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Tuesday 2/18/14 Metered Market Ratings
Below-Average The Winter Olympics Still Rules; More Solid Sampling for Jimmy Fallon
Household
Rating/Share
NBC 11.9/19
Fox 6.5/10
CBS 5.2/ 8
ABC 2.0/ 3
CW 0.7/ 1
Note: The year-to-year comparisons will be excluded during the XXII Winter Olympics
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-Winners:
The Winter Olympics (NBC), “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC)
-Honorable Mention:
“American Idol” (Fox)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Killer Women” (ABC)
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-Ratings Breakdown:
Ongoing The Winter Olympics on NBC reigned supreme, of course. But an 11.9 rating/19 share in the household overnights from 8-11 p.m. was 16 percent below the 14.2/22 one week earlier. Night two of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in late night remained on the map with a very dominant 5.3/15 in the 12 a.m. hour (which bested David Letterman and Craig Ferguson on CBS, and Jimmy Kimmel and “Nightline” on ABC combined by 104 percent). But versus the 7.1/20 on debut night Monday, this was a loss of 25 percent. The true test, of course, will come once The Winter Olympics is over and Jimmy Fallon faces David Letterman head-to-head.
On Fox, a two-hour Tuesday edition of “American Idol,” featuring the Top 15 girls performing, scored a 6.5/10 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. Comparably, that was almost triple the average 2.2/ 3 one week earlier for Fox’s combination of the one-hour season (or series) finale of “Dads,” “New Girl” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”
Elsewhere, CBS was in all repeats care of its drama combination of “NCIS” (#3: 6.3/10), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (#3: 5.0/ 8) and “Person of Interest” (#2: 4.2/ 7), which managed to beat an original episode of ABC’s failing “Killer Women” (#3: 2.4/ 4) by 75 percent. ABC featured repeats of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (#4: 2.0/ 3) and sitcoms “The Goldbergs” (#4: 1.7/ 3) and “Trophy Wife” (#4: 1.3/ 2) from 8-10 p.m. And The CW populated this third Tuesday in February with encores of “The Vampire Diaries” (#5: 0.6/ 1) and the pilot episode of “Star-Crossed” (#5: 0.8/ 1), which actually built by 60 percent from the 8:30 p.m. portion of “The Vampire Diaries” (0.5/ 1).
Looking ahead, there is every reason to believe that both “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “The Goldbergs” will return next season. But “Trophy Wife” is unlikely, while “Killer Women” is just waiting for the axe to officially swing.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data
Below-Average The Winter Olympics Still Rules; More Solid Sampling for Jimmy Fallon
Household
Rating/Share
NBC 11.9/19
Fox 6.5/10
CBS 5.2/ 8
ABC 2.0/ 3
CW 0.7/ 1
Note: The year-to-year comparisons will be excluded during the XXII Winter Olympics
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-Winners:
The Winter Olympics (NBC), “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC)
-Honorable Mention:
“American Idol” (Fox)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Killer Women” (ABC)
———-
-Ratings Breakdown:
Ongoing The Winter Olympics on NBC reigned supreme, of course. But an 11.9 rating/19 share in the household overnights from 8-11 p.m. was 16 percent below the 14.2/22 one week earlier. Night two of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in late night remained on the map with a very dominant 5.3/15 in the 12 a.m. hour (which bested David Letterman and Craig Ferguson on CBS, and Jimmy Kimmel and “Nightline” on ABC combined by 104 percent). But versus the 7.1/20 on debut night Monday, this was a loss of 25 percent. The true test, of course, will come once The Winter Olympics is over and Jimmy Fallon faces David Letterman head-to-head.
On Fox, a two-hour Tuesday edition of “American Idol,” featuring the Top 15 girls performing, scored a 6.5/10 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. Comparably, that was almost triple the average 2.2/ 3 one week earlier for Fox’s combination of the one-hour season (or series) finale of “Dads,” “New Girl” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”
Elsewhere, CBS was in all repeats care of its drama combination of “NCIS” (#3: 6.3/10), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (#3: 5.0/ 8) and “Person of Interest” (#2: 4.2/ 7), which managed to beat an original episode of ABC’s failing “Killer Women” (#3: 2.4/ 4) by 75 percent. ABC featured repeats of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (#4: 2.0/ 3) and sitcoms “The Goldbergs” (#4: 1.7/ 3) and “Trophy Wife” (#4: 1.3/ 2) from 8-10 p.m. And The CW populated this third Tuesday in February with encores of “The Vampire Diaries” (#5: 0.6/ 1) and the pilot episode of “Star-Crossed” (#5: 0.8/ 1), which actually built by 60 percent from the 8:30 p.m. portion of “The Vampire Diaries” (0.5/ 1).
Looking ahead, there is every reason to believe that both “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “The Goldbergs” will return next season. But “Trophy Wife” is unlikely, while “Killer Women” is just waiting for the axe to officially swing.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data
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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.
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