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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.9/8 | 2.3/7 | 2.3/7 | 1.9/5 | 1.1/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.9/6 | 1.8/6 | 1.6/5 | 2.2/7 | 1.2/4 | 0.2/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 11.76 | 7.42 | 7.14 | 3.95 | 2.63 | 1.10 |
Charges by Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were too little too late, but a three-way tie resulting in a sudden death playoff led to about 38 minutes of overrun for The Masters which was great theater for sports fans led CBS to victory. Kenny Perry was just two holes away from becoming the oldest person to ever win a major at 48 year old, bogeyed the final two holes and wound up in a tie with Chad Campbell and Angel Cabrera. Cabrera went on to defeat Perry on the second hole of sudden death to capture the green jacket.
As a result of the overrun, and a live sporting event, these results are even more subject to change than normal, but CBS easily won the night among adults 18-49 and total viewers.
ABC had a solid performance out of a two hour Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and NBC had decent results from Celebrity Apprentice. Earlier in the evening NBC ran with two hours of Dateline NBC, and the 8pm to 9pm portion easily fared better than Kings did last week. Kings is moving to Saturdays starting with this Saturday, April 18.
FOX ran with all reruns of its animations.
You can see overnight reports for past Sundays to compare.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 7:00 | CBS | The Masters overrun | 4.1/15 | 2.6/11 | 17.12 |
| ABC | America's Funniest Home Videos (R) | 1.6/6 | 1.3/5 | 5.49 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.1/4 | 0.8/3 | 5.47 | |
| FOX | American Dad (R) | 0.8/3 | 0.9/4 | 1.94 | |
| CW | Jericho (R) | 0.2/1 | 0.2/1 | 0.52 | |
| 7:30 | CBS | The Masters/60 Minutes | 2.6/9 | 1.6/6 | 12.26 |
| ABC | America's Funniest Home Videos (R) | 2.0/7 | 1.7/7 | 6.893 | |
| FOX | King of the Hill (R) | 1.4/5 | 1.6/6 | 2.97 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.4/5 | 1.0/4 | 5.59 | |
| CW | Jericho (R) | 0.2/1 | 0.1/1 | 0.63 | |
| 8:00 | CBS | 60 Minutes | 3.1/9 | 2.1/7 | 13.25 |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 2.3/7 | 1.8/6 | 7.59 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons (R) | 2.2/7 | 2.6/9 | 4.67 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.8/5 | 1.2/4 | 6.53 | |
| CW | Movie: Cutthroat Island (R) | 0.2/1 | 0.2/1 | 1.05 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | 60 Minutes/The Amazing Race | 2.8/8 | 2.0/6 | 10.30 |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 2.6/7 | 1.9/6 | 8.61 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 2.2/6 | 1.3/4 | 8.02 | |
| FOX | King of the Hill (R) | 2.0/6 | 2.3/7 | 4.19 | |
| CW | Movie: Cutthroat Island (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.2/1 | 1.33 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 3.0/8 | 2.2/7 | 9.90 |
| CBS | The Amazing Race 14 | 3.0/8 | 2.0/6 | 10.85 | |
| FOX | Family Guy (R) | 2.5/7 | 3.0/9 | 5.44 | |
| NBC | Celebrity Apprentice | 2.5/6 | 1.6/5 | 6.97 | |
| CW | Movie: Cutthroat Island (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.1/0 | 1.45 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 3.7/9 | 2.8/8 | 11.55 |
| NBC | Celebrity Apprentice | 2.7/7 | 1.7/5 | 7.30 | |
| CBS | The Amazing Race/Cold Case | 2.4/6 | 1.5/4 | 9.64 | |
| FOX | American Dad (R) | 2.1/5 | 2.7/8 | 4.47 | |
| CW | Movie: Cutthroat Island (R) | 0.4/1 | 0.2/1 | 1.60 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | Celebrity Apprentice | 3.3/9 | 2.3/7 | 8.64 |
| CBS | Cold Case | 2.8/7 | 1.7/5 | 11.22 | |
| ABC | Desperate Housewives (R) | 1.6/4 | 1.2/4 | 5.09 | |
| 10:30 | NBC | Celebrity Apprentice | 3.3/9 | 2.3/7 | 8.64 |
| CBS | Cold Case/The Unit | 2.5/7 | 1.5/5 | 9.46 | |
| ABC | Desperate Housewives (R) | 1.3/3 | 0.9/3 | 4.21 |
Shows are sorted by 18-49 rating in each time slot.
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I think Celebrity Apprentice was up in every half hour vs last week. I guess it helps when your lead in isn’t doing a 1.1
Dateline scored higher at 8 than every airing of Kings.
Wow, and a rerun of Family Guy was #1 for the night in 18-34
Sending Kings to Saturday night seems to have helped NBC. Sunday night TV is so boring without Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters.
…actually Sunday nite TV is sooo boring every week…
Easter Dinner and DVD movies…”The Bourne Ultimatum” was last nites feature for us!
i remember when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition used to pull of a 5.0 to 6.0 in the demos
So of the 20 new CC episodes, only 9 have started in the 9/8 slot. Ten have been pushed back by sports and 1 moved up to 8/7. If CBS cancels, they will have to move an existing show to that spot; a new show will never gain traction.
^And Housewives puled 9.0-10 so what?
Cool! The Celebrity Apprentice is doing well! I still like that show, but it will be badly hurt next week with Desperate Housewives back!
CW Sunday Nights – are they even trying any more?
NBC is not regretting pulling KINGS in favor of DATELINE. KINGS wasnt bad but it was just too bland, boring and was like a shirt with too much starch in it (as some blogger commented). At least its still on Saturday nights – for those who still care about it.
The Unit gives us some Sunday night action.
The Celebrity Apprentice is doing very well. It average 7.9 million viewers and a 3.0/8 in A-18-49. It was up from last week despite people saying it will be down because Khloe and Tionne were fired which they deserved to be. It just proves its a great show. Dateline NBC really helped the show. Next week will start off strong and build every half hour because those 8.6 million who tuned in at 10 and 10:30 will stick around since it ended with a cliffhanger and To Be Contiued. People will want to see what happens. Desperate Housewives will not affect it. It was clever of NBC to do the episode the way it was yesterday. And plus from the New York Post Trump stated that NBC is considering on doing The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice together in one season which means the show will most likely be renewed for more seasons!
do u av the ratings for the other 3days of the masters
Elliott, the only thing I’ve seen so far was for first round coverage on ESPN:
http://www.multichannel.com/article/196015-ESPN_Holes_Strong_Start_With_Masters_Coverage.php
i thought the CW Movie was Cutthroat Island….i could be completly wrong
Sam — ack. I think you’re probably right. The first source I got data from had it listed as 3 STRIKES, but the later sources have it listed as Cutthroat Island. The numbers were the same though, but I will change the labeling.
Its sad, but Kings being gone really helped NBC.
KINGS was a great concept, but in the end its just fell flat with the masses. I think it would have worked better on cable. Given time, it could have been better. These days its succeed out of the starting gate or die.
i remember this episode of The Simpsons beight the lowest rated original episode (or second) any truth to this??
i know it was a repeat but when it first aird (month back)??
17 mil at 7 o’clock? How many people are actually home at 7pm? 6:00, rather. It’s surprising cuz I always thought, like fri & sat, nobody would be home on Sundays, at least until 8pm. Is there a way the Nielsens can measure the audience at 5/6pm?