Ratings slowly climbed to the point where World News Tonight eventually beat both NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News, marking the first time ever that ABC had the most-popular network evening newscast.

Ratings improved with a radical overhaul, but it was eventually cancelled by the new controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob.

Ratings remained low, and eventually CIDR tweaked its format in a hot adult contemporary direction by 2001, when WMGC entered the Detroit AC competition.

Ratings improved but WKEF remained a distant third in the ratings.

Ratings were low initially but gradually improved.

Ratings improved in the next five years leading Larus to try to seek the NBC affiliation, a switch which occurred in 1965.

Ratings for the station improved initially after the switch, but began to decline before Howard Stern's departure for Sirius Satellite Radio.

Like the first generation, the 2008 edition of the Used Car Safety Ratings ( UCSR ) by Monash University in Australia found the second series Festiva to provide a " worse than average " ( two out of five stars ) safety protection level in the event of an accident.

Like the previous generation, the second generation Barina provides a " worse than average " level of safety according to the 2008 Used Car Safety Ratings.

Viewers also responded to Huggins ' changes, and the show's second season ended in 38th place in the Nielsen Ratings.

At the conclusion of the November 2009 Nielsen Ratings sweeps period, WBBM-TV's 10 p. m. newscast overtook WMAQ-TV for second place, largely due to the low ratings of the latter station's lead-in ( The Jay Leno Show ).

Ratings continued to decline and by the end of 1990, Today, the longtime dominant morning news / talk program, was in second place behind GMA.

Ratings, however, were unstable at best, and Globo TV was facing fierce competition from a reality show produced by the second largest network in the country and its principal competitor, SBT.

Ratings for its replacement, Anderson, have been very poor, to the point where despite being placed in an earlier time slot, it has caused harm to both the show immediately after it ( The Dr. Oz Show ) and the evening newscasts, which are currently firmly in second place, halfway between new market leader WGRZ ( which has The Ellen DeGeneres Show as a lead-in to its evening newscast ) and third-place WKBW ( which has The Doctors as its lead-in ).

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Ratings, however, continued to drop and were further exacerbated by the timeslot switch as now the series was facing off against the strong NBC Thursday night line-up, which had regularly drawn the lion's share of the audience that night ( led by The Cosby Show, which had supplanted Dynasty as the # 1 show on television in 1986 and had continued to hold that lead ).

Ratings had been in decline for some time, falling to even lower levels during 1986, resulting in Network Ten deciding in July 1986 to not renew the series for another year.

The Used Car Safety Ratings evaluation from 2008 found that LD series Astras provide a " worse than average " level of occupant protection in the event of an accident.

Like the previous generation, the AH series was found to provides a " better than average " level of safety according to the 2008 Used Car Safety Ratings.

Ratings for the series fell to below 3. 5 million, and the series was subsequently axed in March 2007.

Ratings, unfortunately, were still low during the first year Daly and Gless starred on the series together.

Ratings for the series were often high by the standards of the time, the programme benefitted from following the variety based Sunday Night at the London Palladium, but not always.

Ratings hit an all-time low in 2004, and BBC bosses axed the show, but promised that they would bring back many of the cast from earlier series for a fantastic series finale.

Ratings success by these movies led to the commissioning of a weekly series for the 1977 – 1978 season.

In overnight Nielsen Ratings, the series premiere of Conan drew 4, 100, 000 viewers, leading all late-night talk shows, more than tripling the audience of its direct competition, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central.

Ratings suffered in the third season when ABC moved the series to Monday night opposite Gunsmoke and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

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The special two-part episode briefly launched the ratings-challenged series into the top 10 of the Nielsen Ratings.

Ratings picked up during the first season, and the show has been met with such media attention that it has formed a large loyal fanbase.

Ratings for the show were inconsistent.

Ratings for the show peaked during the 1996 – 1997 season, with 4. 4 average rating.

Ratings for The Colbys were poor and the show lasted for just two seasons, ending in 1987.

The Dallas-Falcon Crest one-two punch proved lucrative for the network and Falcon Crest was a Top 20 show in the Nielsen Ratings for several years.

Ratings fell sharply in the first few weeks, and the show was put on hiatus by November, showing only one new episode until the following April.

In 1997, Prevue Channel became the first electronic program guide to show Canada's and the United States ' formalized TV Ratings symbols.

Regular segments featured on the show included Brak's School Daze, Zorak's Horror Scopes, Poets ' Corner, Brak's Monday Ratings Report, The Top 5 Cartoon Countdown ( discontinued in 1997 after the show's slot on Saturday mornings was shortened from an hour to a half hour ), Vacation Spots Around the Universe ( pieced together from clips of Ultra 7 episodes ), Messages from Outer Space ( also pieced together from the aforementioned Ultra 7, and starring the nefarious Hot Dog Men ), Mailbag Day, readings from the Cartoon Planet Storybook, messages from Count Floyd ( Joe Flaherty's local Public-access television cable TV horror movie host from SCTV ; the segments were originally shown on Hanna-Barbera's The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley ), Learning to Talk Italian, Nuggets of Joy from Zorak, Zorak's Helpful Hints, and Cooking with Brak.

Ratings were still moderate for Heat, although the show lost some popularity once SmackDown!

In March 2005, following the launch of a rival show on TV3, Campbell Live, Nielsen Media Ratings listed Holmes ' show at 4 percent.

" Ratings in the coveted 18 – 49 demographic were high enough, and the show was near the threshold for number of episodes needed for syndication, so a limited fourth season of 13 episodes was ordered.

Ratings fell when Myers stepped down from presenting the breakfast show, and his replacement, Steve Coleman, was sacked after just three weeks.

Ratings went up slightly, and at one point the show even moved ahead of Good Morning America in 1998.

During the 2008 season, the Green Gully Show averaged ( viewers per 30 minute show ) an audience of 8, 000 viewers peaking 12, 500 viewers ( viewers for at least 1 minute per 30 minute show ) according to the official OzTam Television Ratings snapshot recorded in May 2008.