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Wednesday 5/14/14 Metered Market Ratings
Clean Sweep for CBS
Household
Rating/Share
CBS 6.3/10
Fox 6.0/10
ABC 4.2/ 7
NBC 3.5/ 6
CW 1.6/ 3
-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Wednesday 5/15/13:
CBS: +17, ABC: – 9, CW: -11, Fox: -12, NBC: -26
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-Winners:
“Survivor” (CBS), “Modern Family” (ABC), “Criminal Minds” (CBS)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Revolution” (NBC), “Suburgatory” (ABC), “Mixology” (ABC)
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Ratings Breakdown:
CBS got over the Wednesday “hump” in winning overnight fashion, with a 0.3 household rating point advantage over second-place Fox. “Survivor” topped the 8 p.m. hour with a 6.1 rating/10 share, followed by the season-finale of “Criminal Minds” (#1: 7.6/12) and an encore of “CSI” (#1: 5.3/ 9) from 9-11 p.m. Next season, “CSI” moves to Sunday at 10 p.m. (out of “The Good Wife”), where it will share the time period with new spin-off “CSI: Cyber.” Filling the time period will be new drama “Stalker,” which looked addictively intense based on the clips at the Eye net’s presentation yesterday.
On Fox, the 500th episode of “American Idol” perked up to a 6.0/10 from 8-10 p.m., which was seven percent above the 5.6/ 9 one week earlier. But “Idol” was still down by a hefty 29 percent from the 8.4/14 in the 8 p.m. hour on the year-ago evening. Once the dominant factor on Fox’s line-up, the network barely even mentioned it at its upfront presentation earlier this week.
On ABC, part one of the two-part season-finale of “Modern Family” was the standout, of course, with a 6.5/10 at 9 p.m. Comparably, that built from the series-finale of lead-in “Suburgatory” (#3: 3.7/ 6 at 8:30 p.m.) by 76 percent. Next was lead-out “Mixology,” which earned its cancellation stripes, with a fourth-place 2.8/ 4 at 9:30 p.m. “Nashville” concluded its sophomore season at a typically uneventful 3.6/ 6 (#3) at 10 p.m., and “The Middle” opened the night with a third-place 5.0/ 8 at 8 p.m. Next season, ABC will feature relocated “The Goldbergs” out of “The Middle” and new sitcom “Black-ish” out of “Modern Family.”
Elsewhere, canceled “Revolution” on NBC earned its pink slip, with a fourth-place 2.8/ 5 from 8-9 p.m. And it led into typical overnights for veteran “Law & Order: SVU” (#4: 3/.7/ 6) and freshman “Chicago PD” (#2: 4.0/ 7) from 9-11 p.m., which will both remain intact next season (out of new drama “The Mysteries of Laura”). Unless “The Mysteries of Laura” ignites interest in the 8 p.m. hour, which is highly unlikely, there is no reason to believe NBC will improve on Wednesday next fall.
The CW, meanwhile, featured the season-finale of “Arrow” (#5: 1.9/ 5), which was on par from one year earlier, followed by “The 100” (#5: 1.3/ 2). Both dramas will remain intact on the night next season.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data
Clean Sweep for CBS
Household
Rating/Share
CBS 6.3/10
Fox 6.0/10
ABC 4.2/ 7
NBC 3.5/ 6
CW 1.6/ 3
-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Wednesday 5/15/13:
CBS: +17, ABC: – 9, CW: -11, Fox: -12, NBC: -26
———-
-Winners:
“Survivor” (CBS), “Modern Family” (ABC), “Criminal Minds” (CBS)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Revolution” (NBC), “Suburgatory” (ABC), “Mixology” (ABC)
———-
Ratings Breakdown:
CBS got over the Wednesday “hump” in winning overnight fashion, with a 0.3 household rating point advantage over second-place Fox. “Survivor” topped the 8 p.m. hour with a 6.1 rating/10 share, followed by the season-finale of “Criminal Minds” (#1: 7.6/12) and an encore of “CSI” (#1: 5.3/ 9) from 9-11 p.m. Next season, “CSI” moves to Sunday at 10 p.m. (out of “The Good Wife”), where it will share the time period with new spin-off “CSI: Cyber.” Filling the time period will be new drama “Stalker,” which looked addictively intense based on the clips at the Eye net’s presentation yesterday.
On Fox, the 500th episode of “American Idol” perked up to a 6.0/10 from 8-10 p.m., which was seven percent above the 5.6/ 9 one week earlier. But “Idol” was still down by a hefty 29 percent from the 8.4/14 in the 8 p.m. hour on the year-ago evening. Once the dominant factor on Fox’s line-up, the network barely even mentioned it at its upfront presentation earlier this week.
On ABC, part one of the two-part season-finale of “Modern Family” was the standout, of course, with a 6.5/10 at 9 p.m. Comparably, that built from the series-finale of lead-in “Suburgatory” (#3: 3.7/ 6 at 8:30 p.m.) by 76 percent. Next was lead-out “Mixology,” which earned its cancellation stripes, with a fourth-place 2.8/ 4 at 9:30 p.m. “Nashville” concluded its sophomore season at a typically uneventful 3.6/ 6 (#3) at 10 p.m., and “The Middle” opened the night with a third-place 5.0/ 8 at 8 p.m. Next season, ABC will feature relocated “The Goldbergs” out of “The Middle” and new sitcom “Black-ish” out of “Modern Family.”
Elsewhere, canceled “Revolution” on NBC earned its pink slip, with a fourth-place 2.8/ 5 from 8-9 p.m. And it led into typical overnights for veteran “Law & Order: SVU” (#4: 3/.7/ 6) and freshman “Chicago PD” (#2: 4.0/ 7) from 9-11 p.m., which will both remain intact next season (out of new drama “The Mysteries of Laura”). Unless “The Mysteries of Laura” ignites interest in the 8 p.m. hour, which is highly unlikely, there is no reason to believe NBC will improve on Wednesday next fall.
The CW, meanwhile, featured the season-finale of “Arrow” (#5: 1.9/ 5), which was on par from one year earlier, followed by “The 100” (#5: 1.3/ 2). Both dramas will remain intact on the night next season.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data
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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.
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). Friday's Final Adjusted Ratings are normally available on the following Monday.
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