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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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.
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Sunday 3/02/14 Metered Markets
Note: The following results exclude the Memphis market.
Household
Rating/Share
ABC 22.6/34
CBS 3.7/ 6
NBC 2.6/ 4
Fox 1.5/ 2
-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Oscar Night – Sunday 2/24/13:
NBC: +30, ABC: + 4, CBS: – 3, Fox: -17
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-Winners:
“Oscar’s Red Carpet Special” (ABC), The 86th Annual “Academy Awards” (ABC)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
Nothing…only “The Amazing Race” on CBS was an original.
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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was all about ABC, of course, with the 86th Annual “Academy Awards” at a whopping 27.9 rating/41 share in the household overnights from 8:30-11:30 p.m. ET (results for the 11:30 p.m. half-hour were not available at press time). The peak half-hour was a 28.7/44 at 10:30 p.m. Comparably, this was a slight improvement over the 27.0/40 for the year-ago telecast (on Sunday 2/24/13), and that translated into 40.38 million viewers and a 13.0 rating/31 share among adults 18-49 (based on the live plus same day data, which was a three year high). Don’t forget to visit our website at http://www.tvmediainsights.com for the fast affiliate results by noon.
Earlier in the evening on ABC was the annual “Oscars Red Carpet Live!” special at a 10.5/17 from 7-8:30 p.m. ET. For a complete listing of the winners, click on the following: http://tinyurl.com/o24nu36
Elsewhere, CBS managed to get some mileage from 7-9 p.m. with its pairing of a repeat of “60 Minutes” (#2: 6.6/10) and episode two of the new season of “The Amazing Race” (#2: 4.0/ 6). But encores of “The Mentalist” (2.4/ 3) and “The Good Wife” (2.0/ 3) slipped to third from 9-11 p.m. NBC aired two-hour repeat installments of “Dateline” (#3: 3.0/ 4) and “The Voice” (#2t, 2.4/ 3) from 7-11 p.m. And Fox finished fourth in each of its six half-hours care of encores of animated “Bob’s Burgers” (1.3/ 2), “American Dad” (1.2/ 2), “The Simpsons” (1.7/ 2), the regularly scheduled airing of “Bob’s Burgers” (1.4/ 2), “Family Guy” (1.7/ 2) and the regularly scheduled airing of “American Dad” (1.6/ 2).
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Note: The following results exclude the Memphis market.
Household
Rating/Share
ABC 22.6/34
CBS 3.7/ 6
NBC 2.6/ 4
Fox 1.5/ 2
-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Oscar Night – Sunday 2/24/13:
NBC: +30, ABC: + 4, CBS: – 3, Fox: -17
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-Winners:
“Oscar’s Red Carpet Special” (ABC), The 86th Annual “Academy Awards” (ABC)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
Nothing…only “The Amazing Race” on CBS was an original.
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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was all about ABC, of course, with the 86th Annual “Academy Awards” at a whopping 27.9 rating/41 share in the household overnights from 8:30-11:30 p.m. ET (results for the 11:30 p.m. half-hour were not available at press time). The peak half-hour was a 28.7/44 at 10:30 p.m. Comparably, this was a slight improvement over the 27.0/40 for the year-ago telecast (on Sunday 2/24/13), and that translated into 40.38 million viewers and a 13.0 rating/31 share among adults 18-49 (based on the live plus same day data, which was a three year high). Don’t forget to visit our website at http://www.tvmediainsights.com for the fast affiliate results by noon.
Earlier in the evening on ABC was the annual “Oscars Red Carpet Live!” special at a 10.5/17 from 7-8:30 p.m. ET. For a complete listing of the winners, click on the following: http://tinyurl.com/o24nu36
Elsewhere, CBS managed to get some mileage from 7-9 p.m. with its pairing of a repeat of “60 Minutes” (#2: 6.6/10) and episode two of the new season of “The Amazing Race” (#2: 4.0/ 6). But encores of “The Mentalist” (2.4/ 3) and “The Good Wife” (2.0/ 3) slipped to third from 9-11 p.m. NBC aired two-hour repeat installments of “Dateline” (#3: 3.0/ 4) and “The Voice” (#2t, 2.4/ 3) from 7-11 p.m. And Fox finished fourth in each of its six half-hours care of encores of animated “Bob’s Burgers” (1.3/ 2), “American Dad” (1.2/ 2), “The Simpsons” (1.7/ 2), the regularly scheduled airing of “Bob’s Burgers” (1.4/ 2), “Family Guy” (1.7/ 2) and the regularly scheduled airing of “American Dad” (1.6/ 2).
Source: Nielsen Media Research
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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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