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This is sort of what I mean. If Family Guy is down, less people overall were watching AS in general that night. It has nothing to do with Toonami. It followed the same usual ratings pattern just a little lower. An aside: I actually had to request those Family Guy ratings, as did Sketch the week before. It seems he doesn’t post the prime time numbers for each network anymore, so Family Guy will probably have to be asked for each week. But I think it’s essential to get an idea of how the block did. Maybe if he’s asked every week he’ll go back to posting them!

Well if that happens all of AS that night should be down, including Family Guy. I’d only worry if there a huge drop from the comedies into Toonami

It’s a live stream panel https://mobile.twitter.com/discotekmedia/status/954397946363219968

I asked SotB. Hopefully he gets back soon. Took him almost a week when Sketch asked him last week. I’m hoping if he’s asked every week he’ll just go back to including it Edit: FG got 930,000 0.38 18-49

They are just going to have to rebuild the lineup from the front. Jojo and Gundam are just going to have to cycle out and hopefully we get some stuff that retain the front better! Here’s hoping for something good as the mystery show.

And we were worried that it didn’t hit 1.1 million?

I hope it’s just football. We had such a good thing going before the holidays! Its a “everything on the network” being down thing and not necessarily one show causing the problem. It’s the same overall pattern, just lower overall

Yeah that’s gone as well! It’s a shame because the regular site only goes out 5 days!

I did. I didn’t get a response unfortunately. It’s ok though because the site should be back eventually!

Hi guys, The fan created XML schedule has been down. I was wondering if anyone remembered how to manually manipulate the data from the main site to view beyond 5 days.I used to know how to do it as did many from the ASMB but I forgot. Any help would be appreciated!

We have no idea if the financials involved. If they got a good deal on it, it may be considered a success. If they paid a lot of money for it, then perhaps not. It was never moved down for one thing. Another factor is that they now have a relationship with TMS directly which would make getting the TV rights for part 5 easier.

Will it be Wednesday this week because of MLK day ?

We finally have the numbers for Family Guy. http://programminginsider.com/saturday-cable-final-nationals-titans-chiefs-espn-tops-day-least-watched-nfl-playoff-game-six-years/ (Comments) 1,035,000 0.47 18-49 which means it barely edged out over Super !

Crystal is especially redundant. Every episode the spend about 6 minutes on transformations alone using the same stock footage

At this point, Sailor Moon is readily available on Hulu dubbed. It’s not going to do Toonami any favors at this point

I hope they don’t do a St. Patrick Days marathon. This is supposed to be the glorious time of year with no marathons! Plus you know there will be some April Fools thing 2 weeks later!

With One Piece, I had a feeling it was cost vs benefit. That’s the one side of things we never see.

This was a strange night for Kai, which doesn't usualy retain Super that well. Black Clover got a little lift as a result, every week its audience is growing. I think the block is on an upswing and the gains will gradually go deeper into the block as the weeks go on. The holidays may throw things off when we come back in January, but Super is getting alot of buzz because of a certain special guest star VA in the next episode. If Funimation and Toonami keep up the promotion, we could get more people than average tuning in for it on January 6th! I hope Super beat Family Guy again! The drop going into Jojo and beyond does make me wonder how HxH and Shipuden faired. I feel like Hunter in particular is being wasted at 1:00 and would work well following Black Clover. Poor Lupin, but he's almost finished his run and I'm glad he got another shot on TV! Who knows though, depending on what kind of deal they got with TMS/Discotek, it may have done what was expected of it!

At least the earlier part of the block is affected by how well it starts. Higher Super means higher Kai means higher Black Clover. Black Clover isn't performing the way it is due to any active dislike for it I don't think. It's just limited depending on what Kai does. The rest of the block is on par with how it has been doing for months now. Super has a more concentrated audience in the beginning of the block now, but I don't think thats all of a sudden going to get those same people to stick with the block the rest of the night. As far as the low 18-34, it's possible that we are starting to see a demo shift, where some of the older fans of the original block are starting to age out of the demo or have things going on in their lives which is keeping them from viewing the block live. They aren't necessarily being replaced with new fans as they may not even have a connection to the block. Thats something AS will have to deal with and understand as time goes on and adjust their target demo.

This makes me wonder if they are really going to pull something April Fools wise for Toonami? i thing the safe bet is to just mess with the packaging but leave the shows alone

Well, we have to see how Family Guy at 10:00 performed to get a sense Super's performance. Imagine if it actually BEAT it? It also was the number 4 show on the list so thats something. If you you want to blame a show here, its Kai, which dropped a large amount of viewers. But I see some positives here: Black Clover and the rest retained pretty good!

I’m guessing they would slide the DB hour to 10 and put FLCL at 11. It’s not quite mainstream enough to lead off the block I think. This still gives it a great time slot though. It’s an original, but probably won’t touch what Jack could. I suppose it all depends on how DBS does as an actual premiere at 10:30! We’ll see!

They’ll adjust it accordingly. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Family Guy that early

http://adultswim.x10.mx/ So it looks like this is what they are doing with the new Toonami start time 8- Cleveland Show 8:30- Family Guy 9:00 Rick and Morty 9:30 Rick and Morty 10:00 Family Guy 10:30 Dragonball Super (actual Toonami premiere) I guess this was a compromise for TOEI. This schedule should have some interesting results. Splitting Family Guy up like that is an strange move.

This is true. I believe I mentioned it before, but everytime Toonami's numbers have dipped is usually due to the lead in it has. 2015 started off the year with Boondocks and Black Dynamite leading into Titan reruns. This is what caused the block to be cut in half. Bringing in FOX comedies leading into Kai really gave the block high numbers, but it comes at a cost since they don't own the FOX shows and they are actually spending money to keep Toonami propped up. This year has seen a gradual decrease in total viewers, but they are spending far less money on Saturday night in order to get what Toonami is doing now. Combine that with the overall decline in cable and it's real easy to see why the numbers have been decreasing. There's a direct correlation between the adding/removal of FOX comedies in primetime to Toonami's numbers going up and down. At the beginning of the year we still had American Dad and Bobs Burgers on in primetime along with the 11:00 PM slot still going to comedy before Jack premiered. Now it's Super encore, the stealth premiere, and an hour of Rick. It's taking far less resources for Toonami to stand on it's own than before, so maybe AS is really happy with the results. Otherwise, I can't really see them expanding the block and keeping it at 11. They are usually very reactive to ratings and would've made an adjustment by now if it was a concern.