Ratings Review: NY MED

The week before NY MED season finale, an ABC press release was describing the event as a SERIES finale. Judging by the ratings for the summer, that was a fair and justified label.

With exception tow the two weeks going against the Olympics, NY MED averaged around 4.5 million viewers and a 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic. Not good numbers at all, but with the lack of success for ABC this summer, it was no worse than everything else they are airing.

It will be interesting to see what direction ABC takes next summer. Not a single one of their original summer programs did any good in the ratings. Once the NBA Finales were done, so were viewers done with ABC. Perhaps ABC can talk the NBA to shifting their seasona dn have the NBA Playoffs start in June, end in August. 

Tuesdays, 10:00pm (ABC)

Date       Viewers(M)    A18-49
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07.10.12      5.47        1.2 (Series Premiere)
07.17.12      4.82        1.2
07.24.12      4.39        1.1
07.31.12      2.80        0.6
08.07.12      2.85        0.7
08.14.12      4.27        1.0
08.21.12      4.13        1.0
08.22.12      4.45        1.0 (Finale)