Ratings News - 15th April 2013 (Tables Posted)

NOTE: CBS Numbers are not added due to the large overrun of the Golf on CBS. They will be added to the Ratings Database later once the final adjusted overnight numbers are released.

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)

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)

For more information on the Nielsen Ratings see this Wikipedia Entry.

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

SUNDAY 4/14/13 Metered Markets
Clean Sweep for Atypical CBS

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 9.0/15
NBC 3.2/ 5
ABC 2.5/ 4
Fox 2.1/ 3

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Sunday 4/16/12:
CBS: +34, Fox: - 9, ABC: -24, NBC: -33

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-Winners:
"Masters Golf" (CBS), "60 Minutes" (CBS), "The Amazing Race" (CBS), "The Good Wife" (CBS)

-Losers (Excluding Repeats):
"The Cleveland Show" (Fox)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
Due to a 57-minute "Masters Golf" primetime overrun, the individual program results for CBS are approximate. That said, it was an easy Sunday overnight victory for CBS, which beat the three competing networks combined and finished a distant first in each of the eight half-hours. The "Masters Golf" overrun led the evening with a 12.9 rating/23 share in the in the 7 p.m. hour. Next was an 8 p.m. edition of "60 Minutes" at a 9.1/15, followed by "The Amazing Race" (6.7/10) and older skewing "The Good Wife" (7.3/12) from 9-11 p.m. All were above average and all are returning next season. An 11 p.m. edition of "The Mentalist" scored a 5.3/11 in the overnights.

NBC opened the evening with a two-hour encore telecast of "The Voice" at a 2.6/ 4 in the overnights from 7-9 p.m., followed by two-hours of "Celebrity Apprentice" at a distant second-place 3.8/ 6 from 9-11 p.m. Although that is down by a noticeable 24 percent year-to-year (versus a 5.0/ 8 on 4/15/12), "Celebrity Apprentice" is poised for victory among adults 18-49 in the 10 p.m. hour.

Over at ABC, a repeat of veteran "America's Funniest Home Videos" (#2: 3.3/ 6 at 7 p.m.) led into an original installment of "Once Upon a Time" at a below-average 3.3/ 5, which finished a distant second at 8 p.m. "Repeats of "Revenge" (#4: 1.9/ 3 at 9 p.m.) and recently introduced "Red Widow" (#3: 1.9/ 3 at 10 p.m.) capped off the evening for the alphabet net.

Diluted Fox closed the night with its combination of an encore of Bob's Burgers (#4: 1.1/ 2 at 7 p.m.), and the original rotation of "The Cleveland Show" (#4: 1.5/ 3), "The Simpsons" (#4: 2.5/ 4), "Bob's Burgers" (#4: 2.1/ 3), "Family Guy" (#3: 3.2/ 5) and "American Dad" (#3: 2.5/ 4) from 7:30-10 p.m.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source: Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

About the Daily Ratings

Each day (except Sunday) we post the TV Ratings for the previous night.

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).

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)

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