Ratings: season highs for the big three

The top three syndies didn't leap ahead in the latest week. But they all made season highs for the still young 2018-19 year. TV News Check has the happy October 15-21 household ratings for the genre's leaders...

Family Feud 6.3 - up a tick to the first of three season highs
Jeopardy 6.1 - up a couple ticks to, yes, a season high
Wheel of Fortune 6.0 - up a tick to the third season high
Millionaire 1.6 - flat as almost always
Funny You Should Ask 0.5 - flat, what a surprise

In an odd bit of game show ratings news, we got a rare look at the graveyard shift. In the dead of night - the 3:00 AM hour, to be exact - GSN's Emogenius and Snap Decision drew 137K and 132K viewers. You don't expect big numbers at such an hour, but they both beat truTV's Paid Off. Okay, that's not a huge accomplishment.

Another note about GSN. The network continues to fall short of full distribution. In today's cord cutting world, 85-90 million households seems to be the range for top cable nets. The latest coverage estimate for GSN is 70.7 million. So it's no easy task for GSN to stay in the top 30 among cable networks.