Wednesday (10/23/13) Ratings Report

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They come from all over the world with one goal in mind to win the crown at season's end and be named the first ever Miss ROD as the eliminations started Wednesday night in Jacksonville. (Miss Roderick Pageant) (Sony Pictures Television)

This is the 49th night of the 2013-14 Television season on Wednesday October 23, 2013.

November Sweeps starts tomorrow. Tonight was the last non-sweeps day until December 2, 2013.


National Division - Major league broadcasting networks that are capable of currently reaching 73% of the world with working television sets. That percentage is expected to grow throughout the season as NITRO gets established in 20 more countries. These networks were apart of the original 8 networks back in the summer of 2009. These networks include ICE, SBC, and ROD.

Federal Division - Netlet or minor league broadcasting networks that are only capable of currently reaching 51% of the world with working television sets. This division is home to most of the new networks and second networks of the National Division studios such as Pink (ICE) and TSN (SBC) and these networks are in their first year NITRO in the 2013-14 television season. These networks include PINK, TSN, and Uniworks. TEN might end up in this division but I have to realign the divisions by Monday and we'll know for sure by then.


NATIONAL DIVISION RATINGS SCALE:

Very Bad: 0-20 million viewers
Bad: 20-35 million viewers
Average: 35-47 million viewers (bubble shows) (goal is 40 million)
Good: 47-65 million viewers
Very Good: 65+ million viewers (blockbuster shows and record ratings players)
Highest: 87.07 million viewers (record established on October 17, 2013 by Youth of Life on ICE)


FEDERAL DIVISION RATINGS SCALE:

Very Bad: 0-10 million viewers
Bad: 10-16 million viewers
Average: 16-25 million viewers (bubble shows) (goal is 20 million)
Good: 25-40 million viewers
Very Good: 40+ million viewers (blockbuster shows and record ratings players)
Highest: 48.59 million viewers (record established on October 4, 2013 by Bella Thorne's Groovy Variety Hour on PDN)


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CEO Ashley Greene (ROD Knockouts), Miss Roderick Pageant (Sony Pictures Television)


FIRST PLACE FINISHES 2013-14 SEASON
1. ICE (8)
2. ROD (1)
3. SBC (1)
4. PDN (0) (8 in Federal)
5. TEN (0) (1 in Federal)
6. TSN (0) (1 in Federal)


On the last night before the first sweeps period of the year starts we had a good showdown between ICE and ROD at the top of the National Division as these two titans had to earn their ratings on Wednesday night.

Unfortunately for ROD they came in second place two weeks in a row against ICE for their first two weeks of live tapings on the road but they got good news earlier in the evening as CEO Ashley Greene found out that her homecoming with draft Sara Sampaio was going to be a success as they reached their first sellout of the season after failing to sellout in Atlanta last week. With that being said ROD grew from last week and is becoming a force on Wednesdays.

Starting with ICE here they had some surprising good news for the second week in a row as Jessica Lowndes continues to test her new comedies on their own and they passed the test again as Babs & Kya led off getting 55 million viewers which is huge for that comedy as ICE is looking to put it in a permanent slot somewhere and could wind up getting in the network's new Kelly Green Tuesdays lineup. Also passing the test was Bastard Kids who had been hiding behind hit comedy Ally the first month of the season and this is another show that will get a permanent slot somewhere getting a mammoth 62 million viewers just like Molly in South Philly last week. So it looks like ICE has some new self-starters to work in their comedy division. These two comedies beat both of the ROD comedies head-to-head and destroyed Miami's Friends on SBC. The usual double combo of bad girls dramas Kelly's Thugs and Chicago's Most Dangerous Bitch got the job done scoring over 60 million viewers leading the way for ICE.

For ROD it was another hot week for them as the switch over to live tapings on the road is working for them just like its worked for ICE all of this time. The Stella Sisters maintained all of their premiere audience from last week as this is turning into a surprising comedy hit for them as The Stella Sisters has had no help in front of it anchoring the lineup. Carrie Underwood's Somethin' Bad succeeded against at 8:30pm but dropping a little bit from last week but still a solid number. The bigger story for ROD came later in the night at 9:30pm when The Adult Years which has been hot lately scored a series-high 54.75 million viewers and that episode included the debut of Vanna Brown as a series regular so she has succeeded both nights as she joined the cast of The L.A. the night before. Right now ROD has a little new star on their hands in Vanna Brown.

PAGEANT BATTLE COMING!

The biggest premiere of the week belonged to "Miss Roderick Pageant" which had its official premiere on Wednesday night live from Jacksonville. ROD obviously did their homework keeping a close eye on the early success of ICE's beauty pageant New Girls in Town and decided to bring in a beauty pageant competition of their own and so far for them this is a huge success. This is a huge accomplishment for ROD because viewers could've easily rolled their eyes at ROD for copying ICE's idea but they didn't because that's what NITRO Television is all about mimicking successes. ROD also struggled to find a major reality competition that would work for them after Super Crews bombed on them this season. ROD never could find the right singing competition either but have hit a goldmine here just like SBC had with American Juniors recently. Miss ROD ended up getting ROD's biggest premiere number of the season nabbing 61.29 million viewers beating the previous high from The L.A. back in late September. Just like ICE, ROD is going to use the show to find new talent for the future. Sara Sampaio actually won Miss Jacksonville back in 2011 and knows what it means to use this competition as a starting point. They were eliminating a 100 models on Wednesday so the show returns tomorrow night for an hour to lead off the night. Since these shows are finding new actors these two pageants might be NITRO's two most important shows of the week every week right now.

SBC had a really bad night as they crashed and Miami's Friends had an off night due to competition but Topanga in the midst of this loser lineup was able to still grow a ton out of Olivia Holt's failed revenge show so that's the good news for them. SBC really needs to reexamine Wednesdays as they have not recovered from their one-week fluke back in September when they premiered a comedy lineup here that succeed but ICE and ROD were like sharks and quickly took that comedy lineup out before it ever got started.

Over in the Federal Division, PDN took last night off but came back with a vengeance reaching one of their biggest ratings nights of the season so far thanks to a couple of special exhibitions from roller derby action which included action featuring Allison Shields on Team Canada taking on the home country Team England grabbing 47.69 million viewers which was actually the second best rating to date in this division only trailing Bella Thorne by about 900,000 viewers. The story of the day earlier was about Jessica Lowndes potentially leaving the NFL to dry as she's been very successful in helping create their own sporting leagues and this is one of the reasons why they are going to do so.

TSN came in fifth place and gained another point giving them 9 points on the season but they have an issue here since their main network is struggling on Wednesdays right now. American Juniors which does way better on SBC on Tuesdays may need to move to SBC permanently but the problem is American Juniors is a huge money maker for TSN so this is the dilemma they have right now. CSI: LA did very well at 10pm. TEN took the night off as well as they'll need to find a block of shows on this night as Wednesdays are wide open in this division. Nobody watches Uniworks! LOL!

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BIGGEST PREMIERE: Starting on Thursday launches the first sweeps period of the new season so expect to see a lot of huge special events scheduled throughout the next month but the night before sweeps starts ROD will have the honors of this week's biggest premiere as they will roll out their new series "Miss Roderick Pageant" which is a new beauty queen competition being produced to take on the success of this season's most surprising successful new program "New Girls in Town Pageant" over on ICE which has revolutionized the start of a brand new type of reality competition and variety show. ROD is hoping that they will be able to take some shine away from ICE's pageant after a bad run the past 5 years of finding a compatible opponent for The Carpenters Hour just like SBC as well. Miss Roderick Pageant start its run live on Wednesday live from Jacksonville eliminating at least 100 contestants and will continue on Thursday when sweeps starts getting rid of 25 more of them.


THURSDAY: It's that time of year again when the first sweeps period of the season starts as November Sweeps launches on Thursday and the Must See TV lineup returns as the Paramount Pretty Comedies are back live this time for the first time this season over in jolly ol' London, England across the Atlantic. The lineup will be pre-empted next Thursday for Scary ICE Night so they are running Halloween themed episodes for their hit comedies as Scary ICE week launches which include Youth of Life which is currently NITRO's most watched program. New Girls in Town Pageant closes its audition process for this season. The Miss Roderick Pageant continues over on ROD still live from Jacksonville.

Sam & Brian: Friends
Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Chelsea Kane
SBC-TV (Channel 4)
Friday October 25, 2013
12:30a-1:00a

FRIDAY: If it's Friday then it must be another good showdown between ROD and SBC and Fridays mean that ROD's evil cold duo of Sheila Carter and Quinn Fuller are back to kill off more victims in the Los Angeles area in this increasing popular primetime soap that has fueled ROD's Friday lineup into a top 5 lineup of the week taking the shine away from SBC's TGIF lineup as they scramble to improve their ratings for the night around their three-headed monster of Full House, Step By Step, and Topanga but on Friday that lineup is pre-empted by the World Series but Full House and Step By Step will get special late night airings at 11pm so this could be good as the comedies were down last week against ROD's new monsters The Stella Sisters and Somethin' Bad. Also at midnight against Country Made, SBC will give Topanga and the premiere of Sam & Brian: Friends special airings as well. Bella Thorne's hit variety series is currently on hiatus airing its final episode for a minute last week so that gives Sara Sampaio the opening she needs but ICE is going to be real strong for the first time this season as The Carpenters Hour airs its first Friday edition for the first time this season as they near the close of their audition process looking for talent in England and before that PM North America has a special edition documenting the auditioners who made it this season from tomorrow's pageant in Boston at 9pm.

Tahj & Malena Sex Show
Tahj Mowry, Malena Morgan
ICE-TV (Channel 7)
Saturday October 26, 2013
12:37a-2:09a

SATURDAY: The first big special event scheduled inside of this sweeps period will be "Tahj & Malena Sexy Show" which will be coming to you live from New England in Boston, Massachusetts at the TD Garden which is already sold out. The sex special features sexy pornstar Malena Morgan and her partner Tahj Mowry from Bastard Kids and New Girls in Town Pageant also guest music performers include hometown heroes The Bee Gees, New Edition, Bill Bev DeVoe, and New Kids on the Block to sex up the night. This will be the first sex special to feature co-genders involved in the show. Since Tahj Mowry came over to ICE he has been on fire with his popularity growing and he is likely to appear somewhere on the top 100 actors list that comes out on November 11th during Night of Champions he is currently ICE's fourth top male in the studio as of right now. Tahj Mowry has a busy night though as earlier in the night he has to host the callbacks in the pageant known as Boston Suicides due to its quick pace nature selection process. G. Hannelius comes back home as she officially becomes an official regular on Youth of Life. Later in the night Pretty Thieves prepares its move over to PDN with its final original airing on ICE. The network premiere of "Heather 2" airs on PDN for Scary ICE and the premiere of those same pageant contestants lives will be followed on the series premiere of New Girls in Town After Dark at 2am. Austin Mahone's new late night show will debut at 1:32am as he makes his official SBC debut.

SUNDAY: It's been a long 8 weeks but The Carpenters Hour finally closes its audition process in Boston as boot camp starts on Tuesday and after that on ICE a Halloween event like no other takes place live as Overnight Nurses has its first annual Halloween special in the Haunted Hospital. ROD rolls out its dramas again and will give daytime soap "LA Passions" the 10pm boost. On the SBC networks we will have a switch due to the World Series airing on SBC and Sunday Night Football which comes off of a record audience last week airs on limited TSN. Diff'rent Strokes and Gimme a Break! gets the World Series boost.


NEXT WEEK (OCTOBER 28-NOVEMBER 3, 2013): November Sweeps kicks off into high-gear with a full week of action starting with the huge premiere of the new revolutionary mystery soap opera "Who Wanted Nichole Dead?" where you the viewers follow the clues and figure out who wanted Nichole dead. Keeping it with ICE here they have a huge week for their reality competitions as both The Carpenters Hour and New Girls in Town Pageant go through the grind of boot camp and the infamous and intimidating Detroit Week which a lot of people have explained to be the best week of television you will ever experience with Detroit Week if you want to see the pressures of making it to the big show this is it. On Halloween night we will have the premiere of a few new TV movie events such as the highly-anticipated Halloween reboot "Hospitality" as Michael Myers' niece wrecks havoc all over a Chicago hospital to find her uncle Mike and the 3-year wait for the sequel of "Girl Games 2" are both coming out and ROD will be unleashing "When a Stranger Calls IV" and "Angela" which is a Sleepaway Camp reboot doubleheader event along with a special Thursday episode of Sheila Carter. Over on SBC they will have the huge series premiere of the Janit O'Day spin-off "Heather" you can catch the 3-day premiere event on Friday and Saturday also. Speaking of Janit O'Day franchise shows Pretty Thieves moves over to PDN on Tuesday with Fugitive at 17.

FUTURE NOTABLE PREMIERE (OCTOBER 31, 2013): The scariest female in the world is serial murderer and rapist Heather Daniels and for the first time in 5-years a non-ICE network will be airing original episodes of a Janit O'Day franchise series as SBC premieres the horror drama in a special 3-day event starting on Thursday then on its regular nights of Friday and Saturday. She looks to take the title away from Sheila Carter as the weekend's most fearful villain.

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When do we begin voting for Night Of Champions?

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You know what we can start the process on that now with the studios submitting their nominations.

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Ashley Greene (CEO): We had a great night in Jacksonville as it was a good homecoming and we're loving the start for Miss Roderick.

Sara Sampaio: I just want to thank everybody's support in Jacksonville this week it was so sweet to be back home.