Hitwise, today that the NBC’s Deal or No Deal website was the most visited broadcast network television show website among a custom category of selected shows for the week ending September 29, 2007. More than 120 television show websites from the six leading broadcast networks1 were included in the custom category. Deal or No Deal received 15.46 percent of all U.S. visits during the week in which many networks premiered their shows for the new television season.
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The ABC show Dancing with the Stars website received the second largest percentage of U.S. visits. Following Dancing with the Stars was NBC’s Heroes website that received 9.71 percent of visits and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy website received 3.51 percent of visits.
The FOX show, America’s Most Wanted website rounded out the top five visited shows receiving 2.70 percent of visits for the week ending September 29, 2007.
The table is based on a weekly Hitwise Conversions report that ranks the selected broadcast network television show websites, whether they are a stand-alone site such as American Idol or a section within a larger website such as Deal or No Deal. The show websites are ranked by market share of U.S. visits among all the websites included.
Network Website Traffic
NBC.com received the largest market share of U.S. visits, 36.70 percent, among a custom category of the six broadcast networks for the week ending September 29, 2007. ABC.com received the second most visits for the week with 30.41 percent, followed by CBS.com with 19.08 percent.
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U.S.Broadcast Network Websites During Season Premiere Week
| Network | Website | Week Ending 9/29/2007 | Week Ending 9/23/2006 |
| NBC | http://www.nbc.com/ | 36.70% | 48.10% |
| ABC | http://www.abc.com/ | 30.41% | 23.40% |
| ign="bottom" width="91">CBS | http://www.cbs.com/ | 19.08% | 17.13% |
| FOX* | http://www.fox.com/ | 7.07% | 4.59% |
| The CW | http://www.cwtv.com/ | 6.64% | 6.53% |
| MyNetworkTV | http://www.mynetworktv.com/ | 0.10% | 0.26% |
| Source: Rankings are based on custom category of television network websites among the six major broadcast networks for the week ending September 29, 2007 (Sunday – Saturday) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users.
*Does not include traffic from related stand alone websites such as American Idol, The Simpsons, Family Guy and America’s Most Wanted. |
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Among all U.S. Internet that contained the phrase “season premiere,” The ABC television series, Lost, was the most searched for premiering show for the four weeks ending September 29, 2007. Lost, which doesn’t premiere until early 2008, received 5.92 percent of U.S. searches amongst all the ‘season premiere’ searches which included the top three searches overall. The CW Network’s, One Tree Hill, received 1.59 percent of searches for the week ending September 29, 2007, making the show the fourth most searched for television series premiere. Following searches for One Tree Hill were Smallville, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Heroes and CSI.
