Ratings News - 29th January 2015

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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Metered Market Wednesday Ratings
More Unprecedented Growth for “Empire” on Fox

Wednesday 1/28/15

Note: The CBS affiliates in Charlotte, Norfolk and Richmond; and the ABC affiliate in Louisville aired ACC College Basketball.

Household
Rating/Share
Fox 7.9/12
CBS 5.9/10
ABC 3.0/ 5
NBC 2.6/ 4
CW 1.6/ 2

-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening – Wednesday 1/29/14:
CBS: +20, CW: no change, Fox: – 5, ABC: -19, NBC: -43

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Note: The following labels are based on the household overnights and are subject to change given the availability of other pending data streams. The overnights are your first look at what to potentially expect when the other results come in. And we always take into account other benchmarks including the expected demographic ratings, potential DVR usage, the critical acclaim (or lack of) and the social media presence.

-Winners:
“American Idol” (Fox), “Empire” (Fox)

-Honorable Mention:
“The Mentalist” (CBS), “Criminal Minds” (CBS)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“The 100” (CW)

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Ratings Breakdown:
In what could be a first for any network historically, bona fide new hit drama “Empire” on Fox built in the overnights for the third consecutive week. It rose to a 7.9 rating/12 share in households from 9-10 p.m., which was four percent above the 7.6/12 one week earlier (and that translated into a stellar 11.07 million viewers and a 4.4 rating/13 share among adults 18-49, based on the Live + Same Day data). Comparably, overnight retention for “Empire” out of the 8:30 p.m. portion of “American Idol” (8.2/13) was rock-solid at 96 percent. And growth for “Empire” out of “American Idol” among adults 18-49 last week (4.4/13 vs. 3.4/11) was 29 percent. Four-week overnight track for “Empire”: 6.8/10 – 7.3/11 – 7.6/12 – 7.9/12.

“American Idol,” meanwhile, scored a 7.9/12 from 8-9 p.m., which was only five percent below the 8.3/13 on the year-ago evening.

Over at CBS, temporary 8-9 p.m. time period filler “The Mentalist” remained a valid older-skewing option at a second-place 6.1/ 9 in the household overnights. Comparably, this was on par from one week earlier, and it led into a typical 6.4/10 (#2) for veteran “Criminal Minds” from 9-10 p.m. On-the-fence “Stalker” capped off the night for the Eye net with a first-place 5.3/ 9 at 10 p.m., which was also equal to one week earlier. Chances of “Stalker” returning for a second season are truly 50-50.

Elsewhere, ABC populated the evening with encore telecasts of sitcoms “The Middle” (#3: 3.7/ 6), “The Goldbergs” (#3: 3.1/ 5), “Modern Family” (#3: 3.5/ 5) and three episodes of “Black-ish” (9:30 p.m.: #3: 2.7/ 4; 10 p.m. #3: 2.6/ 4; 10:30 p.m.: #3: 2.2/ 4). Note to the Emmy voters: Eden Sher on “The Middle” needs to finally be recognized! NBC also traveled the repeat route care of “The Mysteries of Laura” (#4: 2.7/ 4), “Law & Order: SVU” (#4: 2.5/ 4) and “Chicago PD” (#2: 2.7/ 5). And sophomore “The 100” on The CW (#5: 1.1/ 2 at 9 p.m.) continues to squander the lead-in support from “Arrow” (#5: 2.1/ 3 at 8 p.m.), which an overnight loss of 48 percent.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source:

Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

About the Daily Ratings

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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 (We also where possible now post the 18-34 and 25-54 Demo Numbers).

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