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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 4.0/10 | 3.8/10 | 3.2/8 | 1.9/5 | 1.3/3 | 1.0/3 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 3.1/9 | 3.6/10 | 2.0/6 | 1.7/5 | 1.4/4 | 1.4/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 11.60 | 10.55 | 14.30 | 5.31 | 3.45 | 2.11 |
Due to the nature of live sports programming the ratings for FOX's coverage of the MLB ALCS (Yankees vs. Angels) are approximate and subject to significant revisions in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings. Additionally, the ALCS went into extra innings and delayed the start of House by approximately 43 minutes in the Eastern and Central time zones.
It was a night of split leadership with CBS winning with adults 18-49, FOX winning with adults 18-34 and ABC winning with total viewers.
Aside from FOX's numbers being a particular mess due to overrun of game 3 of the ALCS between the Yankees and the Angels that went into extra innings, this week looked a lot like last week. The Big Bang Theory was up a few ticks from last week to a 5.1 adults 18-49 rating, though last week it went from a 4.8 in the preliminaries to a 5.0 in the finals, so we'll have to wait to see how much real change there was. But either way, it was the night's top program with adults 18-49.
CBS newcomer Accidentally on Purpose was also up .4 versus last week to a 3.4 rating. Please note; ESPN's coverage of the Broncos @ Chargers game aired on the CBS affiliate in San Diego from 8:00-9:00 PM. CBS ratings are tentative and subject to change.
Heroes was up a tick to a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating, but Trauma was still a 1.8. Castle was flat versus last week and you can look for it to go down a tick or so in the finals due to Dancing with the Stars overrun.
Over on the CW, Gossip Girl dropped below 2 million average viewers and hit season lows with adults 18-49.
The Jay Leno Show's 1.4 adults 18-49 rating was its lowest rating for a Monday night show so far.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Monday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.8/3 in 18-49 in local people meters, encore) trailed CBS's LATE SHOW (0.9/4, encore) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters. Conan topped LATE SHOW in adults 18-34 (0.7/3 vs. 0.4/2).
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters, encore) trailed CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.6/4, encore). Jimmy beat Ferguson in 18-34 (0.5/3 vs. 0.3/2).
Full details:All the detail below for FOX is half hourly...
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | ALCS Overrun | 4.8/13 | 14.00 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 3.5/10 | 8.76 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.3/9 | 15.98 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.5/7 | 5.67 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.1/3 | 2.29 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | ALCS Overrun/House | 4.2/11 | 11.24 |
| CBS | Accidentally on Purpose | 3.4/9 | 8.62 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men | 4.7/12 | 13.83 |
| FOX | House | 4.1/10 | 10.17 | |
| ABC | Dancing With the Stars | 3.8/9 | 17.04 | |
| NBC | Trauma | 1.8/4 | 5.52 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.0/2 | 1.93 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 5.1/12 | 13.12 |
| FOX | House/Lie To Me | 3.5/8 | 9.33 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 3.8/10 | 12.65 |
| FOX | Lie To Me | 2.6/7 | 7.45 | |
| ABC | Castle | 2.4/6 | 9.88 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.4/4 | 4.74 | |
| 10:30 | FOX | Lie To Me/Various | 1.9/5 | 5.26 |
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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.
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Good for heroes! This is the first time it’s gone up in a long time. I think season 3 episode 14 was teh last time.
It’s just a tick, but it’s still promising.
It’s kind of hard to read into House and Lie to Me’s numbers too much since baseball made their airing into a big mess.
No surprises this week.
wow, at 10:00 lie to me was almost as low as Heroes, it’s hurting considering its lead-in.
Wow at The Big Bang Theory! I hope they could take over 2.5 Men too in total viewers soon
Yay also to HIMYM with 3.5! And AoP is up to 3.4,wow full season pick up anytime soon I guess
Yeah, I think baseball made House and Lie To Me such a mess that even with final numbers you won’t be able to make much of it due to the weird start times.
House was down quite a bit, but I bet a lot of House’s regular viewers turned on Fox, saw the baseball and thought baseball was going to be on all night. Also, I’m sure the same-day DVR viewing was off for those who thought they were recording House but got 40 minutes of baseball instead.
@Mumbo, true especially since Fox doesn’t usually have nationwide programming after 10.
CW did a lot of promotion for Gossip Girl and it went below 2 million? Not looking good for Dawn.
All this overun nonsense is getting annoying. Sunday with CBS and Monday with FOX. Its annoying! And it caused House to drop a lot! GOOD! I hate FOX anyway.
I watched Heroes, 2 1/2 Men, TBBT, & CSI: Miami During this Fall on Mondays. Any other show is bull crap, unless any one can give an reason why?
I think we can pretty much ignore Fox’s numbers this week, even in the finals its going to be hard to give any serious weight to them because of the relative time difference to the normal schedule.
Elsewhere reading the words, Heroes and up in the same sentence feels weird. I’d be interested in the half hour data for this weeks episode. Trauma is dead, NBC needs to get it off the schedule regardless of what they have to replace it with. The CW had a bad night. CBS had a great night, Big Bang is huge and watching the battle between it and House for top show of the night should be fun.
Castle holding steady isn’t bad news but it isn’t good news either.
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Jay is now below the lowest level that NBC guaranteed to advertisers.
Cheers to TBBT (5.1 wow!) and HIMYM.
AoP is also up to 3.4 and closing in with HIMYM’s numbers so I guess a full season renewal is likely
johnthemon
house was also down by a few million and was much lower in the demos fox was messed up because of the baseball.
big bang theory was definately an amazing episode and the demos were amazing too. is there any 18-34 numbers for last night?
The 3.4 for Accidentally on Purpose is surprising for me. Last week it was at a 3.0 (HIMYM is flat).
Looks like the overrun was more of a benefit to CBS than FOX with HIMYM and AOP up and TBBT starting to retain more of TAAHM’s audience. CSI Miami was dented by Lie to Me but still a strong performer.
Well, Gossip Girl has had 2 entirely pointless and annoying episodes in a row…
CBS looks weird. Why is How I Met even when Accidentally is up almost half a point?
Fox’s #’s will change, but it’s a bit weird that playoffs actually slightly lowered their demos.
Miami sub-4? Hmm.
Heroes is getting the same numbers Chuck was last year.
Is Trauma dead?
Seriously, Trauma’s demo number about knocks the wind out of me. 1.8? Your exit was well played, Silverman. Kudos.