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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.9/12 | 4.4/11 | 3.6/9 | 2.3/6 | 1.9/5 | 0.5/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 4.0/11 | 3.7/10 | 2.6/7 | 1.7/5 | 2.1/6 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 13.745 | 12.024 | 14.902 | 6.405 | 4.573 | 1.110 |
While the blowout nature of the game certainly limited its numbers, the NCAA Mens Basketball Final was still enough to push CBS to the victory on Monday night averaging a 4.9 rating for the adults 18-49 demo. Fox was a reasonably close second for the night averaging a 4.4 rating. The rest of the English broadcast competition fared about as well as the Michigan State Spartans.
Those NCAA Tournament numbers were down from last year when the fast affiliate rating was a 6.5, but looking at the half hourly data you can see the audience bail as the game quickly got lopsided.
Only competing with an hour of basketball certainly helped Fox, House had its best rating since late February, as did 24.
Dancing with the Stars had its lowest demo rating of the spring. Following it the series premiere of Surviving Suburbia averaged a 3.2 demo rating. Not bad, but that certainly includes some Dancing overrun. It will be interesting to see the final numbers. Castle's 2.4 demo rating equaled its lowest ever. That might not be enough to survive until next season.
The news for NBC wasn't any better. Chuck and Medium both matched their original episode series low demo ratings, and Heroes established a new all-time low.
Note that due to the live sporting event these fast affiliate overnight results for CBS are approximate and subject to revision. See below for more details.
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Previous Monday overnight reports are available for comparison.
Full details:
| 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share | Viewers Live+SD (000s) | |||
| 8:00 | FOX | House | 4.7 | 13 | 4.3 | 14 | 12,349 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.8 | 11 | 2.8 | 9 | 17,508 | |
| CBS | Big Bang Theory (repeat) | 3.2 | 9 | 2.3 | 7 | 8,862 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 2.0 | 6 | 1.6 | 5 | 6,030 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 1.9 | 5 | 2.1 | 7 | 4,726 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (repeat) | 0.5 | 1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1,212 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | House | 5.2 | 13 | 4.8 | 14 | 13,679 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 4.5 | 11 | 3.3 | 9 | 19,892 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (repeat) | 3.3 | 9 | 2.5 | 7 | 8,450 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 2.1 | 5 | 1.6 | 5 | 5,994 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 2.1 | 5 | 2.3 | 7 | 5,131 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (repeat) | 0.5 | 1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1,076 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 5.2 | 12 | 3.9 | 11 | 21,374 |
| CBS | NCAA Basketball Pregame | 4.7 | 11 | 3.7 | 10 | 13,680 | |
| FOX | 24 | 3.9 | 9 | 3.0 | 8 | 11,308 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.6 | 6 | 2.5 | 7 | 5,975 | |
| UNI | Manana Es Para Siempre | 2.1 | 5 | 2.4 | 6 | 5,136 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1,030 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | NCAA Basketball Final | 6.5 | 15 | 5.2 | 14 | 18,910 |
| FOX | 24 | 3.6 | 9 | 2.7 | 7 | 10,762 | |
| ABC | Surviving Suburbia | 3.2 | 8 | 2.4 | 6 | 12,160 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.6 | 6 | 2.4 | 6 | 6,129 | |
| UNI | Manana Es Para Siempre | 2.2 | 5 | 2.5 | 7 | 5,218 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (repeat) | 0.5 | 1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1,121 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | NCAA Basketball Final | 6.3 | 15 | 5.2 | 14 | 17,506 |
| ABC | Castle | 2.5 | 6 | 1.7 | 5 | 9,594 | |
| NBC | Medium | 2.3 | 5 | 1.2 | 3 | 7,194 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 1.5 | 4 | 1.7 | 5 | 3,916 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | NCAA Basketball Final | 5.5 | 14 | 4.8 | 13 | 15,060 |
| ABC | Castle | 2.3 | 6 | 1.7 | 5 | 8,886 | |
| NBC | Medium | 2.1 | 5 | 1.1 | 3 | 7,106 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 1.3 | 3 | 1.4 | 4 | 3,307 |
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Shows are sorted by adults 18-49 rating in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
For more information see Numbers 101.
9 30 is surviving suberbia not dancing with the stars
2.0
nuts….
castle did very well without the dwts lead in
Those CW numbers have to be repeats, right?
LOL. Univision almost beat Heroes
Those ratings for Heroes are horrible.
DWTS did very well but I bet CBS will be pleased about the basketball which was scored a decent demo throughout the night. BBT and HYMYM did surprisenly well for repeats.
House is a solid hit for FOX and I predict that they will keep until Hugh Laurie decides he’s had enough. The CW need to sort out their schedules as the repeats aren’t working.
Robert or Bill, is there a problem with the site as I was unable to access it for a while.
I’m surprised Castle held up so well. I was expecting it to drop like a ton of bricks, but instead the 10:30 half hour is actually up 0.2 from last week, and it only dropped 0.1 overall.
Can’t wait to see Surviving Suburbia’s finals. While this is far better than the rest of ABC’s new comedies, I don’t think this was the multi-cam saving show that some people were expecting.
And, wow, Heroes. 2.6 was the number I guessed this season would bottom out at. But is this really the bottom yet?
yes, the CW shows WERE repeats.
So Chuck will get revised up to about 6.05M viewers, and a 2.1/6 share.
Not great, but holding steady.
Chuck was awesome last night.
2.0?
SAVE CHUCK.
Or…or-
I swear, I’ll -
- cry about it?
It’s not much of a threat, but I won’t be alone in my weeping.
Castle did a 2.4 in the demo… that good enough so it’ll stick around? Please let it be so.
Cue Alex showing up and making his mandatory 25 Anti Chuck posts.
At this point I hope the show is renewed just to spite that guy.
Ouch!#! Heroes under 3.0 in both demos. Chuck’s numbers stayed steady although it’s still horrible. At least, Medium numbers weren’t any better.
I don’t watch House but am a little happy that it beat DWTS in the demos. Stupid reality tv.
My thoughts exactly, Mike. Not great, but holding steady.
Chuck was already a 2.1 in the overnights for the hour — it’s just some rounding issues with us not seeing half hourly ratings out to the hundredths of a ratings point.
At least Chuck maintained and didn’t drop (if the demo averages out at 2.1 as reported by James Hibberd) it will be interesting to see how it does in finals.
I noticed that this site was down for while, what was going on there? … conspiracy methinks LOL
Gusar, if Castle can actually hold 2.4, I think ABC will order 13 episodes for the new season. At least if The Unusuals tanks. But if it drops to 2.3 next week, I’m ready to call it dead.
Did the NCAA game air earlier in some states?
Yes, Leah, last nite’s Chuck was amazing. I’m expecting an Emmy for Zac Levi.