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The Daily Diary Of Screens #dailydiaryofscreens 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺💻📱📺🎬🌎🗺️🇮🇳. For Sunday, May 6, 2018. This is your North America, Central America, South America, India, UK and Australian Daily Television Ratings Platform.
In the U.S., CBS #1 broadcast network as ‘60 Minutes‘ was the top program.
In the U.S., UNI #1 Hispanic network as ‘Al Final Todo Queda en Familia‘ premiere was the top program.
In the UK, BBC One #1 broadcast network as ‘Antiques Roadshow‘ was the top program/soap.
In Australia, Seven #1 broadcast network as ‘My Kitchen Rules Grand Final‘ was the top broadcast program and ‘Seven News‘ #1 newscast.
‘Avengers: Infinity War‘ was the #1 film at the domestic box office this weekend. See Below.
‘Avengers: Infinity War‘ was the #1 film at the international box office this weekend. See Below.
In Canada, CTV Total #1 network week of 16-22 April 2018 as ‘The Big Bang Theory‘ with 3.192 million viewers was the #1 program in Canada.
In Canada, TVA #1 network week of 16-22 April 2018 as ‘La Voix‘ with 1.784 million viewers was the #1 program in Québec
In Argentina (AR), Telefe #1 broadcast network as ‘Por el Mundo Singapur‘ was the top program 6 May 2018.
In Uruguay (UL), Telemundo was the #1 broadcast networks as ‘Súbete a mi moto‘ was the top program 6 May 2018.
In Chile (CL), MEGA #1 broadcast network as ‘Verdades Ocultas‘ premiere was the top program 6 May 2018.
In Perú (PE), ‘AméricaTV‘ #1 broadcast network as ‘Ojitos hechiceros‘ top program 3 May 2018 with 1.3 million viewers.
In Colombia (CO), Caracol #1 broadcast network as ‘Séptimo día‘ top program 6 May 2018.
In México (MX), Canal 5 #1 broadcast network as ‘fútbol‘ finale was the top Méxican program 3 May 2018 with 2.8 million viewers.
In India (IN), Star Sports 1 Hindi #1 Hindi broadcast network as ZEE TV’s ‘Kundali Bhagya‘ was the top program with 6.892 million impressions and ‘Comedy Central‘ was the #1 English broadcast network (341,000 impressions) during week #17 on 21-27 April 2018.
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‘Avengers:Infinity War‘ #1 at the U.S. box office weekend 4-6 May 2018. Complete box office Top Ten this weekend listed below.
Rampage #1 at the International box office weekend 4-6 May 2018. Complete box office Top Ten this weekend listed below.
This Weekend in 1943, ‘Five Graves to Cairo‘ directed by Roy William Neill and starred Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce an Marjorie Lord. The film was the fifth in the series.
This weekend in 1943, ‘‘I’ve Heard That Song Before’‘ Harry James and His Orchestra with Helen Forrest was the #1 record. This was the Tenth of 12 straight weeks at #1 on Billboard.
The latest social media stats include this: Americans spend 25% of their time on social media.YouTube has viewers now watch 1 billion hours of video each day. 85% of digital video viewers will be YouTube viewers as daily usage of YouTube, is estimated the video-sharing platform will reach 185.9 million monthly US users in 2017. YouTube overall, and even YouTube on mobile alone, reaches more 18-34 and 18-49 year-olds than any cable network in the U.S. Facebook having 2.047 billion monthly active users watching 8 billion videos each day. 100 million hours of video content are watched on Facebook daily. In addition, 81% of all shares come from Facebook. 41% of Millennials use Facebook every day. And, there are now 5 million active advertisers on its platform, up from 4 million in September 2016 and 2 million in February 2015. Instagram has 700 million users of which 250 million are daily users. 51% of Instagram users access the platform daily and 35% say they look at the platform several times per day. Most Instagram users are between 18-29 years old. 88% of Twitter users are on mobile. An average of 500 million tweets are sent every day with 330 million active users. Twitter had 6 million new members sign up in Q1 2018. It now has 336 million monthly active users. 81% of millennials check Twitter at least once per day. The Google+1 button is hit 5 billion times per day. 80% of Internet users on Pinterest are female. Eighty-one percent of US consumers use Facebook regularly, compared with Google (79%), Twitter (43%) and Instagram (40%), System1 Research reported.
Pinterest has 110 million monthly active users. 93% of Pinterest users use the platform to plan or make purchases. Pinterest drives 25% of all retail website referral traffic. LinkedIn has 450 million registered members with 100 million active users who spend 17 minutes per month on the site. Tumblr has 555 million users and Weibo has 100 million daily users. Skype has 300 milllion active users and there are 1.000 billion users on Whatsapp. With 900 million active users on Facebook Messenger, 60 billion messages are sent via Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp every day, each with over 1 billion daily users. Netflix now has 75 million streaming subscribers. QQ has 853 million active users. WeChat has 697 million active users while QZone has 640 million. Baidu Tieba has 300 million active users while Viber has 249 million. Sina Weibo has 222 million active users while Line has 215 million. Snapchat has 200 million users and 150 million users are active each day, watching 10 billion videos each day. Over 400 million snaps are shared on Snapchat per day, and almost 9,000 photos are shared every second. YY has 122 million active users; VKontakte has 100 million active users as does BBM and Telegram. Of note, Almost 80% of time spent on social media platforms happens on mobile.
Twitter Releases Major Events Calendar for May to Assist with Strategic Planning. May is here already? To help with your strategic planning, and enable you to tap into relevant events, Twitter has released its latest monthly calendar, which outlines all the major dates to be aware of, along with their relative tweet volume, showing you where the platform’s audience is most engaged.
Remember, social media marketing isn’t always the tech. It’s the people.
Today, traditional TV still accounts for the lion’s share of video viewing, but online and mobile are where the growth is. When managed together, TV/digital/mobile hold the potential to drive real impact for advertisers—enabling them to maximize the customers they reach and/or reinforce key messaging across screens. After all, ‘It’s all about screens’.
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For Sunday, May 6, 2018 (Posted on May 7, 2018)
According to Nielsen’s National Television Household Universe Estimates, there are 119.6 million TV homes in the U.S. for the 2017-18 TV season.
CBS
The Tiffany Network finished #1 with the strongest Sunday lineup top to bottom.
7P ‘60 Minutes‘ finished #1 overall program Sunday in prime time with an average 8.912 million viewers.
8P ‘Instinct‘ finished with an average 6.974 million viewers.
9P ‘NCIS:Los Angeles‘ finished with an average 7.694 million viewers. Extraordinary well written episode with traces of ‘Moonlighting’.
10P ‘Madam Secretary‘ finished #1 in the time slot with an average 5.921 million viewers.
ABC
The Alphabet Network was powered by ‘American Idol’ which won two hours. Scheduling the program ‘LIVE’ throughout the nation: Genius!
7P ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos‘ finished with an average 5.526 million viewers.
8P ‘American Idol‘ finished #1 in the time slot with an average 7.979 million viewers. Airing live throughout the nation, like a sporting event, ‘Idol’ won both hours of its time slots.
9P ‘American Idol‘ finished with an average 7.761 million viewers. The final 5 are revealed.
10P ‘Deception‘ finished with an average 3.391 million viewers.
NBC
The Peacock Network died on the vine Sunday/
7P ‘Dateline NBC‘ finished with an average 3.167 million viewers.
8P ‘Genius Junior‘ finished with an average 2.789 million viewers.
9P ‘Genius Junior‘ finished with an average 2.749 million viewers.
10P ‘Timeless‘ finished with an average 2.259 million viewers.
FOX
The Animal Network of Broadcast brought us animation domination minus two
7P ‘Bob’s Burgers‘ rerun finished with an average 1.024 million viewers.
730P ‘Bob’s Burgers‘ finished with an average 1.515 million viewers.
8P ‘The Simpsons‘ finished with an average 2.098 million viewers.
830P ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘ finished with an average 1.654 million viewers.
9P ‘Family Guy‘ finished with an average 1.928 million viewers.
930P ‘Last Man On Earth‘ finished with an average 1.708 million viewers.
For The Record
CBS finished #1 in prime time Sunday with an average 7.375 million viewers.
ABC finished with an average 6.164 million viewers.
NBC finished with an average 2.741 million viewers.
FOX finished with an average 1.655 million viewers.
UNI Finished #1 Hispanic network Sunday with an average 1.186 million viewers.
TEL finished with an average 792,000 viewers.
Broadcast (Big Four) Networks finished with an estimated 17.935 million viewers, DOWN -1.879 million viewers (-9.5%) vs 19.814 million viewers SD 2017.
Today In Communication History
On this date in 1947, the ‘Kraft Television Theater‘ premiered on NBC. The program was broadcast live from Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, currently the home of ‘Saturday Night Live’. It ran until 1958. A prestige show for NBC, it launched the careers of more than a few actors, directors and playwrights, including future Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress Hope Lange. Actors on the series included James Dean, Janet De Gore, Colleen Dewhurst, Anne Francis, Lee Grant, Helen Hayes, Jack Lemmon, Grace Kelly, Jack Klugman, Cloris Leachman, Patrick McVey, Michael Higgins, John Newland, Paul Newman, Leslie Nielsen, Anthony Perkins, Judson Pratt, Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Rod Steiger, Joan Tompkins (her first television role), and Joanne Woodward. Announcers for the show were Ed Herlihy (1947–1955) and Charles Stark (1955). In 1958, young performers Martin Huston and Zina Bethune appeared in “This Property Is Condemned”, based on a Tennessee Williams play, the last show of Kraft Television Theatre. Directors for the series included Sidney Lumet, George Roy Hill, Fielder Cook, and John Boulting, and the many contributing writers included Rod Serling and JP Miller. Serling won an Emmy for scripting Patterns (January 12, 1955), the best remembered episode of the series. The drama had such an impact that it made television history by staging a second live encore performance three weeks later and was developed as a feature film, also titled ‘Patterns’. It is shown above in its entirety.
Quote Of The Day
‘There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.’
Rod Serling
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Box Office Weekend 4-6 May 2018 Domestic
#1 ‘Avengers:Infinity War’ $114,6774,810 in 4,474 theaters
#2 ‘Overboard’ $ 14,711,101 in 1,623 theaters
#3 ‘A Quiet Place’ $ 7,763,085 in 3,413 theaters
#4 ‘I Feel Pretty’ $ 5,050,520 in 3,232 theaters
#5 ‘Rampage’ $ 4,637,400 in 3,151 theaters
#6 ‘Tully’ $ 3,282,610 in 1,353 theaters
#7 ‘Black Panther’ $ 3,254,977 in 1,641 theaters
#8 ‘Truth Or Dare’ $ 1,887,970 in 1,904 theaters
#9 ‘Super Troopers 2’ $ 1,871,303 in 2,118 theaters
#10 ‘Blockers’ $ 1,751,340 in 1,672 theaters
Box Office Weekend 27-29 April 2018 (International)
#1 ‘Avengers:Invinity War’ $382,700,000 in 52 markets
#2 ‘Rampage’ $ 16,200,000 in 61 markets
#3 ‘Ready Player One’ $ 8,600,000 in 63 markets
#4 ‘A Quiet Place’ $ 6,600,000 in 57 markets
#5 ‘Peter Rabbit’ $ 5,700,000 in 55 markets
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In the UK, Peak time is defined as Early Peak is 17:30 to 20:00 and Late Peak is 20:00 to 23:00.
Across The Pond
BBC One
The Big One finished #1 broadcast network Sunday evening in the UK.
7P ‘Countryfile‘ finished with an average 4.0 million viewers.
8P ‘Antiques Roadshow‘ finished #1 program in the UK Sunday with an average 4.3 million viewers.
9P ‘The Woman In White‘ finished with an average 3.0 million viewers.
BBC Two
The Little Two
7P ‘Snooker:The World Championship‘
ITV
The Independent One
7P ‘Little Big Shots‘ finished with an average 1.7 million viewers.
8P ‘The Durrells‘ finished with an average 3.6 million viewers.
9P ‘Who Want’s To Be A Millionaire‘ finished #1 in the time slot with an average 3.8 million viewers.
Channel 4
The Big Four
7P ‘The Crystal Maze‘
8P ‘Bake Off: The Professionals‘ finished with an average 2.0 million viewers.
9P ‘Homeland‘ (‘Paean To The People’)
Channel 5
The Viacom Five
7P ‘Britain’s Favourite Abba Songs‘
8P ‘5 Goes to Eurovision: Greatest Hits‘
9P ‘5 Goes To Eurovision: When Things Go Horribly Wrong‘
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NOTE: While Australian considers Prime Time 6P-Midnight, we use the US prime time system to measure television effectiveness in Australia. Thus 7P-10P is the standard from which this rating is based. Newscasts are considered only as newscasts and not television programs inside or outside of this period except in special periods. The % share is based on the Australian Prime Time 6P-Midnight period.
Seven
The Second Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 38.8% share.
7P ‘My Kitchen Rules‘ finished #1 program Sunday evening with an average 1.543 million viewers.
830P ‘My Kitchen Rules‘ Grand Final finished with an average 1.368 million viewers.
910P ‘Sunday Night‘ finished with an average 683,000 viewers.
945P ‘An Hour To Catch A Killer‘ finished with an average 342,000 viewers.
Nine
The First Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 30.9% share.
7P ‘The Voice‘ finished with an average 1.019 million viewers.
842P ‘60 Minutes‘ finished with an average 707,000 viewers.
941P ‘Murdered By My Daughter‘ finished with an average 305,000 viewers.
Ten
The CBS Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 6.0% share.
630P ‘The Sunday Project‘ fdid not finish in the top 20 programs.
730P ‘All Star Family Feud‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
830P ‘NCIS‘ (‘One Step Forward’) finished with an average 251,000 viewers.
930P ‘Seal Team’ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
ABC
The Alphabet Network in Australia finished with a 14.4% share.
741P ‘Joanna And Jennifer:Absolutely Champers‘ finished with an average 511,000 viewers.
844P ‘Midsomer Murders‘ finished with an average 344,000 viewers.
SBS
The Special Broadcast Service in Australia finished with a 5.4% share.
730P ‘The Celts‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
840P ‘Red Obsession‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
Top Newscasts In Australia
#1 SEVEN NEWS – SUN Seven 1,140,000 viewers #1 in Brisbane, Adelaide & Perth
#2 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Nine 1,057,000 viewers #1 in Sydney & Melbourne
#3 ABC NEWS SUNDAY-EV ABC 636,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#4 EYEWITNESS NEWS SUN Ten 281,000 viewers Melbourne top market
MONDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS
Monday Australian Overnight TV Ratings
MONDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS
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NOTE: While Australian considers Prime Time 6P-Midnight, we use the US prime time system to measure television effectiveness in Australia. Thus 7P-10P is the standard from which this rating is based. Newscasts are considered only as newscasts and not television programs inside or outside of this period except in special periods. The % share is based on the Australian Prime Time 6P-Midnight period.
Nine
The First Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 28.6% share.
7P ‘A Current Affair‘ finished with an average 912,000 viewers.
730P ‘The Voice‘ finished with an average 948,000 viewers.
920P ‘Stan Walker:Fight Of His Life‘ finished with an average 397,000 viewers.
Seven
The Second Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 26.5% share.
7P ‘Home and Away‘ finished with an average 693,000 viewers.
730P ‘House Rules‘ finished with an average 607,000 viewers.
9P ‘The Mentor‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs
Ten
The CBS Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 20.5% share.
7P ‘The Project‘ finished with an average 587,000 viewers.
730P ‘Masterchef Australia‘ season premiere finished with an average 890,000 viewers.
915P ‘Roseanne‘ finished with an average 401,000 viewers.
945P ‘2017 Montreal Comedy Festival‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs
ABC
The Alphabet Network in Australia finished with a 16.8% share.
730P ‘7.30 Report‘ finished with an average 616,000 viewers.
801P ‘Australian Story‘ finished with an average 542,000 viewers.
833P ‘Four Corners‘ finished with an average 511,000 viewers.
918P ‘Media Watch‘ finished with an average 528,000 viewers.
935P ‘Q&A‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs
SBS
The Special Broadcast Service in Australia finished with a 7.6% share.
735P ‘Elizabeth‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
830P ‘Michael Mosley: Trust Me, I’m A Doctor‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
930P ‘24 Hours In Emergency‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
Top Newscasts In Australia
#1 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,098,000 viewers #1 in Adelaide & Perth
#2 SEVEN NEWS/TT Seven 1,069,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#3 NINE NEWS Nine 1,028,000 viewers #1 in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane
#4 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine 1,016,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#5 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 749,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#6 EYEWITNESS NEWS Ten 483,000 viewers Melbourne top market
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