You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality. Steve Podcast, I’m your host reality. Steve, thank you all for tuning in. On this Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. It’s gonna be another short show for you today just ’cause not a lot happened yesterday, it did in the sports world. So I was able to talk a little bit about that on my sports daily coming up in an hour.
But not a whole hell of a lot happened in reality TV, entertainment world. So there are a couple things though that I want to go over, but probably another 10 to 12 minute podcast. Just wanna prepare you guys for that. And it’s gonna be talking about Dancing With the Stars and kind of dive into a couple of things that I mentioned yesterday.
And then I do want to dive into a little bit more about the Whitney and Mark Freestyle on the Call Her Daddy podcast and we will get to all that momentarily. So what’s funny is, remember how I said yesterday, Hey 10 minute show. Minus the commercials 10 minute show because it’s Thanksgiving day. I don’t expect a lot of you to be listening on Thanksgiving Day.
You got other important things to do. Yesterday was my most listened to episode of the week. Not of ever obviously, but I’m saying of the week, which is. I was kind of, I was kinda scratching my head at that because I’m like, how, why? But maybe it’s because none of you had to get up and go to work and you saw I only talked for 10 minutes.
I don’t know. I wasn’t expecting that. Like it almost doubled Monday show. It was like almost double of Monday’s show. So Monday was the lowest of the week. Then it went up a little bit on Tuesday and a little bit on Wednesday. And then yesterday was easily the highest of the week. It was almost like a normal show that I release on any other weekday.
I don’t know. I found that really weird. I did not, I did not expect that at all. ’cause it’s not like I had a lot of, I didn’t have any sort of exclusive in yesterday’s podcast. So. I don’t know. I, I, I can’t explain it. But thank you all for tuning in on Thanksgiving Day. So there’s two things that I wanted to get into.
Mentioned them yesterday, but I wanted to go into him a little bit deeper today. And that is the Dance with the Stars rating explanation that I had from yesterday, and I’m not sure people are understanding what we witnessed on Tuesday. In terms of their audience that tuned in, because I didn’t explain it, I just read you the numbers.
The biggest thing to take from Tuesday’s Dancing with the Stars finale is this, in the adults 18 to 49 demographic, they got a 53% share basically. 53% audience share in the demo. So for those that don’t understand how shares work, let me explain it. So in all of the United States, in all of television, obviously this is, for the most part, it’s a rough estimate because they can’t know specifically down to the exact number.
That’s impossible. But in the 18 to 49 demo on Tuesday night, every television set that was turned on. By people in the 18 to 49 demo. 53% of them had it on Dancing With the Stars finale. That is the largest percentage share of a TV show since the friends finale in 2004. This is a dancing show that’s been on for 34 seasons.
Like, do you understand how ridiculous that is? And the thing is, I can’t explain it. I don’t know why it was so big this year because they did cast like they usually do an Olympian, an older person that people as the underdog story. That’s Andy, the Olympian Jordan. I, yeah. They went to the mom talk and they went to Secret Lives of Mormon wives.
And I understand that’s a. Insanely popular show on Hulu, but it’s still, I don’t wanna call it a niche audience, but I can’t, I can’t wrap my head around the fact that 53% of the televisions that were turned on on Tuesday night in all of the United States of people that were in the 18 to 49 demo were tuned into Dancing with the Stars.
That is insane to me because we kind of all knew who was gonna win. I don’t think it was a big deal. Oh my God, I gotta see if Alex or Robert win. I mean, I think we kind of knew Robert was gonna win this thing. I said it after week one. This guy’s winning. He’s just too likable and that’s a good thing. I wasn’t mad that he’s likable.
I said he’s like the, literally the nicest human on the planet. He should be rewarded. Guys like him in the entertainment world are few and far between, but that ratings number is, I dunno if I’m ever going to wrap my head around that, because these are numbers we saw in the early two thousands, in the late nineties when it was just Fox A, B, C, C, B, s, and NB.
C. There wasn’t streaming services, so everybody was watching network television and the best show of the week was getting 30 to 35 million viewers. American Idol was winning every week, getting 35 million viewers. Their finale would pull in 40 to 45. The best show on tv, well, I shouldn’t say the best because that’s subjective.
The most watched show on TV weekly now is Tracker CBS. Sunday Nights. It draws like 11 million viewers.
Everything else that’s higher than that is, is sporting events, but I’m talking about scripted television shows on network tv. Yeah. 10, 11, 12 million is the most you’re ever gonna get on a, on a weekly episodic television show. Back in the day, those weekly episodic television shows we’re drawing 20, 25, 30, 30 5 million.
But it makes sense. Obviously you have way more options now. But that’s why Dancing with the Stars, drawing a 53% share in the 18 to 49 demo on Tuesday is ridiculous.
