12.1 million viewers, losing a tenth of a ratings point and 200,000 viewers over last week. Jeopardy! naturally trails ever so slightly behind with a 6.9 rating, the same rating as last week, and stays in a virtual tie with last week's ratings, just fewer than 10.7 million viewers. Click here to read the rest of the ratings for this week, including Millionaire, Family Feud and GSN's ratings.
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Ratings Report: “Wheel” Stays Steady, “Millionaire” Stays Strong, “Chain Reaction” Reruns Very Well
Syndicated and GSN ratings are here for the week of January 28th, 2013. Great numbers all around this week once again, so let's take a look at them. Wheel of Fortune keeps its 7.8 household rating from last week's season high, but dips a few hundred thousand viewers to just fewer than 12.3 million. Jeopardy! goes down a tenth of a ratings point down to 6.9 and has a 100,000 viewer dip to land at just under 10.7 million viewers. Click here to read the rest of the report, including a comparison for these shows against primetime TV, the ratings for other shows like Family Feud and Millionaire, and to read about Chain Reaction having a surge of popularity on GSN's schedule.
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Ratings Report: “Wheel,” “Jeopardy!,” “Millionaire” & “Ask America” Hit Highs
If you are associated with a syndicated game show this week, chances are you're feeling pretty good. All of those programs had very impressive numbers this week, going higher than some of us thought it might. The numbers for the week of January 21st are fun to look at. Wheel of Fortune stands head-and-shoulders above the rest of its competition this week as the highest rated first-run syndie program. Vanna and Pat gained just over 100,000 viewers to make a new viewership high for the season of 12.3 million viewers with a 7.8 household rating. Its Sony counterpart Jeopardy! had a great week too. Click here to read about that and other shows including Family Feud, Millionaire and Let's Ask America.
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UPDATE: Ratings Report: “Deal” Hits Series High, “Wheel” Spins Higher, “Price” Up Over Average
UPDATE: Instead of putting it off until next week, we've updated this week's Ratings Report to put out some great ratings news for Let's Make a Deal. According to CBS, the week of January 21st (last week) saw the Wayne Brady show reach its highest viewership ever since beginning in 2009. The show averaged 3.14 million viewers over the hour (2.9 million viewers in the first half hour, almost 3.4 million in the second) and tied or beat many highs in the important female demographics. Congratulations to them! A slight delay in this week's Ratings Report for whatever reason, but here it is, packed with all kinds of information this week! The syndicated ratings for the week of January 14th will kick us off. Wheel of Fortune hit another ratings high this week, eclipsing the previous one by more than 400,000 viewers. They scored over 12.2 million viewers, netting a 7.8 household rating. Jeopardy!'s viewership is very slightly down from its season high last week, losing fewer than a hundred thousand viewers to finish with more than 10.4 million viewers and a solid 6.8 rating. Click here to read much more detailed information about ratings from Family Feud, The Price Is Right, Let's Make a Deal, GSN shows and much more!
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Ratings Report: Syndies Hit More Season Highs, “Family Feud” Soars Even Higher
The week of January 7th was a great time to be a syndicated game show. Just about every first-run program hit a season high with their ratings this week, putting them all in great standing. Wheel of Fortune stayed the pack leader this week, logging an average of over 11.8 million viewers this week, giving them a 7.6 household rating. That's one-tenth of a rating point more than the previous high and is over 800,000 viewers higher than last week's viewership. Jeopardy! is ringing in for joy as well, as its previous high this season was just over 9.9 million viewers. This week, they accounted for almost 10.5 million viewers coupled with a 6.8 rating. The Sony squad is happy to hear that, I'm sure. Click here to read about the numbers for other shows this week, like Family Feud, Millionaire and Newlywed Game.
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Ratings Report: Big Money Shatters Another “Family Feud” Record, How Much Further Can They Go?
Syndicated ratings are in for the first week of 2013! These are ratings from the week of December 31, 2012 and one show in particular has really good news. But we will start first with our two traditional toppers. Wheel of Fortune begins to recover from the holiday season breaks, gaining back 150,000 viewers and inching up two-tenths of a ratings point, finishing with just fewer than 11 million viewers and a 6.9 household rating. Jeopardy! shows the wackiness of the correlation between overall viewers and the household rating, as it loses 40,000 or so viewers but gains a tenth of a point to go to a 6.0 rating. Click here to read about the new record-setting numbers Family Feud delivered this week and to weigh in on how much farther you think they will be able to go.
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Ratings Report: “Millionaire” Hits Top, Most Others Seasonally Drop, Some GSN Ratings Flop
It's time for another holiday week of syndicated ratings! That means some lower-than-usual numbers in a few cases and a surprisingly large bump in another. These ratings are for the week beginning December 24th, 2012, making it the last set of ratings entirely resting in 2012. Wheel of Fortune kicks the report off as usual, checks in with another tumble. The spinner lost 600,000 viewers and six-tenths of a point, going to a 6.7 household rating. Jeopardy! falls similarly, losing 500,000 viewers with 9.3 million viewers checking in and losing half of a ratings point, sliding down to a 5.9 rating. Click here to read reports for other shows, including good news for Millionaire, numbers for Family Feud and figures for GSN's original series and final holiday marathons.
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Video: Hutchinson Family Wins $160,000 on “Family Feud”
We discussed it very briefly yesterday, but a massive congratulations goes to the Hutchinson family who took home a record $160,000 on Tuesday's Family Feud. This is the largest single bank and the largest winning total ever for a team on Family Feud. It was a great, exciting moment made possible by Publisher's Clearing House. Did you not get a chance to see the record breaking win, or do you live in a country where Feud is not available? Click here to take a look at it, read our remarks about the moment and Steve Harvey, and to let us know what you think.
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Tuesday Recap: Biggest “Chase” and “Family Feud” Wins Ever
What a week we've had in the game genre. In addition to Monday's big Millionaire, Tuesday had two major events on shows in both American and the United Kingdom. The Chase had its biggest winner ever yesterday. Congratulations to Larry Connelly who single-handedly won a massive £60,000 versus Mark Labbett on the Bradley Walsh hosted quiz show. We've got video of that inside. Family Feud also crowned its biggest winners ever. On Tuesday the Hutchinson family won a record $160,000 bank in the Big Money Tournament. Click here to read more about each moment and see the videos once they become available.
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Ratings Report: Syndies Mostly Down, “Newlywed” Stays Strong, Black and White Beats Harvey “Feud”
The holidays have caused some delays in getting the numbers to report to you all, but that means we have an extra jam-packed ratings report this Friday. We have syndicated ratings for the week of December 17th and, in addition, we also have two weeks worth of GSN ratings to report, including all of their holiday marathons around Christmas and how well the black and white programs did in their two-week stint. But first, the big ones - the syndicated ratings. Wheel of Fortune lost just 100,000 viewers over the previous week, going down to 11.4 million viewers and losing a tenth of a ratings point to go to 7.3. Click here to read the rest of this week's extra-detailed report, with numbers for other syndicated shows, like Jeopardy! and Family Feud, along with extra-detailed GSN ratings information, including the Bible, Feud and Match Game marathons, primetime Newlywed Game numbers and how Late Night Black and White did.
Read MoreView Comments (11)31Dec2013
“Family Feud” Kicks Off 2013 With Steve Harvey’s First Big Money Tournament Today
2012 has been an extremely good year for Family Feud. They have seen visibility of the show increase, the viewership go up by millions and fan loyalty continue to stay strong. Clearly, they anticipate 2013 going even better and they plan to make sure that happens by starting the year off, beginning today, with something that has not been seen for a few years: The Family Feud Big Money Tournament. The show has not presented a Big Money Tournament since 2009 when John O'Hurley was the host of the program, so this will be Steve Harvey's first opportunity to give away $160,000 to one of eight lucky families. Each family selected to play in the single-elimination tournament is a notable family from the first two seasons of Harvey's Feud tenure that did not manage to capture a big prize during their stay. If they can make it all the way to the end, the winning family will certainly not have to worry about that anymore. Click here to see the tournament schedule, to see a photo of each participating family and to learn about the tournament's game format.
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Ratings Report: “Wheel” Stays on Top, “Jeopardy” Goes to High, “Newlywed” Goes Down
Many of us might be having a holiday hangover, but the weekly ratings report has come in this afternoon. The numbers are mostly filled with bright spots, which is good news for people who like to see game shows flourish. This week’s ratings are regarding the week beginning December 10, 2012. Wheel of Fortune kicks off the report as it usually does with some positive news. Wheel gained a few hundred thousand viewers and two-tenths of a rating point over last week's showing, with over 11.5 million viewers on average tuning in over the week, corresponding with a 7.4 household rating. Click here to read more of the ratings from this week, including other syndicated game shows,Newlywed Game and to see how Improv-a-Ganza repeats are doing on GSN's Friday nights.
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Ratings Report: A Few Downs, A Few Sames, No Ups, “Improv” Stinks Up GSN Fridays
Tuesday afternoon means it's time for the weekly ratings gathering for syndication - and the usual one or two from cable. This week's ratings come to us from the week beginning December 3, 2012. Wheel of Fortune , the game show always on the top of the syndicated game show food chain, lost three-tenths of a ratings point and also lost 700,000 viewers from last week to go down to just under 11.2 million viewers with a 7.2 household rating. It's not as huge as last week, but it's still a fine figure. Click here to read more of the ratings from this week, including other syndicated game shows, Newlywed Game and how very poorly Improv-a-Ganza repeats are doing on GSN's Friday nights.
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Ratings Report: Season Highs Across the Syndicated Board, “Feud” Nearly to 5.0
After a lackluster Thanksgiving report last week, the ratings for the week of November 26, 2012 are certainly worth cheering over. Every single show reported a very good viewership number compared to the rest of the season. Wheel of Fortune bounced back nicely, gaining almost 2 million viewers and a full rating over last week. Wheel clocked in with nearly 11.9 million viewers and a 7.5 household rating, beating out mainstay Judge Judy as the number one first-run syndicated show for that week. Jeopardy!, its companion, did very well also. Click here to read numbers for that, plus all of the other syndicated game shows, Take It All and Newlywed Game.
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