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CNBC’s new reality series get mixed ratings

Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood reports that the new reality shows from CNBC reported mixed viewing data during the first week.

Patten writes, “Debuting at 9 PM, the antiquities authenticating Treasure Detectives pulled in 279,000 total viewers and 62,000 in the Adults 25-54 demographic on the channel. That’s a jump from the 195,000 total viewers and 49,000 in the demo that watched the 60 Minutes repeat that sat in the slot last week.

“However, Car Chasers did not fare as well. The series, which follows classic car dealers Jeff Allen and Perry Barndt as buying and selling exotic vehicles around the country, fell double digits from the encore episode of American Greed that aired at 10 PM on February 26. Earning 210,000 total viewers and 64,000 among the 25-54, Car Chasers was down 25% in audience and 22% in the demo from what the true crime series got the week before. Even with a repeat last week, it was a hard slot to fill on a network primarily previously focused on its daytime programming.

“Since debuting in 2007, American Greed has been CNBC’s second most popular show overall in terms of viewership and number one in terms of the demo. The show’s seventh season debuted on February 21. Earlier this year at the TCA, network president and CEO Mark Hoffman described Treasure Detectives and The Car Chasers as meeting participants at ‘the intersection of fear and greed’ in the new entertainment focus of CNBC in primetime.

“The two new shows are the first of several evening reality shows that CNBC plans to roll out in the coming weeks to beef up its primetime slots.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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