{"id":26210,"date":"2016-07-19T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=26210"},"modified":"2016-07-19T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:02:57","slug":"717-ballers-season-premiere-viewership-rocks-hbo-series-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/19\/717-ballers-season-premiere-viewership-rocks-hbo-series-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/17 &#8220;Ballers&#8221; Season Premiere viewership &#8211; The Rock&#8217;s HBO series down from Season 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3577287424\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Season 2 of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Ballers&#8221; series starring &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Dwayne Johnson started very slow compared to\u00a0Season 1 in Summer 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Ballers&#8221; TV Viewership Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>July 17:<\/strong>\u00a0Ballers drew 1.585 million viewers on Sunday night, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/2016\/07\/18\/power-season-3-premiere-sets-a-record-for-starz\/\" target=\"_blank\">TVBytheNumbers.com<\/a>. This was down 27 percent (about 577,000 viewers) from the Season 1 premiere of 2.162 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>In the key demographics, Ballers scored a 0.8 adults 18-49 TV rating, down from a 1.1 for the Season 1 premiere episode.<\/p>\n<p>Among\u00a0cable TV programming on Sunday night, Ballers ranked #3 in the a18-49 demo, but ranked out of the Top 10 in terms of total viewers compared to other shows on basic cable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HBO Sunday Night Progression<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6:30 p.m.: &#8220;Straight Outta Compton&#8221; movie &#8211; 1.007 million viewers<\/li>\n<li>9:30 p.m.: &#8220;The Night Of&#8221; &#8211; 1.276 million viewers<\/li>\n<li>10:01 p.m.: Break leading into Ballers &#8211; 1.605 million viewers<\/li>\n<li><strong>10:04 p.m.: Ballers &#8211; 1.585 million viewers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:31 p.m.: Vice Principals &#8211; 1.154 million viewers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3541543594\"><div id=\"pwtor-2092319209\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Season 2 of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Ballers&#8221; series starring &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Dwayne Johnson started very slow compared to\u00a0Season 1 in Summer 2015. &#8220;Ballers&#8221; TV Viewership Tracking &#8211; July 17:\u00a0Ballers drew 1.585 million viewers on Sunday night, reports <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/19\/717-ballers-season-premiere-viewership-rocks-hbo-series-season-1\/\" title=\"7\/17 &#8220;Ballers&#8221; Season Premiere viewership &#8211; The Rock&#8217;s HBO series down from Season 1\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1370,3462,340,3461,294,528],"class_list":["post-26210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_etc","tag-ballers","tag-ballers-season-2","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-ballers","tag-the-rock","tag-the-rock-dwayne-johnson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/01\/RockTheTB_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26211,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions\/26211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}