Boom Premiere Helps CN Get 52%-132% Ratings Growth From Same Period Last Year

12 November, 2014 8 February, 2021

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Sonic Boom seems to be a case of night and day. While the games face a sea of uncertainty there’s good news to report for the cartoon. A press release from Cartoon Network reported by TV By The Numbers indicates that the premiere was a ratings success. So much so that it was at the top of the charts along with the Pokemon XY cartoon:

Saturday morning programming (7-11 a.m.) earned year-over-year delivery gains across all targeted kids and boy demos, ranging from 20% to 46%. Sonic Boom (7 a.m.) and Pokémon the Series XY (8 a.m.) both ranked #1 in their respective time periods among kids 9-14 and boys 6-11/9-14. Both new episode premieres grew delivery of all targeted demos vs. the same time period last year, ranging from 52% to 132%.

It seems the promotion, while small in scale, wasn’t as needed as expected. The show’s premiere still did very well. The ultimate question still remains, however. Will people, and especially kids, keep watching? Time will tell. For now it’s the waiting game.

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

13 Comments

‘Tis good news, to be sure, but one cannot help but wonder if it’d have done even better at 8am, or even 9.

Operationgamer17 says:

12 November, 2014 at 6:46 PM

It probably wouldn’t have made much of a difference.

When people show a ”good news” in percentage i’m never impressed because it means nothing on its own and always depends on real numbers. It’s like when Wind Waker HD supposedly increased the wii U sales by 200% omg! Look at WWHD sales and it’s shit, it’s just that the wii u sales weren’t impressive in the first place. So i’m not sure what are we supposed to understand about these percentages you posted. I feel like they isolated it enough to make it look awesome: so first week (curiosity) it’s the best show (along with Pokemon XY) for boys inbetween 7 am and 8 am… wow big deal. Game of Throne must be jealous :p

This is great news!
Im not wondering why the premiere was success.
Because it really was cool.
They only showed us 2 episodes and i can already tell that this is my favoreite Sonic show.

Yeah well anything is a success in their first weeks. keep posting these from week to week and we’ll see if that dead in the morning timeslot will continue to produce these ratings.

That’s good to hear

While this is good news and I’m happy to hear about it, it should be too exaggerated either. The show had great quality but it was also very early in the morning. The most we can get from this data is Sonic Boom was better viewed at it’s time on Cartoon Network than thing last year. Also it’s on of the best kids shows this early in the morning. But at this point, as the article states, it’s a question of consistency. Will this many people, if not more, continue to watch this show when it airs on TV? Will the show continue at this quality and retain interest? I hope so and I also hope if it proves itself the show gets a better time slot.