“Family Feud” Scores as Summer Starts

Family Feud (5.0 live plus same day national Nielsen rating, up 2% from the week before) was the game show champion in the first week of summer, the session ending June 26. That edged usual leader Jeopardy (4.9, down 2%).

Meanwhile, programs airing on network affiliates in daytime were faced with an extremely challenging week as most were very heavily preempted by January 6^th Committee hearings on June 21^st and 23^rd and extensive news reports on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade on the 24^th.

For example, the only daytime strip above a 1.0 rating able to break in to positive territory was courtroom star Hot Bench (1.3, up 8%), which tied mega-hit Dr. Phil.

Talk shows were topped by mostly repackaged episodes of Live with Kelly and Ryan (new season low 1.4, down 7%). Second place Dr. Phil (new season low 1.3, down 13%) was also in repeats.

Further down the list, both the out of production Ellen DeGeneres (new season low 0.6, down 25%) and Wendy Williams (new season low 0.5, down 17%) slipped into sixth and eighth places, respectively.