Ratings News - 12th February 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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Tuesday 2/11/14 Metered Market Ratings
The Winter Olympics Beats the Competition Combined

Household
Rating/Share
NBC 14.5/22
CBS 5.1/ 8
ABC 2.2/ 3
Fox 2.2/ 3
CW 0.6/ 1

Note: The year-to-year comparisons will be excluded during the XXII Winter Olympics

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-Winners:
The XXII Winter Olympics (NBC)

-Losers:
“Dads” (Fox), “Killer Women” (ABC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was all about The Winter Olympics on NBC last night, which averaged a 14.5 rating/22 share in the household overnights from 8-11 p.m. (peaking in the 9 p.m. half-hour with a 15.6/23). Comparably, NBC bested the No. 2 network, CBS, by a whopping 184 percent. CBS’ line-up consisted of encore telecasts of “NCIS” (6.1/ 9), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (5.1/ 8) and “Person of Interest” (4.1/ 7), which finished a distant second in each of the six half-hours.

If the Eye net does decide to pick-up the proposed new spin-off of “NCIS” for next season, airing out of the parent series on Tuesday could be an option (with “Los Angeles” ready to stand on its own).

In season (or series) finale news, a one-hour installment of Fox sitcom “Dads” finished fourth with a 2.3/ 4 in the overnights from 8-9 p.m. All things considered, “Dads” could have actually done worse leading off Tuesday this season. And it led into repeats of “New Girl” (#3: 2.3/ 3 at 9 p.m.) and relocated “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (#3: 2.1/ 3 at 9:30 p.m.), which is unlikely to be much of an improvement over recent time period occupant “The Mindy Project” once The Winter Olympics are over.

Elsewhere, a three-episode marathon of sitcom “The Goldbergs” on ABC (avg. 2.4/ 4 from 8-9:30 p.m.) led into a repeat of “Trophy Wife” at a fourth-place 1.7/ 3 at 9:30 p.m. Recently introduced drama “Killer Women,” which is waiting for the axe to swing, closed the night for the alphabet net with a distant third-place 2.3/ 4 at 10 p.m.

The CW, meanwhile, could not compete with a repeat of 2011 movie “Attack the Block,” which scored a 0.6/ 1 from 8-10 p.m.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source:

Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

About the Daily Ratings

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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