Ratings News - 7th April 2014

Today's Early Overnight 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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Sunday 4/06/14 Metered Markets
Easy Victory for the Eye net; More Erosion for “Resurrection” on ABC

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 8.0/13
ABC 4.0/ 6
NBC 2.7/ 4
Fox 2.2/ 3

-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening – Sunday 4/07/13:
ABC: +74, Fox: +22, NBC: no change, CBS: – 4

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-Winners:
“60 Minutes” (CBS), “The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards” (CBS)

-Fading:
“Revenge” (ABC)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“American Dream Builders” (NBC), “Believe” (NBC), “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” (Fox)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was an easy overnight Sunday victory for CBS, with “The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards” at an 8.2 rating/13 share in households from 8-11 p.m., peaking in the 9 p.m. half-hour with an 8.5/13. Comparably, this was just six percent below the 8.7/14 for the annual awards show on the year-ago evening (which translated into 15.50 million viewers and a 4.3 rating/11 share among adults 18-49, according to the live plus same day data). Lead-in granddaddy “60 Minutes” opened the night with a dominant 7.5/13 in the 7 p.m. hour.

In week five news, ABC drama “Resurrection” is still bleeding with a second-place 5.0/ 7 in the household overnights from 9-10 p.m. While this was 79 percent ahead of competing “Believe” on NBC (2.8/ 4) and 22 percent above lead-in “Once Upon a Time” (4.1/ 6 at 8 p.m.), “Resurrection” was down by another nine percent from one week earlier and it needs to settle in now. Five-week overnight track for “Resurrection”: 8.5/13 – 7.0/10 – 6.2/10 – 5.5/ 8 – 5.0/ 7.

“Revenge” on ABC also finished second behind the “49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards,” but it dipped to a 3.5/ 6 at 10 p.m. And its advantage over week four of competing “Crisis” on NBC (3.1/ 5) was only 13 percent. Worth positively noting for “Crisis” was overnight growth out of “Believe” of 11 percent.

Earlier in the evening on ABC was veteran “America’s Funniest Home Videos” at a second-place 3.3/ 6 at 7 p.m. NBC, meanwhile, opened the night with news special, “Ann Curry Reports: Our Year of Extremes – Did Climate Change Just Hit Home?” at a third-place 2.9/ 5 at 7 p.m. And Ann Curry led into a series-low 2.0/ 3 for “American Dream Builders” (#4) from 8-9 p.m., which is also airing in the 10 p.m. hour tonight (out of “The Voice”).

Last in the overnights was Fox with its line-up of animated “Bob’s Burgers” (#4: 1.5/ 3), “American Dad” (#4: 1.5/ 3), “The Simpsons” (#3: 2.4/ 4) and “Family Guy” (#3: 2.8/ 4) from 7-9 p.m., and recent entry “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” at a series-low (and last-place) 2.5/ 4 from 9-10 p.m.

Source: Nielsen Media Research

Source:

Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

About the Daily Ratings

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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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