Monaco, June 11th 2010
The Monte-Carlo TV Festival and Eurodata TV Worldwide announce the Winners of the
5th International TV Audience Awards
 The Monte-Carlo TV Festival and Eurodata TV Worldwide have joined forces in order to reward programs who delivered the highest ratings worldwide.
David Tomatis, Chief Executive Officer of the Festival and Jacques Braun, Médiamétrie Executive Director and Eurodata TV Worldwide Vice President, revealed the winners of the 5th International TV Audience Awards yesterday night at the 50th Monte-Carlo Television Festival Awards Ceremony at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
Are rewarded the programs delivering the highest ratings worldwide in 2009 across five continents in three categories: “Drama TV Series“, “Comedy TV Series”, and "Telenovelas / Soap Operas".
Revealed on the occasion of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Press Conference in Paris, the nominees were pre-selected among the fifteen best imported fiction programs in 68 countries, i.e. almost 1.7 billion potential viewers.
For the most-watched television shows, the winners are:
 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (USA) for “Drama TV Series”
in competition with CSI Miami (USA) and House (USA)
CSI Las Vegas gathered more than 73.8 million viewers worldwide in 2009*.
Desperate Housewives (USA) for “Comedy TV Series”
in competition with How I met your mother (USA) and Monk (USA).
Desperate Housewives gathered 51.6 million viewers worldwide in 2009*.
The Bold and The Beautiful (USA) for “Telenovelas / Soap Operas”
in competition with The Young and the Restless (USA).
The Bold and The Beautiful gathered more than 23.1 million viewers worldwide in 2009*.
* Total of TV ratings of the best performing episode in the broadcast countries among the 68 countries included in the survey.
Source : Eurodata TV Worldwide / AGB CDI Dominicana (Dominican Republic) / AGB Nielsen Media Research (Venezuela) / AGF-GfK Fernsehforschung (Germany) / AGTT (Austria) / ATO (Czech Republic) / Armadata SRL (Romania) / aMap (India) / Auditel (Italy) / BARB (United Kingdom) / BBM Canada / Capacent (Iceland) / CIAUMED (Morocco) / CIM (Belgium) / CSM Media Research (China & Hong Kong) / Finnpanel Oy (Finland) / Gallup TV Meter (Denmark) / GEVS (Belarus) / GfK Ukraine / IARB (Israel) / IBOPE Media Information (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico) / Ipsos Stat Lebanon AGB NMR / Kantar Media (Singapore, Spain) / Mareco Index Bosnia / Marktest-Audimetria (Portugal) / Médiamétrie (France) / MMS (Sweden) / Nielsen Audience Measurement (Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Macedonia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand) / Nielsen Media Research (USA) / PMT (Slovakia) / Publica Data AG (Switzerland) / Regional TAM - Nielsen Audience Measurement (Australia) / SAARF (South Africa) / SIC Gallup Media (Lithuania) / SKO-Stichting KijkOnderzoek (The Netherlands) / TIAK (Turkey) / TNS Emor (Estonia) / TNS Gallup (Norway) / TNS Gallup Central Asia (Kazakhstan) / TNS Media Research (Russia) / TNS Media Vietnam / TNS Latvia / TNS Egypt / TNS TV Plan (Bulgaria) / TV MR AM (Armenia) / TV MR AZ (Azerbaijan) / TV MR GE (Georgia) / TV MR MLD (Moldova) / Video Research Ltd (Japan)
Scope of Survey : Argentina, Armenia, Australia (Regional TAM), Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela, Vietnam.
About Eurodata TV Worldwide
Created by Médiamétrie, Eurodata TV Worldwide distributes programming and audience information, based on its partnership with the national institutes operating people meter systems throughout the world. Today, Eurodata TV Worldwide’s database contains more than 2000 channels in more than 80 countries and provides an exhaustive amount of daily program information including: content, production, international distribution and the audience levels for targeted programs, all data emanating directly from the relevant authorized institute based in each country around the world. These data provide a range of services which help in the decision-making process of international professionals within the audio-visual world like producers, distributors, broadcasters, copyright organisations, sponsors, etc.
About Médiamétrie
Remember that Médiamétrie is the French inter-professional company which measures the audiences of both audio-visual and interactive mediums. It’s aim is to ensure audience and performance measurement for the audio-visual and interactive medias and in addition to attain the high level of quality to be the unique professional reference for all the market players with the general consensus. Médiamétrie was created in 1985, and has developed it’s Television, Radio, Cinema, Internet and New Media activities in France and abroad.
For all press information, please contact:
Nelly Dubner – Médiamétrie
Tel : + 33 1 47 58 97 26 – Fax : + 33 1 47 58 09 26
E-mail : ndubner@mediametrie.fr / www.mediametrie.fr
Geneviève Revel – Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo
Tel : + 377 93 10 40 69 – Fax : + 377 93 50 70 14
E-mail : g.revel@tvfestival.com
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