GSN ratings from GSN

[Lingofan97]

GSN has released official numbers on some of their ratings on their corporate page.

The press release states that the $25,000 Pyramid hour on Saturday, honoring Dick Clark saw ratings up 32% from regular episodes that air now. On Sunday, April 22, Harvey Feud at 5:30pm received 587,000 viewers, and 5th Grader later that night at 8pm received 742,000 viewers, a 6-year network high.

We will have to see what the official ratings say from The Son of The Bronx sometime this week or early next week.

[gsguy12]

Good to see some good ratings for the network. Also, I must say that if the Dick Clark tribute 25,000 Pyramid shows in the weekend time block (starting at 12pm) saw a 32% increase in that 25-54 demo, that is great news. And that right there proves that its not just "all people over 60+ who watch the older game shows". Maybe that will convince GSN to make adjustments to the weekends with some older shows, perhaps? Yes, I know it was a tribute, but still it shows some younger audiences like to watch the older shows. GSN wouldn't state in the press release that 25,000 Pyramid got 32% a increase in the demos, if it weren't true.

[Gameheadz]

Holy cow. GSN IS back from the dead thanks to Dick Clark's death.

[espnews26]

Interesting they don't reveal anything else. I guess the rest must be bad.
It took them 6 years to achieve 700k+? What in 2006 equaled that?

GSN IS back from the dead thanks to Dick Clark's death.

//Face Palm

[wayne3924]

Yeah, let's not get carried away. Things will return to "normal" with the schedule back as it is.

[SpeedAndStrategy]

This was just a one week event though, with only two airings. I just don't think that GSN has a big attitude to air classics anytime on weekends. But if they were too, I would say leave the morning schedule. Whammy! does well, and I'm assuming Chain Reaction is too.

Yeah, I don't think GSN would achieve these types of ratings every week with Pyramid on weekend afternoons. But it might be worth a shot.

It took them 6 years to achieve 700k+? What in 2006 equaled that?

Probably one of the documentaries.

Yeah, let's not get carried away. Things will return to "normal" with the schedule back as it is.

Well, Harvey Feud does seem to be doing really well for itself, and helping the ratings of other shows as evidenced by that 5th Grader number. I guess it goes to show that all GSN really needed was a hot new acquisition in order to recover from the setback that Improv-a-Ganza helped start.

[Lingofan97]

Interesting they don't reveal anything else. I guess the rest must be bad.
It took them 6 years to achieve 700k+? What in 2006 equaled that?

Unless we're talking about the block scheduling, I still don't consider GSN's ratings poor. It's a small network that only 63% of households get and game shows don't attract too many viewers. We would see higher daytime numbers with acquisitions of Eubanks' The Newlywed Game and Wheel of Fortune, but from now on good GSN numbers are above 200K daytime and 300K prime time.

[Xavier1989]

Interesting they don't reveal anything else. I guess the rest must be bad.
It took them 6 years to achieve 700k+? What in 2006 equaled that?

The last two things to get over 700K+ viewers on GSN were Behind The Blank and The Tonya Harding Anything to Win.

[CaseyAbell]

The last two things to get over 700K+ viewers on GSN were Behind The Blank and The Tonya Harding Anything to Win.

Wrong. The first Bob Eubanks ep of GSN's Newlywed Game on January 7, 2010 got 718K viewers. That was the last published 700K+ number on the network. Baggage and Family Feud occasionally came close in subsequent published weeks. Baggage got 690K on November 17, 2010, for instance.

But a lot of weeks went unpublished since January, 2010. So there may have been later 700K+ numbers we don't know about. Maybe the most remarkable recent ratings performance was a regular episode of Wheel of Fortune which somehow pulled 672K viewers at 2:00PM in the afternoon on Black Friday, November 26, 2010.

That's a little better than GSN usually does at 2:00PM.

[Lingofan97]

Good to see some good ratings for the network. Also, I must say that if the Dick Clark tribute 25,000 Pyramid shows in the weekend time block (starting at 12pm) saw a 32% increase in that 25-54 demo, that is great news. And that right there proves that its not just "all people over 60+ who watch the older game shows". Maybe that will convince GSN to make adjustments to the weekends with some older shows, perhaps? Yes, I know it was a tribute, but still it shows some younger audiences like to watch the older shows. GSN wouldn't state in the press release that 25,000 Pyramid got 32% a increase in the demos, if it weren't true.

This was just a one week event though, with only two airings. I just don't think that GSN has a big attitude to air classics anytime on weekends. But if they were too, I would say leave the morning schedule. Whammy! does well, and I'm assuming Chain Reaction is too.