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)
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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Monday 12/15/14
NBC: 6.6/10
CBS: 6.0/ 9
ABC: 3.2/ 5
Fox: 2.2/ 3
CW: 0.9/ 1
Percent Change From the Comparable Year-ago Week
ABC and CBS: +28 each, CW: +12, NBC: – 8, Fox: -21
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-Winners:
“The Voice” (NBC), “Scorpion” (CBS), “NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
-Losers:
“State of Affairs” (NBC)
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Ratings Breakdown:
NBC opened the week on a winning overnight note, with a 7.9 rating/12 share in households for “The Voice” its top Monday performance in six weeks. But recent drama entry “State of Affairs,” which will be replaced in midseason by sophomore medical drama “The Night Shift,” slipped to a distant second at 10 p.m. with a 4.0/ 7. Comparably, retention for “State of Affairs” out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of “The Voice” (7.7/12) was only 51 percent. Nice try, Katherine Heigl, but no dice.
CBS had what you would call a consistent Monday with its combination of “2 Broke Girls” (#2: 5.8/ 8 at 8 p.m.), recent returnee “Mike & Molly” (#2: 4.9/ 7 at 8:30 p.m.), freshman drama “Scorpion” (#2: 6.7/10 at 9 p.m.) and “NCIS: Los Angeles” (#1: 6.1/11 at 10 p.m.), which has put the Eye net on the competitive Monday 10 p.m. map again. While “Mike & Molly” is an improvement from recent entry “The Millers,” it is not necessarily the powerhouse CBS was hoping.
ABC lost steam, unfortunately, care of holiday competition “The Great Christmas Night Flight,” which at a 3.4/ 5 from 8-10 p.m. was 23 percent below the 4.4/ 7 for the season-opener one week earlier. And it led into a repeat of “Castle” at a third-place 2.9/ 5.
Elsewhere, Fox could not compete with two-hour special “The American Country Awards” at a mere 2.2/ 3 from 8-10 in the overnights. And, the fourth season premiere of “Hart of Dixie” on The CW, which is moving to Friday in three weeks, opened with a modest 1.0/ 2 at 8 p.m. (#5) into a typical 0.9/ 1 at 9 p.m. (#5) for Golden Globe Award nominee “Jane the Virgin.”
Source: Nielsen Media Research
NBC: 6.6/10
CBS: 6.0/ 9
ABC: 3.2/ 5
Fox: 2.2/ 3
CW: 0.9/ 1
Percent Change From the Comparable Year-ago Week
ABC and CBS: +28 each, CW: +12, NBC: – 8, Fox: -21
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-Winners:
“The Voice” (NBC), “Scorpion” (CBS), “NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
-Losers:
“State of Affairs” (NBC)
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Ratings Breakdown:
NBC opened the week on a winning overnight note, with a 7.9 rating/12 share in households for “The Voice” its top Monday performance in six weeks. But recent drama entry “State of Affairs,” which will be replaced in midseason by sophomore medical drama “The Night Shift,” slipped to a distant second at 10 p.m. with a 4.0/ 7. Comparably, retention for “State of Affairs” out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of “The Voice” (7.7/12) was only 51 percent. Nice try, Katherine Heigl, but no dice.
CBS had what you would call a consistent Monday with its combination of “2 Broke Girls” (#2: 5.8/ 8 at 8 p.m.), recent returnee “Mike & Molly” (#2: 4.9/ 7 at 8:30 p.m.), freshman drama “Scorpion” (#2: 6.7/10 at 9 p.m.) and “NCIS: Los Angeles” (#1: 6.1/11 at 10 p.m.), which has put the Eye net on the competitive Monday 10 p.m. map again. While “Mike & Molly” is an improvement from recent entry “The Millers,” it is not necessarily the powerhouse CBS was hoping.
ABC lost steam, unfortunately, care of holiday competition “The Great Christmas Night Flight,” which at a 3.4/ 5 from 8-10 p.m. was 23 percent below the 4.4/ 7 for the season-opener one week earlier. And it led into a repeat of “Castle” at a third-place 2.9/ 5.
Elsewhere, Fox could not compete with two-hour special “The American Country Awards” at a mere 2.2/ 3 from 8-10 in the overnights. And, the fourth season premiere of “Hart of Dixie” on The CW, which is moving to Friday in three weeks, opened with a modest 1.0/ 2 at 8 p.m. (#5) into a typical 0.9/ 1 at 9 p.m. (#5) for Golden Globe Award nominee “Jane the Virgin.”
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 (We also where possible now post the 18-34 and 25-54 Demo Numbers).
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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