Ratings News - 17th December 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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NOTE: The opinions expressed here are NOT those of SpoilerTV but of the Author of this Article, Marc Berman.

Metered Market Tuesday Ratings
“The Voice” Concludes Fall Edition on a Solid Note

Tuesday 12/09/14

Note: The following overnight results do not include Phoenix.

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 8.3/13
NBC 6.4/10
ABC 2.8/ 4
Fox 2.5/ 4
CW 1.1/ 2

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 12/10/13:
Fox: +79, CW: +57, ABC: +47, NBC: -16, CBS: -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. These overnights are your first look at the ratings and a precursor to what could lie ahead. And we take into account other benchmarks including the expected demographic ratings, potential DVR usage, the critical acclaim (or lack of) and the social media presence.

-Winners:
“NCIS” (CBS), “NCIS: New Orleans” (CBS), “The Voice” (NBC)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas” (NBC)
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Ratings Breakdown:
CBS topped the Tuesday household overnights, as expected, care of its drama combination of “NCIS” (#1 for the night: 10.6 rating/17 share), spin-off “NCIS: New Orleans” (#1: 8.6/13) and “Person of Interest” (#2: 5.8/10). But NBC will own the night in adults 18-49 (and all the key young adult demos) thanks to the fall season-finale of “The Voice,” which scored an 8.1/13 from 9-11 p.m. (peaking in the 10:30 p.m. half-hour at an 8.5/15). Comparably, this was just 10 percent below the 9.0/15 in the overnights for the year-ago season-ender (which translated into 14.01 million viewers and a 4.0 rating/11 share among adults 18-49, based on the Live Plus Same Day data). The most recent spring finale of “The Voice” scored a 7.0/11 in the household overnights on May 20, 2014.

Earlier in the evening on NBC was animated holiday special “Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas” at a fourth-place 3.0/ 5 from 8-9 p.m.

The night’s other fall season-finale, “MasterChef Junior” at Fox, scored a third-place 3.7/ 6 from 8-9 p.m., which ended as a respectable replacement for failed former time period occupant “Utopia” earlier this fall. Note to Fox: you may want to order more episodes of “MasterChef Junior” in the future.

Next on Fox were encore telecasts of “New Girl” (#4: 1.4/ 2) and “The Mindy Project” (#4: 1.1/ 2) from 9-10 p.m.

Elsewhere, ABC populated the night with repeats of annual animated special “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (#2: 3.9/ 6 at 8 p.m.), animated half-hours “Disney Prep & Landing” (#3: 2.6/ 4) and “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” (#3: 2.1/ 3) from 9-10 p.m., and freshman drama “Forever” (#3: 2.2/ 4). And The CW aired encores of “The Flash” (#5: 1.3/ 2) and “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” (#5: 1.0/ 2), which debuted on corporate cousin CBS last Tuesday. ‘Tis the season for repeats!

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source:

Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

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Next, if available, we will post the Top 25 Market 18-49 Ratings to give you a rough idea of the ratings to following.

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