Ratings News - 11th December 2013

Today's Early Overnight Ratings

This table shows the early overnight ratings. These ratings are normally adjusted later in the day when all the ratings have been consolidated to take into account any local preemptions and/or overruns. You can find all the final adjusted numbers in our Ratings Database. (See the About section below for details about ratings)

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Early Ratings Analysis

The analysis below is based on the early household numbers and are NOT the same as the numbers that will be posted in the above table later. (See the About section below)

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NOTE: The opinions expressed here are NOT those of SpoilerTV but of the Author of this Article, Marc Berman.

Tuesday 12/10/13 Metered Market Ratings
Easy Victory for CBS; Season High for “Chicago Fire” on NBC

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 9.2/15
NBC 5.9/10
Fox 3.2/ 5
ABC 3.1/ 5
CW 0.6/ 1

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 12/11/12:
Fox: +23, ABC: + 7, NBC: + 5, CBS: + 2, CW: -40

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-Winners:
“NCIS” (CBS), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS), “The Voice” (NBC), “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” (CBS), “Chicago Fire” (NBC)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“The American Country Awards” (Fox), “The Goldbergs” (ABC), “Trophy Wife” (ABC), “What Would You Do?” (ABC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
CBS scored a typical Tuesday overnight household victory, but it was not a clean six half-hour sweep courtesy of the season-high 5.9 rating/10 share for NBC’s “Chicago Fire” at 10 p.m. “NCIS” on the Eye net topped the night, of course, with a 12.1/19 at 8 p.m. And that led into a dominant 9.6/15 for “NCIS: Los Angeles” at 9 p.m. At 10 p.m., annual special “The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” scored a 6.0/10, which won the hour overall and was just six percent below the 6.4/11 for the year-ago edition in the time period (on 12/04/12). That 6.4/11 translated into 9.48 million viewers and a 3.6 rating/10 share among adults 18-49, based on the live plus same day data.

On NBC, reliable “The Biggest Loser” (#2: 4.4/ 7) and demo dominant “The Voice” (#2: 7.4/12) were down by single-digit percentages from one week earlier, while aforementioned “Chicago Fire” (#2: 5.9/10) increased by nine percent. Comparably, “Chicago Fire” bested year-ago occupant “Parenthood” (4.2/ 7 on 12/11/12) by a hefty 40 percent.

Over at ABC, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” slipped to a series-low 4.4/ 7 (#2) at 8 p.m. And that led into typically lackluster performances for freshman comedies “The Goldbergs” (#3: 3.3/ 5) and “Trophy Wife” (#4: 2.6/ 4) from 9-10 p.m. At 10 p.m., recent returnee “What Would You Do?.” which is normally a late spring/summer staple, could not compete with a distant third-place 2.3/ 4 in the overnights at 10 p.m.

In the specials department was annual “The American Country Awards” on Fox, which scored a modest 3.2/ 5 (and fourth-place) in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. Comparably, this was six percent below the last year’s 3.4/ 5 (on Monday 12/10/12, which translated into 5.07 million viewers and a 1.4/ 4 among adults 18-49, based on the live plus same day data).

The CW capped off the evening with encores of the “The iHeart Radio Release Party with Katie Perry” (#5: 0.7/ 1) and “The iHeart Radio Release Party with Lady Gaga” (#5: 0.5/ 1).

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source: Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

About the Daily Ratings

Each day (except Sunday) during the main TV Season we post the TV Ratings for the previous nights primetime shows for the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC). Cable Network ratings will be added to the Ratings Database.

The first item that gets posted (normally around 2pm GMT) is the early overnight analysis based on the early household numbers (these are not the same as the Total Viewers and 18-49 Demo numbers that are posted later).

Next, if available, we will post the Top 25 Market 18-49 Ratings to give you a rough idea of the ratings to following.

Later on (normally between 4pm-5pm GMT) we post the official early overnight Total Viewers and 18-49 Demo numbers in the table above.

Finally, later in the evening (10pm-11pm GMT) or the following day, the final adjusted ratings numbers are released, these are then posted in the Ratings Database. The Final Adjusted numbers are what we use for all our Renew/Cancellation Tables, Full Season Tables, Ratings Scorecards etc (see below). Friday's Final Adjusted Ratings are normally available on the following Monday.

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