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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Metered Market Thursday Ratings
Clean Sweep for CBS
Thursday 12/18/14
Metered Market Results
Household
Rating/Share
CBS 5.4/ 9
NBC 2.8/ 5
Fox 2.4/ 4
ABC 2.2/ 4
CW 1.2/ 2
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-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Thursday 2/19/13:
CW: +17, CBS: +20, NBC: -12, Fox: -44, ABC: -46
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Note: The following labels are based on the household overnights and are subject to change given the availability of other pending data streams. These overnights are your first look at the ratings and a precursor to what could lie ahead. And we take into account additional benchmarks including the expected Live + Same Day demographic ratings, potential DVR usage, the critical acclaim (or lack of) and the social media presence.
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-Winners:
“The Big Bang Theory” R (CBS), “Mom” (CBS), “Two and a Half Men” (CBS)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
“The Taste” (ABC), The iHeartradio Jingle Ball 2014” (CW)
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Ratings Breakdown:
It was an easy overnight Thursday household victory for CBS, which featured an encore telecast of “The Big Bang Theory” (#1 for the night: 6.7 rating/11 share at 8 p.m.) into original installments of “Mom” (6.2/10), soon-to-conclude “Two and a Half Men” (5.5/ 9), “The McCarthys” (4.4/ 7) and “Elementary” (4.9/ 9) from 8:30-11 p.m. All five shows on CBS led their time periods, and the overnight retention of 93 percent for “Mom” out of the “Big Bang Theory” repeat, in particular, is very promising.
In the specials department, “The People Magazine Awards” on NBC scored a modest 2.9/ 5 from 9-11 p.m., which was still a slight improvement over NBC’s regularly scheduled Thursday night programming rotation and up by seven percent from lead-in “The Biggest Loser” (#2: 2.6/ 4 from 8-9 p.m.). And holiday-themed “The iHeartradio Jingle Ball 2014” on The CW averaged a weak 1.3/ 2 from 8-9:30 p.m. into a repeat of “Whose Line is it Anyway” at 9:30 p.m. (#5: 0.8/ 1).
On ABC, two more hours of time period filler “The Taste” did not impress at a 2.4/ 4 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. And it led into a repeat of “How To Get Away With Murder” at a third-place 1.8/ 3 at 10 p.m. Fox closed the night with back-to-back repeats of “Bones” at an average 2.4/ 4 from 8-10 p.m.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Clean Sweep for CBS
Thursday 12/18/14
Metered Market Results
Household
Rating/Share
CBS 5.4/ 9
NBC 2.8/ 5
Fox 2.4/ 4
ABC 2.2/ 4
CW 1.2/ 2
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-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Thursday 2/19/13:
CW: +17, CBS: +20, NBC: -12, Fox: -44, ABC: -46
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Note: The following labels are based on the household overnights and are subject to change given the availability of other pending data streams. These overnights are your first look at the ratings and a precursor to what could lie ahead. And we take into account additional benchmarks including the expected Live + Same Day demographic ratings, potential DVR usage, the critical acclaim (or lack of) and the social media presence.
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-Winners:
“The Big Bang Theory” R (CBS), “Mom” (CBS), “Two and a Half Men” (CBS)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
“The Taste” (ABC), The iHeartradio Jingle Ball 2014” (CW)
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Ratings Breakdown:
It was an easy overnight Thursday household victory for CBS, which featured an encore telecast of “The Big Bang Theory” (#1 for the night: 6.7 rating/11 share at 8 p.m.) into original installments of “Mom” (6.2/10), soon-to-conclude “Two and a Half Men” (5.5/ 9), “The McCarthys” (4.4/ 7) and “Elementary” (4.9/ 9) from 8:30-11 p.m. All five shows on CBS led their time periods, and the overnight retention of 93 percent for “Mom” out of the “Big Bang Theory” repeat, in particular, is very promising.
In the specials department, “The People Magazine Awards” on NBC scored a modest 2.9/ 5 from 9-11 p.m., which was still a slight improvement over NBC’s regularly scheduled Thursday night programming rotation and up by seven percent from lead-in “The Biggest Loser” (#2: 2.6/ 4 from 8-9 p.m.). And holiday-themed “The iHeartradio Jingle Ball 2014” on The CW averaged a weak 1.3/ 2 from 8-9:30 p.m. into a repeat of “Whose Line is it Anyway” at 9:30 p.m. (#5: 0.8/ 1).
On ABC, two more hours of time period filler “The Taste” did not impress at a 2.4/ 4 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. And it led into a repeat of “How To Get Away With Murder” at a third-place 1.8/ 3 at 10 p.m. Fox closed the night with back-to-back repeats of “Bones” at an average 2.4/ 4 from 8-10 p.m.
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).
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