Sunday’s broadcast of the 2009 Golden Globe Awards, which featured wins by the TV show “30 Rock,” the film “Slumdog Millionaire,” actor Mickey Rourke, and actress Kate Winslet, drew nearly 14.9 million U.S. viewers.
By comparison, the 2004 Golden Globes drew the largest U.S. television audience (26.8 million viewers) of any Golden Globes telecast in the past 10 years.
Last year’s Golden Globe Awards – aired as a one-hour press conference, due to an ongoing “writers’ strike” – drew just over 6 million viewers.
View Golden Globes TV ratings from 1998 to 2008, below.

According to data from Nielsen IAG, a CoverGirl tie-in with the CW’s “America’s Next Top Model” was the most recalled new “hybrid” ad during the four weeks between October 27 and November 23, 2008.
Hybrid Ads include customized ads, branded promos, vignettes, interstitials, and micro-series where sponsor messaging is combined with program or entertainment content.
Recall refers to the percentage of television viewers who can recall, within 24 hours, a hybrid ad’s sponsor.

CBS’s “CSI” and “Survivor: Gabon” were the number one- and number three-ranked primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Thursday, November 6, 2008.
ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” was sandwiched in between the two, in second place.

Rank
Program
Network
Viewers (P2+)

1
CSI
CBS
18,175,000

2
GREY’S ANATOMY-THU 9PM
ABC
15,740,000

3
SURVIVOR: GABON
CBS
12,013,000

4
ELEVENTH HOUR
CBS
10,902,000

5
UGLY BETTY
ABC
8,917,000

6
LIFE ON MARS
ABC
8,711,000

7
E.R.
NBC
8,608,000

8
OFFICE
NBC
8,545,000

9
30 ROCK
NBC
8,069,000

10
MY NAME IS EARL
NBC
6,700,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (November 6, 2008).

Overall, CBS won the night with an average audience of just over 13.7 million viewers, while ABC took second place with almost 11.2 million average viewers. NBC and Univision claimed third and fourth places with roughly 7.7 million and 4.6 …

CBS’s “CSI” and “Survivor: Gabon” were the number one- and number three-ranked primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Thursday, October 30, 2008.
ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” was sandwiched in between the two, in second place.
The season premiere of NBC’s “30 Rock” also made the top 10.

Rank
Program
Network
Viewers (P2+)

1
CSI
CBS
19,098,000

2
GREY’S ANATOMY-THU 9PM
ABC
15,319,000

3
SURVIVOR: GABON
CBS
13,015,000

4
ELEVENTH HOUR
CBS
11,248,000

5
OFFICE
NBC
9,514,000

6
E.R.
NBC
9,192,000

7
30 ROCK
NBC
8,663,000

8
UGLY BETTY
ABC
8,550,000

9
LIFE ON MARS
ABC
8,139,000

10
MY NAME IS EARL
NBC
6,269,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (October 30, 2008).

Overall, CBS won the night with an average audience of almost 14.5 million viewers, while ABC took second place with just over 10.7 million average viewers. NBC and Univision …