{"id":9126,"date":"2015-10-14T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2015-10-16T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:30:36","slug":"cubs-deliver-top-ratings-to-nbc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/10\/14\/cubs-deliver-top-ratings-to-nbc-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs' joy delivers top ratings to NBC 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"NBC<\/a>

<\/a> NBC 5 (October 13, 2015)<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicagoans celebrated the Cubs division series-clinching\u00a0win Tuesday night by turning to television, of course.<\/p>\n

Local news viewership peaked at 10 p.m., with more than 830,572 households in the Chicago area tuned to one of the four late newscasts covering the jubilant aftermath of the historic victory at Wrigley Field, according to Nielsen figures.<\/p>\n

NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 <\/a>led with an 8.2 rating and 13.2 share at 10 p.m., followed by ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7<\/a> with a 7.6 rating and 12.3 share, CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> with a 3.6 rating and 5.7 share, and Tribune Media WGN-Channel 9<\/a> with a 2.6 rating and 4.2 share. One rating point represents 34,752 households; share is percent of sets in use.<\/p>\n

NBC 5\u2019s late-news victory was more pronounced among viewers between 25 and 54, the advertiser-coveted demographic. At 10 p.m. NBC 5 scored a 4.6 rating in the adult demo, followed by ABC 7\u2019s 2.7 rating, CBS 2\u2019s 1.2 rating and WGN\u2019s 0.8 rating.<\/p>\n

NBC 5\u2019s lead-in to the news was the season premiere of the NBC series \u201cChicago Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

While NBC 5, ABC 7 and WGN preempted their primetime programming until 8 p.m., CBS 2 took heat<\/a> for its decision not to broadcast wall-to-wall coverage immediately after the Cubs victory. Instead the station directed viewers to its live streaming online and broke in to the CBS series \u201cNCIS\u201d intermittently.<\/p>\n

As usual Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32<\/a> was pretty much a non-factor. At 9 p.m. Fox 32 had a 1.8 rating and 2.7 share, compared with WGN\u2019s 4.4 rating and 6.6 share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicagoans celebrated the Cubs division series-clinching\u00a0win Tuesday night by turning to television, of course. Local news viewership peaked at 10 p.m., with more than 830,572 households in the Chicago area tuned to one of the four late newscasts covering the jubilant aftermath of the historic victory at Wrigley Field, according to Nielsen figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9152,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions\/9152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}