Ratings News - 25th September 2014

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 Ratings Database. (See the About section below for details about 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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Wednesday 9/24/14

What follows are the metered market (overnight) results for Wednesday, Sept. 24:

NBC: 6.2 rating/10 share
ABC: 5.6/ 9
CBS: 5.0/ 8
Fox: 2.7/ 4
CW: 1.1/ 2

Percent Change From Year-Ago Week
CW: +57, NBC: +11, ABC: – 8, CBS: -22, Fox: -51

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-Winners:
The Mysteries of Laura (NBC), Survivor (CBS), Modern Family ABC), Black-ish (ABC), Law & Order: SVU (NBC)

-Losers:
Red Band Society (Fox), Nashville (ABC)

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8:00 p.m.

ABC – The Middle: 5.4 rating/9 share (#3) – season premiere (-13% from last fall’s season opener: 6.2/11)
CBS – Survivor: 5.8/ 9 (#2) – season premiere (-5% from last fall’s season opener: 6.2/10)
NBC – The Mysteries of Laura: 6.6/11 (#1) – time period premiere
Fox – Hell’s Kitchen: 2.7/ 5 (#4)
CW – Penn & Teller: Fool Us: 1.3/ 2 (#5) – season finale

8:30 p.m.

ABC – The Goldbergs: 4.9/ 8 (#3) – season premiere (-9% from year-ago occupant Back in the Game – 5.4/ 9)
CBS – Survivor: 5.8/10 (#2) – season premiere
NBC – The Mysteries of Laura: 6.7/11 (#1) – time period premiere
Fox – Hell’s Kitchen: 2.7/ 4 (#4)
CW – Penn & Teller: Fool Us: 1.3/ 2 (#5) – season finale

9:00 p.m.

ABC – Modern Family: 7.6/12 (#1) – season premiere (-5% from one-hour year-ago season opener: 8.0/13)
CBS – Survivor: 5.6/ 9 (#3) – season premiere
NBC – Law & Order: SVU: 6.6/11 (#2) – season premiere (+6 percent from year-ago season opener: 6.2/11)
Fox – Red Band Society: 2.6/ 4 (#4) – down 13 percent from week-ago opener (3.0/ 5)
CW – Penn & Teller: Fool Us R: 1.0/ 2 (#5)

9:30 p.m.

ABC – Black-ish: 7.6/12 (#1) – series premiere (up by double-digits over failed fall 2013 occupant Super Fun Night)
CBS – Big Brother: 4.4/ 7 (#3) – season finale
NBC – Law & Order: SVU: 6.7/11 (#2) – season premiere
Fox – Red Band Society: 2.6/ 4 (#4)
CW – Penn & Teller: Fool Us R: 1.0/ 2 (#5)

10:00 p.m.

ABC – Nashville: 4.1/ 7 (#3) – season premiere (-7 percent from last fall’s season opener: 4.4/ 8)
CBS – Big Brother: 4.3/ 7 (#2) – season finale
NBC – Chicago PD: 5.4/ 9 (#1) – season premiere

10:30 p.m.

ABC – Nashville: 3.7/ 7 (#3) – season premiere
CBS – Big Brother: 4.3/ 8 (#2) – season finale
NBC – Chicago PD: 5.1/ 9 (#1) – season premiere

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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