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    SciFi Wire: SCI FI Reports Record Year

    From SciFi Wire:

    http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/i...ory=0&id=30024

    12:00 AM, 29-DECEMBER-04


    SCI FI Reports Record Year

    SCI FI Channel reported that 2004 was the network's highest-rated and
    most-watched year yet and the third-consecutive year the channel has
    broken its own prime-time ratings records. The channel reported its
    best-ever prime-time household ratings (1.0, or 1.2 million viewers)
    on average for the year, a 4 percent increase over the previous year.

    SCI FI also reported ranking within the top 10 of all basic cable
    networks in ratings among key demographics, including persons aged 25-
    54, men 25-54, persons 18-49, men 18-49 and women 25-54. SCI FI
    ranked eighth in household ratings among all measured, non-news, ad-
    supported basic cable networks in prime time.

    Other ratings highlights:

    •SCI FI reported an average 1.0 rating and more than 1 million
    viewers in prime time in every quarter of 2004, a milestone reached
    over six consecutive quarters.

    •SCI FI delivered more persons aged 18-34 and 2-17 in prime time than
    in any other year in the network's history.

    •SCI FI proved itself a prime-time destination for families,
    reporting a 21 percent jump among viewers aged 18 and under compared
    with 2003.

    •The July 16 premiere of Stargate Atlantis was the highest-rated and
    most-watched single episode of any series ever on SCI FI and was also
    the first episode of any SCI FI series to deliver ratings over 3.0
    and viewership over 4 million.

    •The premiere of SCI FI Channel's original miniseries Legend of
    Earthsea averaged a 3.2 household rating (3.7 million viewers) over
    two consecutive nights.

    •Legend of Earthsea was the highest-rated and most-watched program in
    cable prime time on Dec. 13 and 14. SCI FI was also the number-one
    network on cable in combined ratings and delivery on those two days.
    The second part of the miniseries was the highest-rated program to
    air on SCI FI in 2004.

    •The two-night, four-hour premiere of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
    on Oct. 17 and 18 averaged a 1.7 household rating (1.9 million
    viewers), making SCI FI the number-one non-sports cable network among
    persons aged 25-54 and 18-49 for its time period over the two nights.

    •SCI FI's miniseries thriller 5ive Days to Midnight kept a total
    audience of nearly 9 million viewers over four consecutive nights,
    June 7-10.

    Among SCI FI's original series:

    •Driven by the success of new Stargate SG-1 companion series Stargate
    Atlantis, the channel reported its best summer ever, with a record-
    breaking 1.1 household rating for June-August.

    •The summer season of Stargate Atlantis averaged a 2.3 household
    rating and nearly 3 million viewers, making it SCI FI's highest-rated
    original series ever.

    •The Oct. 6 premiere of Ghost Hunters earned a 1.4 household rating
    (1.1 million viewers), making it the most-watched Wednesday-night
    program on the network since January 2003 and ranking it in the top
    10 of most-watched Wednesday programs in the channel's history.

    •The March 4 premiere of Tripping the Rift got a 1.8 household rating
    (2 million viewers), setting several SCI FI records and beating the
    1997 series premiere of Comedy Central's South Park.


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    #2
    Wow. That's impressive. Let's hope they keep it up!

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      #3
      Skiffy, like all networks, spins like the devil.

      For example, one can have lower ratings and still reach a record number of people if the number of markets/sets that your channel actually appears on increases. They've used that trick before to state a "record" audience before, so it may be in effect now as well.

      That's just one example of double-speak. I'm not dissing the performance of Stargate, which has done well. But one also must remember this is the network that has brought us not ONE, not TWO, but THREE movies about the dreaded Snakehead Fish, and has an equal number of movies about mosquitos, and other B- movie of the weak (pun intended) topics.

      In other words... this is typical hype for this outfit, and it should be read as such.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Darth Buddha
        Skiffy, like all networks, spins like the devil.

        For example, one can have lower ratings and still reach a record number of people if the number of markets/sets that your channel actually appears on increases. They've used that trick before to state a "record" audience before, so it may be in effect now as well.

        That's just one example of double-speak. I'm not dissing the performance of Stargate, which has done well. But one also must remember this is the network that has brought us not ONE, not TWO, but THREE movies about the dreaded Snakehead Fish, and has an equal number of movies about mosquitos, and other B- movie of the weak (pun intended) topics.

        In other words... this is typical hype for this outfit, and it should be read as such.
        I will admit that some of their "Original" movies have been pretty much hit or miss, but for some dumb reason I usually end up watching at least part of them. So my input to the rating chart gets counted, even though I don't watch half of the "Original" movies Sci-Fi makes in their entirety. Some of the "Original" movies were simply atrocious ("Centipede", a recent offering from a month ago sticks out). Despite such, however, some of the offerings by the Sci-Fi channel have been pretty good (mostly the mini-series).

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          #5
          True, the miniseries are some of the better programming on Scifi... but in reality they represent an extremely small proportion of their actual new primetime programming that it seems odd to judge the channel by them.

          In terms of new programming, you generally have the two Stargates balanced by "Scare Tactics", their latest ghost hunters incarnation, the dreadful and scientifically bankrupt "Proof Positive" (poor Amanda Tapping... I hope she doesn't know enough science to realize just what she is pimping), Tripping the Rift, and a B- Movie of the Weak. Even if you throw in an hour of miniseries a week (to average it out) we are talking a 2 to 1 garbage to watchable TV ratio.

          But as long as Scifi is the only science fiction channel on the dial, I suspect that we can expect more of the same. Which is why I keep hoping Viacom will finally take the plunge and get a pony in this race.

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