The 2013-14 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. Like the Weekly True Power Rankings, it'll be free of any pesky analysis (aside from definitions of the numbers) and will get updated alongside the SpotVault in the middle of each week. These may or may not get expanded/tweaked over the course of the season; for now, I just want to get some of my immediate ideas out there. Suggestions welcome!

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 2013-14 regular season: Wednesday, May 21.

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

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Big four categories season-to-date:

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Week	Ending	Originals	Repeats	Sports	Specials	Movies
1	9/29/2013	100	35	152	n/a	n/a
2	10/6/2013	100	38	141	50	n/a
3	10/13/2013	100	37	155	53	n/a
4	10/20/2013	100	38	159	83	n/a
5	10/27/2013	100	39	165	84	n/a
6	11/3/2013	100	42	169	76	n/a
7	11/10/2013	100	42	170	107	n/a
8	11/17/2013	100	42	176	97	n/a
9	11/24/2013	100	43	181	114	n/a
10	12/1/2013	100	45	182	92	53
11	12/8/2013	100	46	183	100	54
12	12/15/2013	100	46	185	93	54
13	12/22/2013	100	46	188	88	59
14	12/29/2013	100	45	194	81	57
15	1/5/2014	100	44	205	82	55
16	1/12/2014	100	45	212	90	56
17	1/19/2014	100	45	225	91	54
18	1/26/2014	100	46	224	102	53
19	2/2/2014	100	46	257	99	50
20	2/9/2014	100	45	260	106	49
21	2/16/2014	100	45	263	105	48
22	2/23/2014	100	46	259	105	48
23	3/2/2014	100	45	256	116	48
24	3/9/2014	100	45	256	117	48
25	3/16/2014	100	45	257	116	48
26	3/23/2014	100	45	252	115	49
27	3/30/2014	100	45	250	115	49
28	4/6/2014	100	46	251	116	49
29	4/13/2014	100	46	252	117	49
30	4/20/2014	100	46	252	117	50
31	4/27/2014	100	47	252	117	50
32	5/4/2014	100	47	253	116	50
33	5/11/2014	100	47	250	115	50
34	5/18/2014	100	47	250	114	49
35	5/21/2014	100	47	250	113	49
2012-13 Final		100	49	227	100	47

Real estate:

Week	Ending	Originals	Repeats	Sports	Specials	Movies
1	9/29/2013	77%	11%	12%	0%	0%
2	10/6/2013	76%	10%	13%	1%	0%
3	10/13/2013	76%	10%	14%	0%	0%
4	10/20/2013	74%	10%	15%	0%	0%
5	10/27/2013	73%	11%	16%	0%	0%
6	11/3/2013	71%	12%	16%	1%	0%
7	11/10/2013	71%	11%	16%	2%	0%
8	11/17/2013	73%	10%	16%	2%	0%
9	11/24/2013	73%	10%	15%	3%	0%
10	12/1/2013	70%	10%	15%	4%	0%
11	12/8/2013	69%	10%	15%	5%	0%
12	12/15/2013	69%	10%	14%	6%	0%
13	12/22/2013	67%	12%	14%	7%	1%
14	12/29/2013	62%	15%	13%	8%	2%
15	1/5/2014	60%	17%	13%	8%	2%
16	1/12/2014	60%	17%	13%	8%	2%
17	1/19/2014	61%	18%	12%	8%	2%
18	1/26/2014	61%	18%	12%	7%	2%
19	2/2/2014	60%	19%	11%	8%	2%
20	2/9/2014	59%	19%	11%	8%	2%
21	2/16/2014	58%	20%	12%	8%	3%
22	2/23/2014	56%	21%	13%	8%	3%
23	3/2/2014	57%	21%	12%	7%	3%
24	3/9/2014	58%	21%	12%	7%	3%
25	3/16/2014	59%	21%	11%	7%	2%
26	3/23/2014	59%	20%	11%	7%	2%
27	3/30/2014	59%	21%	11%	7%	2%
28	4/6/2014	60%	20%	11%	7%	2%
29	4/13/2014	61%	20%	11%	6%	2%
30	4/20/2014	61%	21%	10%	6%	2%
31	4/27/2014	61%	21%	10%	6%	2%
32	5/4/2014	61%	20%	10%	6%	2%
33	5/11/2014	62%	20%	10%	6%	2%
34	5/18/2014	62%	20%	9%	6%	2%
35	5/21/2014	62%	20%	9%	6%	2%
2012-13 Final		64%	21%	8%	5%	2%

Big four original categories season-to-date:

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Week	Ending	Dramas	Sitcoms	Reality	News
1	9/29/2013	96	108	117	50
2	10/6/2013	95	103	119	64
3	10/13/2013	96	102	120	61
4	10/20/2013	96	102	122	63
5	10/27/2013	95	103	123	63
6	11/3/2013	95	102	122	67
7	11/10/2013	95	102	121	68
8	11/17/2013	95	102	121	68
9	11/24/2013	96	101	121	68
10	12/1/2013	96	101	120	70
11	12/8/2013	96	101	119	69
12	12/15/2013	96	102	118	70
13	12/22/2013	96	102	116	70
14	12/29/2013	96	102	115	70
15	1/5/2014	96	104	115	70
16	1/12/2014	96	104	115	72
17	1/19/2014	96	103	116	72
18	1/26/2014	96	102	116	73
19	2/2/2014	95	104	116	72
20	2/9/2014	95	104	116	72
21	2/16/2014	95	103	116	72
22	2/23/2014	95	103	116	72
23	3/2/2014	94	103	116	72
24	3/9/2014	94	103	117	71
25	3/16/2014	94	102	118	71
26	3/23/2014	94	102	119	71
27	3/30/2014	94	102	120	71
28	4/6/2014	93	102	120	71
29	4/13/2014	94	102	120	71
30	4/20/2014	94	102	119	71
31	4/27/2014	94	102	119	71
32	5/4/2014	94	102	119	71
33	5/11/2014	94	102	119	71
34	5/18/2014	94	102	118	71
35	5/21/2014	94	102	118	71
2012-13 Final		94	103	120	65

Real estate:

Week	Ending	Dramas	Sitcoms	Reality	News
1	9/29/2013	47%	23%	23%	8%
2	10/6/2013	47%	23%	23%	7%
3	10/13/2013	47%	22%	23%	8%
4	10/20/2013	48%	21%	22%	9%
5	10/27/2013	49%	21%	22%	9%
6	11/3/2013	48%	20%	23%	9%
7	11/10/2013	48%	20%	23%	9%
8	11/17/2013	48%	20%	23%	9%
9	11/24/2013	47%	21%	23%	9%
10	12/1/2013	47%	20%	23%	9%
11	12/8/2013	46%	21%	24%	9%
12	12/15/2013	46%	21%	25%	9%
13	12/22/2013	45%	20%	26%	9%
14	12/29/2013	44%	20%	26%	9%
15	1/5/2014	44%	20%	26%	10%
16	1/12/2014	45%	20%	25%	10%
17	1/19/2014	45%	20%	25%	9%
18	1/26/2014	44%	21%	26%	9%
19	2/2/2014	44%	21%	26%	9%
20	2/9/2014	44%	21%	26%	9%
21	2/16/2014	44%	21%	26%	9%
22	2/23/2014	43%	21%	27%	9%
23	3/2/2014	44%	21%	27%	9%
24	3/9/2014	44%	21%	26%	9%
25	3/16/2014	44%	21%	26%	9%
26	3/23/2014	44%	20%	26%	9%
27	3/30/2014	44%	20%	26%	9%
28	4/6/2014	45%	20%	26%	9%
29	4/13/2014	45%	20%	26%	9%
30	4/20/2014	44%	20%	26%	9%
31	4/27/2014	44%	20%	26%	9%
32	5/4/2014	44%	20%	26%	9%
33	5/11/2014	44%	20%	26%	9%
34	5/18/2014	44%	20%	27%	9%
35	5/21/2014	44%	20%	27%	9%
2012-13 Final		40%	19%	29%	11%

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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).