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Metered Market Tuesday Ratings
Clean Sweep for CBS
Tuesday 4/15/14
Household
Rating/Share
CBS 9.0/15
NBC 5.4/ 9
ABC 2.7/ 4
Fox 1.9/ 3
CW 1.2/ 2
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-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 4/16/13:
CW: +50, CBS: +48, NBC: +17, Fox: -24, ABC: -58
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-Winners:
“NCIS” (CBS), “The Voice” (NBC), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS), “Person of Interest” (CBS)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Glee” (Fox), “New Girl” (Fox), “The Mindy Project” (Fox), “Celebrity Wife Swap” (ABC)
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Ratings Breakdown:
It was another clean Tuesday overnight household sweep for CBS with its combination of “NCIS” (11.0 rating/18 share – #1 for the night), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (9.0/14) and “Person of Interest” (6.9/12). And NBC, which could still win the evening among adults 18-49 (and other key young adult demos), got a boost by the solid 7.5/12 in the overnights for “The Voice” from 8-9 p.m. Lifted by “The Voice,” lead-out NBC sitcoms “About a Boy” (4.6/ 7) and “Growing Up Fisher” (3.7/ 6) remained second in the 9-10 p.m. hour, followed by reliable (and already renewed) “Chicago Fire” at a second-place 4.6/ 8 at 10 p.m.
Over at ABC, a 9 p.m. airing of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” finished third in the hour with a 3.6/ 6, which was on par with what it normally does at 8 p.m. In other words, consider this disappointing. In season-premiere news was lead-out “Celebrity Wife Swap,” featuring Daniel Baldwin and Jermaine Jackson, at a very distant third-place 2.3/ 4 at 10 p.m. Comparably, “Celebrity Wife Swap” dropped by 63 percent from year-ago time period occupant “Body of Proof” (6.2/11 on 4/16/13). And the retention out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (3.5/ 6) was modest at 66 percent. Earlier in the evening on the alphabet net was an encore of “S.H.I.E.L.D.” at a third-place 2.2/ 3 at 8 p.m.
Elsewhere, Fox could not compete with its failing line-up of “Glee” (#4: 2.0/ 4), “New Girl” (#4: 1.9/ 3) and “The Mindy Project” (#4: 1.8/ 3). And The CW scored a 1.2/ 2 for both “The Originals” and “Supernatural,” which is nothing original.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Clean Sweep for CBS
Tuesday 4/15/14
Household
Rating/Share
CBS 9.0/15
NBC 5.4/ 9
ABC 2.7/ 4
Fox 1.9/ 3
CW 1.2/ 2
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-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 4/16/13:
CW: +50, CBS: +48, NBC: +17, Fox: -24, ABC: -58
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-Winners:
“NCIS” (CBS), “The Voice” (NBC), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS), “Person of Interest” (CBS)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Glee” (Fox), “New Girl” (Fox), “The Mindy Project” (Fox), “Celebrity Wife Swap” (ABC)
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Ratings Breakdown:
It was another clean Tuesday overnight household sweep for CBS with its combination of “NCIS” (11.0 rating/18 share – #1 for the night), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (9.0/14) and “Person of Interest” (6.9/12). And NBC, which could still win the evening among adults 18-49 (and other key young adult demos), got a boost by the solid 7.5/12 in the overnights for “The Voice” from 8-9 p.m. Lifted by “The Voice,” lead-out NBC sitcoms “About a Boy” (4.6/ 7) and “Growing Up Fisher” (3.7/ 6) remained second in the 9-10 p.m. hour, followed by reliable (and already renewed) “Chicago Fire” at a second-place 4.6/ 8 at 10 p.m.
Over at ABC, a 9 p.m. airing of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” finished third in the hour with a 3.6/ 6, which was on par with what it normally does at 8 p.m. In other words, consider this disappointing. In season-premiere news was lead-out “Celebrity Wife Swap,” featuring Daniel Baldwin and Jermaine Jackson, at a very distant third-place 2.3/ 4 at 10 p.m. Comparably, “Celebrity Wife Swap” dropped by 63 percent from year-ago time period occupant “Body of Proof” (6.2/11 on 4/16/13). And the retention out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (3.5/ 6) was modest at 66 percent. Earlier in the evening on the alphabet net was an encore of “S.H.I.E.L.D.” at a third-place 2.2/ 3 at 8 p.m.
Elsewhere, Fox could not compete with its failing line-up of “Glee” (#4: 2.0/ 4), “New Girl” (#4: 1.9/ 3) and “The Mindy Project” (#4: 1.8/ 3). And The CW scored a 1.2/ 2 for both “The Originals” and “Supernatural,” which is nothing original.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
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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.
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