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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Survivor TV Ratings Down

Racially Divided Survivor Slips from Past Debuts
(Reuters Fri. Sep 15, 2006)

TV Set(Los Angeles) The controversial new format of the CBS reality show Survivor -- dividing teams of contestants by race -- proved the series' least-watched debut episode since its first season, Nielsen Media Research reported on Friday.

Thursday's launch of Survivor: Cook Islands, featuring four racially based "tribes" of whites, blacks, Asian-Americans and Latinos, averaged 18 million viewers, easily ranking as the night's biggest broadcast in U.S. prime time.

But it also was the least-watched Survivor season opener -- and the lowest-rated in terms of advertisers' favorite audience, viewers aged 18 to 49 -- since the very first installment in the summer of 2000 (15.5 million).
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