TONY Ratings and Advance Sales

[ucjrdude902]

TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#1

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:11pm

Any news on either?

[songanddanceman2]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#2

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:13pm

It got around 7 million viewers

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[iamchanging9]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#2

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:14pm

it averaged 7.7 million viewers

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/06/08/sunday-ratings-abc-nba-finals-game-2/20271

...everyone was doing the mambo and drinking golden cadillacs...

[ucjrdude902]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#3

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:17pm

Is that good?

[songanddanceman2]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#4

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:17pm

No not really, though its a tick up from last year

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[SNAFU]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#5

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:39pm

Says it was nearly unwatched in the coveted 18-49 year old market.

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[LotteTBS138]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#6

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:40pm

Well, there was also game 2 of the NBA finals... I personally was switching back and forth.

I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler

[dramamama611]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#7

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:50pm

Gee....everyone I KNOW that watched is IN that demographic!

And kind of early to hear about it affecting sales.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[SNAFU]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#8

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:54pm

dramamama, perhaps you know all of the 0.81% of the 18-49 year old viewers!

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[frontrowcentre2]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#9

Posted: 6/8/09 at 1:45pm

If you look at the hourly breakdown, The Tonys held most of its audience throughout going from a 7.8 million in the first hour to 7.6 in the 2nd hour to 6.8 in the final hour.

What this breakdown doesn't give is the details of the audience demographic, which traditionally attracts people who rarely watch commercial Television and are desirable to advertisers.

Overall, however, the Tony Awards will never get a mass audience like the Oscars simply because the awards have little relevance outside of the core group of theatre fans.

THe alternative would be to have what we saw online from 7 to 8: a series of awards and speeches with no production numbers, no "razzle dazzle." And maybe that is what some people here would prefer.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

[frontrowcentre2]

re: TONY Ratings and Advance Sales#10

Posted: 6/8/09 at 2:34pm

CBS has announced theitr spin on the ratings:


CBS's broadcast of THE 63RD ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, delivered its best ratings since 2006, posting double digit percentage gains in viewers and key demographics over last year, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Sunday, June 7.

THE TONY AWARDS was second in households (4.9/09) and viewers (7.45m), while averaging a 1.8/05 in adults 25-54 and 1.3/04 in adults 18-49. Compared to last year's ceremony (6/15/08 ), THE TONY AWARDS were up +11% in households (from 4.4/09), +20% in adults 25-54 (from 1.5/04), +18% in adults 18-49 (from 1.1/03) and added +1.18m viewers (from 6.27m, +19%).

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

Updated On: 6/8/09 at 02:34 PM