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Affluent Viewing Audiences

areaarea Registered User regular
edited January 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
I have heard, at various times in the past, that both The West Wing and Boston Legal laid claim to being the TV shows with the richest (American) viewing audience. Is there anywhere that lists this statistic? I ask partly out of curiosity, and partly because those two shows are two of my favourite - and I suspect that I would enjoy anything else that has held that mantle.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'm guessing Mad Men attracts the same audience. I've heard that thrown around before, but I'm not sure where you could find that statistics. Nielsen should be a good start, but I don't remember what stuff they give out to the public.

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  • SlickShughesSlickShughes Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I would guess that anything on HBO/Showtime/etc would be the most likely to hold such a title, just based on having to actually pay to watch them. Have you tried "The Wire"?

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  • InvisibleInvisible Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Malkor wrote: »
    I'm guessing Mad Men attracts the same audience. I've heard that thrown around before, but I'm not sure where you could find that statistics. Nielsen should be a good start, but I don't remember what stuff they give out to the public.

    This is true. It's very hard to get those statistics without paying a lot of money, though since it's older you may be able to find them. If you're in college or know someone who is many universities have access to them.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    You can't really get current crosstabs of rating surveys without paying nielsen (or whoever.) That's how they make their money.

    You might be able to find old demographic data floating around online, and you can certainly find anecdotal cites, ex: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/for-advertising-purposes-greys-11849.aspx

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