The 2014-15 Climate Center: Genres

The Climate Center is the latest way to keep up with some of this site's bigger-picture numbers on a week-to-week basis. It'll provide a running track of trends across the broadcasters, including individual networks, genres, and days of week/time of day. These will include the numbers that have gone into the A18-49+ theme posts, plus some new ones.

The "Genres" post breaks apart all primetime programming to look at trends by category, then breaks apart only the original non-sports series realm to look at trends for dramas, sitcoms and reality.

These numbers are up to date through the end of the regular season: Wednesday, May 20.

More Climate Center: Basics | Networks | Genres | Days/Times

Last season's Genres.

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Big four categories season-to-date:

A18-49+:

Week	Ending	Originals	Repeats	Sports	Specials	Movies
1	9/28/2014	100	35	190	n/a	n/a
2	10/5/2014	100	38	194	n/a	n/a
3	10/12/2014	100	40	200	n/a	n/a
4	10/19/2014	100	38	222	103	n/a
5	10/26/2014	100	37	215	68	n/a
6	11/2/2014	100	37	208	75	n/a
7	11/9/2014	100	38	206	109	n/a
8	11/16/2014	100	38	207	92	n/a
9	11/23/2014	100	39	207	112	n/a
10	11/30/2014	100	40	214	87	n/a
11	12/7/2014	100	43	213	90	38
12	12/14/2014	100	44	219	86	34
13	12/21/2014	100	45	222	77	49
14	12/28/2014	100	43	224	71	59
15	1/4/2015	100	43	233	74	56
16	1/11/2015	100	42	239	81	56
17	1/18/2015	100	43	251	82	55
18	1/25/2015	100	44	247	83	54
19	2/1/2015	100	44	283	82	54
20	2/8/2015	100	44	284	93	54
21	2/15/2015	100	45	283	102	53
22	2/22/2015	100	45	283	112	50
23	3/1/2015	100	45	278	110	50
24	3/8/2015	100	45	275	110	50
25	3/15/2015	100	45	274	110	50
26	3/22/2015	100	45	266	110	49
27	3/29/2015	100	45	261	110	49
28	4/5/2015	100	46	262	111	52
29	4/12/2015	100	46	262	111	52
30	4/19/2015	100	46	258	113	51
31	4/26/2015	100	46	256	117	51
32	5/3/2015	100	46	254	117	51
33	5/10/2015	100	46	253	117	50
34	5/17/2015	100	46	254	118	50
35	5/24/2015	100	47	254	118	50
2013-14 Final		100	47	250	113	49

Real estate:

Week	Ending	Originals	Repeats	Sports	Specials	Movies
1	9/28/2014	74%	10%	16%	0%	0%
2	10/5/2014	74%	11%	15%	0%	0%
3	10/12/2014	74%	11%	15%	0%	0%
4	10/19/2014	74%	11%	15%	0%	0%
5	10/26/2014	72%	10%	17%	0%	0%
6	11/2/2014	72%	10%	18%	1%	0%
7	11/9/2014	71%	10%	18%	2%	0%
8	11/16/2014	71%	9%	17%	2%	0%
9	11/23/2014	72%	10%	16%	2%	0%
10	11/30/2014	70%	11%	16%	4%	0%
11	12/7/2014	68%	11%	16%	5%	0%
12	12/14/2014	68%	11%	15%	6%	1%
13	12/21/2014	66%	12%	15%	7%	1%
14	12/28/2014	62%	15%	14%	8%	1%
15	1/4/2015	60%	17%	13%	8%	2%
16	1/11/2015	61%	17%	13%	8%	1%
17	1/18/2015	61%	17%	12%	8%	2%
18	1/25/2015	61%	17%	12%	8%	2%
19	2/1/2015	61%	18%	12%	7%	2%
20	2/8/2015	61%	18%	11%	7%	2%
21	2/15/2015	62%	18%	11%	7%	2%
22	2/22/2015	62%	18%	10%	8%	2%
23	3/1/2015	63%	18%	10%	7%	2%
24	3/8/2015	63%	18%	10%	7%	2%
25	3/15/2015	64%	18%	9%	7%	2%
26	3/22/2015	64%	18%	9%	6%	2%
27	3/29/2015	64%	18%	9%	6%	2%
28	4/5/2015	64%	19%	9%	6%	3%
29	4/12/2015	64%	18%	9%	6%	3%
30	4/19/2015	64%	19%	9%	6%	3%
31	4/26/2015	64%	19%	9%	6%	3%
32	5/3/2015	65%	18%	9%	6%	3%
33	5/10/2015	65%	18%	8%	6%	3%
34	5/17/2015	65%	18%	8%	6%	3%
35	5/24/2015	66%	18%	8%	6%	3%
2013-14 Final		62%	20%	9%	6%	2%

Big four original categories season-to-date:

A18-49+:

Week	Ending	Dramas	Sitcoms	Reality	News
1	9/28/2014	96	153	100	58
2	10/5/2014	98	118	107	63
3	10/12/2014	98	114	110	63
4	10/19/2014	98	112	113	62
5	10/26/2014	98	110	115	63
6	11/2/2014	97	109	114	68
7	11/9/2014	97	106	115	70
8	11/16/2014	97	106	117	70
9	11/23/2014	97	105	117	73
10	11/30/2014	96	103	118	75
11	12/7/2014	96	103	117	76
12	12/14/2014	96	104	116	77
13	12/21/2014	96	104	114	77
14	12/28/2014	96	104	114	78
15	1/4/2015	97	106	114	76
16	1/11/2015	96	105	114	77
17	1/18/2015	97	104	114	77
18	1/25/2015	97	104	114	77
19	2/1/2015	98	103	113	76
20	2/8/2015	97	104	113	76
21	2/15/2015	98	103	113	76
22	2/22/2015	97	104	113	75
23	3/1/2015	97	104	114	74
24	3/8/2015	97	105	115	73
25	3/15/2015	97	105	116	71
26	3/22/2015	97	104	117	71
27	3/29/2015	97	104	118	71
28	4/5/2015	97	105	118	70
29	4/12/2015	96	105	119	70
30	4/19/2015	96	105	119	70
31	4/26/2015	96	106	119	70
32	5/3/2015	96	106	120	70
33	5/10/2015	96	106	120	70
34	5/17/2015	96	107	120	70
35	5/24/2015	95	107	120	70
2013-14 Final		94	102	118	71

Real estate:

Week	Ending	Dramas	Sitcoms	Reality	News
1	9/28/2014	51%	10%	31%	8%
2	10/5/2014	53%	13%	26%	8%
3	10/12/2014	54%	13%	24%	9%
4	10/19/2014	54%	13%	23%	9%
5	10/26/2014	56%	13%	22%	9%
6	11/2/2014	56%	14%	21%	9%
7	11/9/2014	55%	15%	21%	9%
8	11/16/2014	55%	15%	21%	9%
9	11/23/2014	55%	15%	21%	9%
10	11/30/2014	55%	15%	21%	9%
11	12/7/2014	54%	16%	22%	9%
12	12/14/2014	53%	16%	22%	9%
13	12/21/2014	52%	16%	24%	9%
14	12/28/2014	51%	15%	24%	9%
15	1/4/2015	50%	15%	24%	10%
16	1/11/2015	50%	16%	24%	10%
17	1/18/2015	50%	16%	24%	10%
18	1/25/2015	50%	16%	24%	10%
19	2/1/2015	50%	16%	24%	10%
20	2/8/2015	50%	16%	24%	10%
21	2/15/2015	50%	16%	24%	10%
22	2/22/2015	51%	16%	24%	9%
23	3/1/2015	50%	16%	24%	9%
24	3/8/2015	50%	16%	24%	10%
25	3/15/2015	50%	16%	24%	10%
26	3/22/2015	50%	16%	24%	11%
27	3/29/2015	50%	16%	24%	11%
28	4/5/2015	50%	16%	23%	11%
29	4/12/2015	50%	15%	23%	11%
30	4/19/2015	50%	15%	23%	11%
31	4/26/2015	50%	15%	23%	11%
32	5/3/2015	50%	15%	23%	11%
33	5/10/2015	50%	15%	23%	11%
34	5/17/2015	50%	15%	23%	11%
35	5/24/2015	50%	15%	24%	11%
2013-14 Final		44%	20%	27%	9%

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Click to expand for more on the "climate" numbers used herein.

Big four categories season-to-date - These numbers 1) index the big four networks' averages in all for all forms of primetime programming compared to the averages for original non-sports series only; 2) examine how the primetime real estate is divvied up among these five categories. Also included are the numbers from both the corresponding week last season as well as the end of last season. Since holiday-time programming tends to throw these things off, both numbers are helpful as a gauge of where we might end up by season's end.

• I might change this shortly, but for now the so-called "sustaining" programming (special programming that doesn't run ads and isn't counted in final ratings) is not included in the real estate percentages. This is somewhat noteworthy because it makes the total real estate pie a bit smaller in the 2012-13 season (since there were a bunch of debates and election coverage). There might have been more originals at this time in 2012-13 since most of those sustaining slots would've been filled by originals.

Big four original categories season-to-date - These numbers 1) index the big four networks' averages in the categories within the realm of original non-sports series compared to the average for all original non-sports series; and 2) examine how much of each category makes up the full "Originals" category.

• "Drama" includes all one-hour scripted programs, including shows that may sometimes get labelled as comedies for awards purposes (like Glee, Desperate Housewives).

• The shows put under the "News" label are not all news-themed; it's really just a quick way of saying "low-priority unscripted." Many of these are news (60 Minutes, Dateline, 20/20), but a few are not (America's Funniest Home Videos and former staples like Cops and America's Most Wanted).