Hello Jimv_atlanta,
Below you will find the Nielsen Ratings for the top 20 TV shows from
1990 to 1995. These ratings will reveal all the Sitcoms that beat
Seinfeld during the first four seasons.
Home Improvement was the Sitcom that beat Seinfeld in the same
timeslot in the 1992-1993 season. Home Improvement also beat Seinfeld
in 1993-1994 but they did not share the same timeslot.
1990-1991
(1)Cheers ? NBC
(2)60 Minutes ? CBS
(3)Roseanne ? ABC
(4)A Different World ? NBC
(5)The Cosby Show ? NBC
(6)Murphy Brown ? CBS
(7)(tie) Empty Nest ? NBC
(7)(tie) America?s Funniest Home Videos ? ABC
(9)NFL Monday Night Football ? ABC
(10)The Golden Girls ? NBC
(11)Designing Women ? CBS
(12)Murder, She Wrote ? CBS
(13)America?s Funniest People ? ABC
(14)Full House ? ABC
(15)Family Matters ? ABC
(16)Unsolved Mysteries ? NBC
(17)Matlock ? NBC
(18)Coach ? ABC
(19)(tie) Who?s the Boss ? ABC
(19)(tie) CBS Sunday Movie ? CBS
1991-1992
(1)60 Minutes ? CBS
(2)Roseanne ? ABC
(3)Murphy Brown ? CBS
(4)Cheers ? NBC
(5)Home Improvement ? ABC
(6)Designing Women ? CBS
(7)Coach ? ABC
(8)Full House ? ABC
(9)Unsolved Mysteries ? NBC
(10)Murder, She Wrote ? CBS
(11)Major Dad ? CBS
(12)NFL Monday Night Football ? ABC
(13)Evening Shade ? CBS
(14)Northern Exposure ? CBS
(15)A Different World ? NBC
(16)The Cosby Show ? NBC
(17)Wings ? NBC
(18)The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ? NBC
(19)America?s Funniest Home Videos ? ABC
(20)20/20 ? ABC
1992-1993
(1)60 Minutes ? CBS
(2)Roseanne ? ABC
(3)Home Improvement ? ABC
(4)Murphy Brown ? CBS
(5)Murder, She Wrote ? CBS
(6)Coach ? ABC
(7)NFL Monday Night Football ? ABC
(8)Cheers ? NBC
(9)Full House ? ABC
(10)Northern Exposure ? CBS
(11)20/20 ? ABC
(12)Rescue 911 ? CBS
(13)Love and War ? CBS
(14)(tie) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ? NBC
(14)(tie) Hangin? with Mr. Cooper ? ABC
(14)(tie) The Jackie Thomas Show ? ABC
(17)Evening Shade ? CBS
(18)Unsolved Mysteries ? NBC
(19)Hearts Afire ? CBS
(20)PrimeTime Live ? ABC
1993-1994
(1)Home Improvement ? ABC
(2)60 Minutes ? CBS
(3)Seinfeld ? NBC
(4)Roseanne ? ABC
(5)These Friends of Mine ? ABC
(6)Grace Under Fire ? ABC
(7)Frasier ? NBC
(8)Coach ? NBC
(9)Murder, She Wrote ? CBS
(10)NFL Monday Night Football ? ABC
(11)Murphy Brown ? CBS
(12)Thunder Alley ? ABC
(13)20/20 ? ABC
(14)Love and War ? CBS
(15)Wings ? NBC
(16)(tie) Full House ? ABC
(16)(tie) Northern Exposure ? CBS
(16)(tie) PrimeTime Live ? ABC
(19)(tie) Dave?s World ? CBS
(19)(tie) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ? CBS
(19)(tie) NYPD Blue ? ABC
(19)(tie) Rescue 911 ? CBS
1994-1995
(1)Seinfeld ? NBC
(2)ER ? NBC
(3)Home Improvement ? ABC
(4)Grace Under Fire ? ABC
(5)NFL Monday Night Football ? ABC
(6)60 Minutes ? CBS
(7)NYPD Blue ? ABC
(8)Friends ? NBC
(9)(tie) Roseanne ? ABC
(9)(tie) Murder, She Wrote ? CBS
(11)Mad About You ? NBC
(12)Madman of the People ? NBC
(13)Ellen ? ABC
(14)Hope & Gloria ? NBC
(15)Frasier ? NBC
(16)Murphy Brown ? CBS
(17)20/20 ? ABC
(18)CBS Sunday Movie ? CBS
(19)NBC Monday Movie ? NBC
(20)Dave?s World ? CBS
http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/televisioncity/9095.html
Timeslot Competition
Prime Time Schedule for 1991-1992
Wednesdays at 9:30 P.M.
ABC Sibs
CBS Jake and The Fatman
NBC Seinfeld
http://www.inthe90s.com/prim9192.shtml
Prime Time Schedule for 1992-1993
Wednesdays at 9:00 P.M.
ABC Home Improvement
CBS In The Heat Of The Night
NBC Seinfeld
http://www.inthe90s.com/prim9293.shtml
Prime Time Schedule for 1993-1994
Thursdays at 9:00 PM
ABC Matlock
CBS Eye To Eye With Connie Chung
FOX In Living Color
NBC Seinfeld
http://www.inthe90s.com/prim9394.shtml
"When (Seinfeld) it finally made it to NBC's regular schedule in
January 1991, "Seinfeld" aired on Wednesdays, not reaching Must See TV
Thursday or the Nielsen Top 10 until mid-season 1993."
MSNBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5675193/
?Seinfeld would inherit Cheers' timeslot of 9PM on Thursdays beginning
with Season Five (1993-94). The show would jump from #25 to #3 in the
Nielsen ratings with a 19.4 rating. It would remain #1 or #2 for the
next four consecutive seasons.?
Sitcomsonline.com
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/seinfeldseason5dvdreview.html
Seinfeld began on July 5, 1989, as ''The Seinfeld Chronicles.''
?The next summer, the show aired six more times, and was scheduled to
begin as a regular series in January of 1991, but was bumped off the
air by the start of the Persian Gulf war. It finally got a regular
time slot on Wednesday nights in the 1991-92 season and for the first
half of the 1992-93 season, when it became a cult favorite.
In February 1993, when NBC was facing the loss of ''Cheers,'' it moved
''Seinfeld'' to 9:30 P.M. on Thursdays, after ''Cheers,'' and it
became a runaway hit. The next season, it moved to 9 P.M. and has
dominated that slot ever since.?
NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/seinfeld/sein1226a.html
Home Improvement beat Seinfeld.
?The second year, when it went up against tougher competition
("Melrose Place" and "Seinfeld"), "Home Improvement" fared even
better, finishing at #3, and its third season the show was the
top-ranked comedy (#2, following "60 Minutes," and ahead of #3
"Seinfeld"). In fact, "Home Improvement" showed its long-term
popularity by finishing in the top-10 every year of its eight-season
run.?
DVD Town
http://www.dvdtown.com/review/homeimprovementseasontwo/16240/2932/
Home Improvement?s domination of Wednesday nights forced "Seinfeld" to
move to Thursday where it would become more successful.
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/homeimprovement-season1.html
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1990..1995
I hope the information provided is helpful!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
