SFWire posted the ratings

[Lyta]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SavantB5:
Did JMS post a full list of the West Coast market ratings and did I miss it? What did he say it got in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the two biggest markets? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I shouldn't really poke my nose into this since I don't really understand why you are all debating the ratings ... too many numbers and east/west coast debates for my poor tired brain. However, I think this is what you were asking for ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> The east coast ratings got hammered by the football game, which was the highest rated such game in something like 5 years. The B5 male demos are pretty much the same as for sports, and we lost heavily to football. So there we did not do well.

By contrast, on the west coast, where the show aired *after* the game had finished, we not only met but *exceeded* SFC's expectations, getting a 3.2 or 3.6 in many markets, which is actually pretty unheard of for a basic cable network. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The entire post from JMS can be found on JMSNews. It is the only thing that JMS has said about the ratings as far as I am aware of.

Hope that helps?

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

I don't know why he's saying it's "unheard of". Doesn't he remember that "In The Beginning" did a 4.0 in the TNT coverage area?

What he says isn't much to go on from a market-by-market basis or to guess what the average is. LA and SF are the two markets that matter the most because they are the biggest. All the other markets could get a 3.2, but if LA and SF got lower numbers, it would drag the weighted average down.

(To average markets across the board you have to weight the numbers by the market's size. The larger markets are the most important, which is why SciFi focused on them in their promotional campaigns)

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