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
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Early Ratings Analysis
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Marc Berman.
SUNDAY 5/19/13 Metered Markets
ABC is Poised for Young Adult Victory
Household
Rating/Share
ABC 5.9/10
CBS 5.8/10
NBC 2.8/ 5
Fox 2.6/ 4
-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Sunday 5/21/12:
ABC: +16, Fox: no change, CBS: -27, NBC: -32
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-Winners:
“60 Minutes” (CBS), “2013 Billboard Music Awards” (ABC)
-Capping Off a Sluggish Season:
“Celebrity Apprentice” (NBC)
-Losers (Excluding Repeats):
“ACM Presents: Tim McGraw’s Superstar Summer Night” (CBS)
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-Ratings Breakdown:
ABC inched past CBS by one-tenth of a rating point for Sunday overnight dominance, with its combination of the season-finale of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (#2: 3.9 rating/7 share at 7 p.m.) and “The 2013 Billboard Music Awards,” which averaged a dominant 6.6/11 from 8-11 p.m. Comparably, this was an improvement of 22 percent from the 5.4/ 9 on the year-ago evening, which translated into 7.40 million viewers and a 2.7/ 7 among adults 18-49 (according to the live plus same day data).
CBS’ close second-place finish was a result of two hours of granddaddy “60 Minutes” (7.4/13 from 7-9 p.m.) and two-hour special “ACM Presents: Tim McGraw’s Superstar Summer Night,” which did not impress at a 4.0/ 7 from 9-11 p.m. Comparably, directly competing “The Billboard Music Awards” held a 65 percent advantage. Needless to say, ABC should have no trouble winning the evening in all the young adult demos.
In season-finale news, “Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC concluded its below-average season exactly that way with a 3.8/ 6 in the overnights from 9-11 p.m. Comparably, that was 27 percent below the 5.2/ 8 for the year-ago season-ender (on 5/20/12).
Earlier in the evening on the Peacock net was two encore hours of “The Voice” at a 1.8/ 3 from 7-9 p.m.
Fox, meanwhile, opened with the one-hour series finale of “The Cleveland Show,” which earned its cancellation stripes with a last-place 1.6/ 3 in the overnights from 7-8 p.m. Like any animated series (where the characters do not age), “The Cleveland Show,” which is now officially out of production, can always return at a later time. Next on Fox were the one-hour season-finale installments of “The Simpsons” (#3: 2.7/ 5 from 8-9 p.m.) and “Family Guy” (#4: 3.3/ 5 from 9-10 p.m.). Year-to-year, “The Simpsons” slipped by 13 percent in the overnights (versus a 3.1/ 5 on 5/20/12), while “Family Guy” was virtually flat.
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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