Television
March 4, 2014
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Breaks Ratings Records
(March 4, 2014 – Burbank, CA) – Monday's live post-Oscar episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was the highest rated episode in the series' 11-year history, averaging a 4.8 Household rating/11 share in the overnight markets, a full ratings point higher than the series' previous high 3.8, earned a decade ago (1/26/04). The episode was the highest rated with W18-49 (2.1/11) and W25-54 (2.7/13) in the LPM Era (which began in the 08-09 season) (NSI WRAP Overnights, Weighted market average, Live +SD where available).
DeGeneres also set records across the daytime talk show’s social media channels following her Oscar hosting duties on Sunday, March 2 as the ultimate selfie temporarily shut down Twitter:
“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” now in its eleventh season continues to be the daytime destination for laughter and fun, highlighting Ellen’s one-of-a-kind observational humor, warmth and generosity, and features the biggest stars from television, film, music and more. The show has now earned an impressive total of 45 Daytime Emmy Awards. "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" premiered on September 8, 2003 and was the highest-rated freshman syndicated show of the 2003-2004 season. Originating from Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" is produced by A Very Good Production and WAD Productions, Inc. in association with Telepictures, an industry leading and Emmy award-winning producer of syndicated programming, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. Ellen DeGeneres, Mary Connelly, Ed Glavin and Andy Lassner serve as executive producers.###
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• The record-breaking selfie was retweeted 3.14MM times, a Twitter record previously held by @BarackObama with 782K retweets (Twitter).
• “Ellen” added 2.7MM new followers after the tweet, making for a total of 27.4MM Twitter followers (Twitter analytics).
• @TheEllenShow currently ranks the number twelve Twitter user with the most followers (Twittercounter.com).
• As of Tuesday March 4, 2014 “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” has attained over 13MM Facebook likes, with 500K new likes over the past two days (Facebook Insights).
• On Facebook today, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” ranks the #1 fastest growing television show page, #1 most-engaging, likes and #10 fastest growing pages, overall (allfacebook.com).
“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” now in its eleventh season continues to be the daytime destination for laughter and fun, highlighting Ellen’s one-of-a-kind observational humor, warmth and generosity, and features the biggest stars from television, film, music and more. The show has now earned an impressive total of 45 Daytime Emmy Awards. "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" premiered on September 8, 2003 and was the highest-rated freshman syndicated show of the 2003-2004 season. Originating from Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" is produced by A Very Good Production and WAD Productions, Inc. in association with Telepictures, an industry leading and Emmy award-winning producer of syndicated programming, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. Ellen DeGeneres, Mary Connelly, Ed Glavin and Andy Lassner serve as executive producers.