Ratings News - 17th March 2015

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  Last Week's Final Adjusted Ratings
  
  
  
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  Early Ratings Analysis by Marc Berman (TVMediaInsights)
  
  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)
  
  

  NOTE: The opinions expressed here are NOT those of SpoilerTV but of the Author of this Article, Marc Berman.

  
  Monday 3/16/15 Metered Markets
  Solid Return for Dependable “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC
  
  Household
  Rating/Share
  ABC 8.5/14
  NBC 6.6/11
  CBS 4.5/ 7
  Fox 2.0/ 3
  CW 0.9/ 1
  
  -Percent Change from the Year-Ago Oscar Evening – Sunday 3/17/14:
  CW: +12, CBS: – 4, ABC: – 7, NBC: -14, Fox: -17
  
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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. The overnights are your first look at what to potentially expect when the other results come in. And we always take into account other benchmarks including the expected demographic ratings, potential DVR usage, the critical acclaim (or lack of) and the social media presence. Keep in mind, as always, that results for any live sporting event are always approximate.
  
  -Winners:
  “Dancing With the Stars” (ABC), “The Voice” (NBC)
  
  -Losers (excluding repeats):
  “The Originals” (CW), “The Following” (Fox), “Jane the Virgin” (CW), “The Night Shift” (NBC)
  
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  Ratings Breakdown:
  The spring edition of “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC remains a healthy — and dominant — option in the household overnights, with a 9.8 rating/15 share from 8-10 p.m. Comparably, this was a minor two percent above the 9.5/15 for the fall season-opener on Sept. 16, 2014 (which translated into 13.64 million viewers and a 2.4 rating/7 share in adults 18-49, based on the Live Plus Same Day data). And it was just five percent below the 10.3/16 for the spring season-premiere one year earlier (on 3/17/14). In other words, “Dancing With the Stars” remains a successful component on the ABC line-up. Go Rumer Willis and Robert Herjavec!
  
  Competing “The Voice” on NBC finished second with an 8.1/13 from 8-10 p.m., which was seven percent below the 8.7/13 one week earlier. But “The Voice” will have no trouble holding a significant advantage in all the key young adult demos.
  
  “Castle” on ABC at 10 p.m. scored a 6.0/11, which held 62 percent of the 9:30 p.m. portion of “Dancing With the Stars.” But NBC’s competing “The Night Shift” finished third in the hour with a 3.6/ 6, which held only 42 percent of the 9:30 p.m. portion of “The Voice” (8.6/13) and trailed a repeat of “NCIS: Los Angeles” on CBS (4.2/ 7) by 14 percent. If NBC leaves “The Blacklist” on Thursday next season, a priority for the network must be finding something suitable out of “The Voice” on Monday.
  
  CBS, meanwhile, was on the map from 8-9 p.m. care of a repeat of “The Big Bang Theory” (#3: 5.2/ 8) and compatible “Mike & Molly” (#2: 5.3/ 8). Next was a repeat of freshman hit “Scorpion” (#3: 4.0/ 6) from 9-10 p.m., followed by aforementioned “NCIS: Los Angeles” (#2: 4.2/ 7).
  
  Elsewhere, a repeat of Fox’s “Gotham” (#4: 1.7/ 3 at 8 p.m.) led into a series-low 2.4/ 4 for “The Following” at 9 p.m., which was eight percent below the 2.6/ 4 one week earlier and 25 percent below the 3.2/ 5 on the year-ago evening. And lowly The CW was flat from one week earlier with its pairing of “The Originals” (#5: 1.0/ 2) and “Jane the Virgin” (#5: 0.9/ 1), which remains the network series at present most worthy of a larger audience.
  
  Source: Nielsen Media Research
  
  

  Source:

  Marc Berman@tvmediainsights
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