Monday, July 16, 2012

I'm going to take Ben's word for it.

Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef were tops, while Fear Factor and American Ninja Warrior were up a few tenths from last week's lows.

The Bachelorette's tell-all special was down a few tenths from last week's regular episode. The season finale airs this Sunday, and Bachelor Pad takes its place next Monday. The Glass House fell to a new low.

rating	show	slot	network	last week	season low	series low
0.4	The Batmobile	8pm	CW
0.8	The Glass House episode 5	10pm	ABC	1.0	0.8
1.5	Fear Factor "Leeches & Shaved Heads & Tear Gas, Oh My! Part 2"	8pm	NBC	1.4	1.4
1.8	American Ninja Warrior Finals, part 2	9pm	NBC	1.4	1.4
2.2	The Bachelorette 8 "The Men Tell All"	8-10pm	ABC	2.5	1.9	1.7
2.6	MasterChef top 9	9pm	FOX	2.5	2.1	1.8
2.6	Hell's Kitchen 8 chefs	8pm	FOX	2.5	2.0	2.0
0.2	rerun - Remodeled "Modeling Agency or Modeling School?"	9pm	CW	0.2
0.4	rerun - The Batmobile	8:30	CW
0.8	rerun - Grimm "Last Grimm Standing"	10pm	NBC	0.6
1.1	rerun - How I Met Your Mother "The Stinson Missile Crisis"	8pm	CBS	1.3	3.1	2.5 (3)
1.1	rerun - Hawaii Five-0 "Pu'olo"	10pm	CBS	1.1	2.3 (2)	2.3 (2)
1.2	rerun - Mike & Molly "Mike Likes Lasagna"	9:30	CBS	1.2	2.9	2.3
1.2	rerun - Two and a Half Men "Those Fancy Japanese Toilets"	9pm	CBS	1.3	3.6 (2)	3.6 (3)
1.2	rerun - 2 Broke Girls "And the Reality Check"	8:30	CBS	1.3	3.3

sources: spotted ratings and tv by the numbers

Programming Notes

Web series now have select listings on USAToday.com.

Current episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (and other Viacom shows) are back on their sites after being pulled last week.

CBS Gains Three Affiliates

CBS will add three more affiliates this Fall, in the tiny markets of Parkersburg, West Virginia, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Panama City, Florida, on stations owned by Gray Television. CBS has more than 200 affiliates, and Gray now operates 19.

WIYE 47 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, will launch at the end of Summer, along with a second station, WOVA, the new home of FOX. MyNetworkTV will move to one of WIYE's digital subchannels. Gray's WTAP, an NBC affiliate, currently carries FOX and My on its subchannels. The area has been served by CBS affiliates WBNS 10 in Columbus, Ohio, and WOWK 13 in Charleston, West Virginia.

WSVF 43 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is currently silent, but will relaunch this Fall. The station had been a translator for religious channel WAZT since its sign-on in 1995 before being bought by Gray in June. Gray also owns Harrisonsburg's WHSV 3, an ABC affiliate which carries FOX and MyNetworkTV and ThisTV on its digital subchannels. The area has been served by CBS affiliates WUSA 9 in Washington, D.C., WTVR 6 in Richmond, Virginia, and WDBJ 7 in Roanoke, Virginia.

WECP 18 in Panama City, Florida, will launch in September. It will share facilities with Gray's WJHG 7, the local NBC affiliate which also carries The CW and MyNetworkTV on its digital subchannels. The area has been served by CBS affiliate WTVY 4 in Dothan, Alabama.