Broadcast Networks Ratings Thread

[dfergie]

Thursday shows slump as TV usage declines

With a holiday week approaching, plenty of sports competition on cable and sweeps stunts winding down, most broadcast shows declined Thursday evening as CBS resumed control of the board. Overall TV usage slipped 4% from last week, which accounts for some of the loss.

Source & More: thrfeed.com

 

[dfergie]

CBS wins highly competitive ratings race

'Mother,' 'Big Bang' win over Fox, ABC

By STUART LEVINE

CBS won a very competitive Monday night behind the best 18-49 demo of the season for "How I Met Your Mother" and another strong showing of "The Big Bang Theory." Close behind was Fox, with new episodes of "House" and "Lie," while ABC took third with this season's penultimate showing of "Dancing With the Stars."

Source & More: variety.com

 

[dfergie]

'Dancing,' 'NCIS' duo top Tuesday

ABC victors in adults 18-49 demo; CBS tops overall viewers

By RICK KISSELL

At CBS, "NCIS" (4.4/13 in 18-49, 20.3 million viewers overall) opened the night with a dominant showing, standing as the night's top program in both demos and total viewers. And when "NCIS" character Abby crossed over to help solve a murder on "NCIS: Los Angeles," the rookie spinoff logged best-since-premiere scores (4.3/11 in 18-49, 17.2 million viewers overall), winning its hour in demos. Closing out the night was "The Good Wife" (2.8/8 in 18-49, 12.5 million viewers overall), which was up a bit week to week thanks to the stronger lead-in.

Source & More: variety.com

 

[dfergie]

'Amazing Race,' NBC 'Football' top Sunday ratings

'Desperate Housewives,' 'Brothers' also strong

By RICK KISSELL

CBS reality vet "Amazing Race" completed its strong season by topping its entertainment competition on Sunday, a night that still belongs to NBC's "Sunday Night Football." ABC also was above average with the fall finales of "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers & Sisters."

Source & More: variety.com

 

[dfergie]

Football boosts CBS, NBC

As 2009 ends, NFL games give networks a bump

By RICK KISSELL

CBS and NBC fared best in the last full week of 2009, with each getting a boost from NFL action on Sunday.

Sans football, ABC and Fox struggled in this typically quiet frame and put up the lowest scores for any major network this season.

Source & More: variety.com

 

[dfergie]

'Undercover Boss' tops Sunday entertainment shows

"Boss" was seen by 15.3 million viewers and drew a 5.1 preliminary rating among adults 18-49. Even factoring that the first "Boss" episode had a Super Bowl lead-in, this is an impressive Week Two performance for a non-serialized reality show. The premiere of "Race" (9.1 million, 2.8) was up slightly from last year. At 10 p.m. CBS switched from reality to crime drama "Cold Case" (8.7 million, 2.1), which dropped 13% from its last original airing despite having a large lead-in from "Boss."

Source & More: hollywoodreporter.com

 

[dfergie]

'Lost' halts drops; 'Idol' dominates Tuesday

ABC's "Lost" halted its post-premiere slips Tuesday night, showing a slight increase for the first time this final season.

Source & More: thrfeed.com

 

[dfergie]

TV Ratings: Back to Fourth Place for NBC

Big Numbers for The Bachelor and The Big Bang Theory

ABC dominated the night with two hours of The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love followed by an “After The Final Rose” special

CBS was second with a strong performance out of its two hour comedy block. The Big Bang Theory was just off from its record numbers for its last new episode (down only 2%). Two and a Half Men viewers definitely aren’t deterred by Charlie Sheen’s personal life.

Source & More: tvbythenumbers.com

 

[dfergie]

Leno (With Palin) Beats Letterman Badly Again On Night Two

The second night of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show v 2.0 dominated late night again with a 4.6 household rating/12 share in early household metered markets data from 11:30p-12:30a to Letterman’s The Late Show 3.1 rating/ 8 share. ABC’s Nightline had a 3.0 rating / 7 share and Jimmy Kimmel Live trailed with a 1.7 rating / 5 share.

Source & More: tvbythenumbers.com

 

[dfergie]

TV ratings: CBS is the 'Boss' of Sunday

CBS scored 11.35 million viewers and a 6.8 rating/11 share in households for the night, beating out ABC's 9.1 million and 5.6/9. NBC (7.1 million, 4.3/7) finished third, and FOX was off the pace a bit with 4.3 million viewers and a 2.5/4.

Source & More: blog.zap2it.com

 

[dfergie]

Leno Leads Letterman By Wide Margins In Wednesday Night Preliminary Numbers

In last night’s metered market numbers The Tonight Show with a 3.5/9 (household rating/share) led Late Show and its 2.7/7. In the 25 markets with Local People Meters Tonight Show led with adults 18-49, too with a 1.3/6 rating/share compared to Late Show’s 0.8/3.

Source & More: tvbythenumbers.com

 

[dfergie]

St. Patrick’s Day night offered very little in the way of new programming with CBS running repeats other than a new Gary Unmarried and ABC running all repeats except for Ugly Betty and what seems likely to be the series finale of Scrubs which was down 20% from last week. It doesn’t really matter since it has already been canceled, but Ugly Betty was down even more, 29% to its lowest ratings ever for an original episode not aired on a Friday.

Source & More: tvbythenumbers.com

 

[dfergie]

'Boss' defeats 'Apprentice' in ratings

NBC show drops off 19% in second week

By STUART LEVINE

CBS earned a fairly lopsided win Sunday night as "Undercover Boss" continued its strong returns, soundly defeating NBC's reality competition series "Celebrity Apprentice," which saw significant retraction

In total viewers: CBS, 13.1 million; ABC, 7.1 million; NBC, 5.5 million; Fox, 4.5 million; Univision, 2.3 million.

Source & More:variety.com

 

[dfergie]

'Stars' still shines for ABC in ratings

'Castle' scores series high for Alphabet

By RICK KISSELL

"Dancing With the Stars" and series-high scores for sophomore drama "Castle" carried ABC to a rather easy primetime ratings victory Monday, a night when the top scripted programs on competing networks aired in repeats.

Preliminary 18-49 averages for the night: ABC, 4.9/14; CBS, 2.8/8; Fox, 2.2/6; NBC, 1.8/5; CW, 0.9/2.
In total viewers: ABC, 19.9 million; CBS, 8.3 million; Fox, 6.5 million; NBC, 5.5 million; CW, 1.8 million.

Source & More: variety.com

 

[dfergie]

Basketball, reality shows lift CBS

Network edges Fox for week's ratings lead among young adults

By RICK KISSELL

Overall, according to "live plus same day" Nielsen estimates for the March 22-28 frame, CBS led in adults 18-49 with a 3.2 rating/10 share, followed by Fox (3.1/9), ABC (2.5/7), NBC (2.0/6) and Univision (1.2/4).
CBS also prevailed over Fox in adults 25-54 (4.0/11 to 3.5/9) and total viewers (11.1 million to 8.9 million), while Fox held the advantage among the younger 12-34 crowd (2.4/8 to 2.2/8 for CBS).

Source & More: variety.com

 

[dfergie]

TV Ratings: Canceled 'Medium' helps CBS to another Friday Win

CBS continues its successful Friday streak -- led by the just canceled "Medium," which experienced a slight raise in the ratings this week
Source & More: zap2it.com

 

[riffjim4069]

Thanks for reviving this thread...

 

[dfergie]

Thanks for reviving this thread...

I couldn't believe it had been that long since a post...
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[dfergie]

TV Ratings Monday: Skating with the Stars Falls Down; Chuck, House Hit Lows; CBS Win

CBS won the night with adults 18-49 and ABC had the most total viewers. Due to the odd start times, we can’t see precise numbers for the shows, but we can see enough to know that Skating with the Stars didn’t get off to a good start, dropping to a 1.9 rating with adults 18-49 between 10p-11p and it declined in each half hour. Earlier in the night Dancing with the Stars scored a 4.7 rating with adults 18-49 from 8p-9p for its performance finale, up 18% from last week and 15% from last fall.

Source & More: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com

 

[MikeD-C05]

Skating with the stars sucked big time. I hated the British host, I hated the so called "stars" and I really didn't care for the skating. I predict here that this will be gone very quickly due to low, low, low, ratings.