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.
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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.0/11 | 3.3/9 | 3.0/8 | 2.4/7 | 1.4/4 | 0.8/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 3.7/11 | 2.8/8 | 1.8/5 | 2.6/8 | 1.5/5 | 0.8/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 11.488 | 10.343 | 11.405 | 5.878 | 3.545 | 2.079 |
With CBS (mostly) and the CW in repeats, ABC held steady and widened its margin of victory on Thursday night.
ABC was flat overall from last Thursday and its individual show ratings varied little to continue its trend of winning on Thursday's this season.
Fox is getting a lot better luck with the ALCS this season than they did with the NLCS last season. From 8-11p, ALCS Game 5 (Yankees v. Angels) delivered a 3.3/8 among Adults 18-49. The final ratings this afternoon are expected to make this the highest rating game of the series. It's well ahead of last year's NLCS Game 5 on FOX (Phillies v. Dodgers, Wednesday 10/15/08) by +27% among Adults 18-49 (3.3/9 vs. 2.6/7). The best news for Fox is that the Angels won, pushing the series to at least 6 games.
While the rest of the CBS line up was in repeats, Survivor: Samoa's ratings hit season highs across the board, up 14% in the adults 18-49 demo from last week.
Overall, NBC was steady on the night vs. last Thursday as well, with Parks & Recreation, The Office and 30 Rock each up a bit in the adults 18-49 ratings, and Community and The Jay Leno Show down.
The CW was entirely in repeats.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Thursday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.9/4 in 18-49 in local people meters, encore) tied 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. 0.5/3).
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters, encore) tied CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.5/4, encore). Jimmy also tied Ferguson in 18-34 (0.4/3 vs. 0.4/2).
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millions) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Survivor: Samoa | 3.7 | 11 | 12.161 |
| FOX | Baseball ALCS, Yankees v. Angels | 3.3 | 10 | 11.077 | |
| ABC | FlashForward | 3.0 | 9 | 9.730 | |
| NBC | Community | 1.9 | 6 | 5.184 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 2.421 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Survivor: Samoa | 4.3 | 12 | 13.597 |
| ABC | FlashForward | 3.1 | 9 | 9.904 | |
| FOX | Baseball ALCS, Yankees v. Angels | 2.9 | 8 | 9.500 | |
| NBC | Parks & Recreation | 2.1 | 6 | 4.981 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (repeat) | 0.9 | 2 | 2.195 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 4.9 | 13 | 13.935 |
| NBC | The Office | 4.2 | 11 | 8.517 | |
| FOX | Baseball ALCS, Yankees v. Angels | 2.8 | 7 | 9.355 | |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 2.2 | 6 | 10.271 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.8 | 2 | 1.943 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 5.6 | 14 | 15.402 |
| NBC | 30 Rock | 3.2 | 8 | 6.684 | |
| FOX | Baseball ALCS, Yankees v. Angels | 3.0 | 8 | 9.791 | |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 2.1 | 5 | 9.733 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.8 | 2 | 1.756 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | Private Practice | 3.9 | 10 | 10.512 |
| FOX | Baseball ALCS, Yankees v. Angels | 3.7 | 10 | 11.135 | |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 2.8 | 7 | 11.537 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.8 | 5 | 5.352 | |
| 10:30 | FOX | Baseball ALCS, Yankees v. Angels | 3.9 | 11 | 11.200 |
| ABC | Private Practice | 3.4 | 10 | 9.443 | |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 2.7 | 8 | 11.132 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.5 | 4 | 4.552 |
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Ouch, those are depressing numbers for Community. Is it time to start a Save Community push?
Wow! This incredible fot The Mentalist especially this week was a repeat also Vampire Diaries and Supernatural the out performes for original episodes od Melrose Place.
Good for FlashFoward
The mentalist did well in a rerun, otherwise same ol same ol
A repeat of SUPERNATURAL did better than a new episode of Melrose Shit. Haha. Dawn needs to be fired.
FlashForward increase on the half hour so that’s a good sign. But Survivor is back at 4.0, amazing!
30 Rock is also up from last week
Mentalist repeat beat CSI repeat!
And Grey’s climbed to 5.6 on the half hour!
The most telling numbers of the night is how The Mentalist and Vampire Diaries did in repeats especially The Mentalist which beat CSI and a new episode of Private Practice. I think next time they go into repeats, perhaps putting The Mentalist at 9pm would be a good test.
30 Rock went up from its premiere, right? A rarity for any show in today’s broadcast world.
That is a really big demo increase for Grey’s Anatomy at the half hour. The CSI repeat must have really helped it. Also, it really does seem that Parks and Recreation is helped by the Community lead in (despite that show not getting big ratings), because I think it was down to a 1.7-1.8 in the demo for a little bit?
That’s bad news for Community, it was such a great episode too. How is Parks & Recreation getting a 2.1 while Community is only getting 1.9? That’s what is amazing. Even though I like Parks, Community I feel is stronger and has much more potential.
nice repeats for VD considering they were repeating episode 2, Flash Forward i knew it would keep falling every week.
I agree, it’s pretty amazing that VD and Supernatural do as well in repeats as some shows on CW show on regular nights.
PP lost 5 M viewers. Ouch.
Gob, Parks and Rec dropped to 1.8 once, which was the only time it went below 2.0. But Community is certainly looking better than SNL. I think both will stick around this season, and while I enjoy both (more than The Office these days, despite Ryan’s fedora), should be disposed of during what will hopefully be an overhaul at NBC.
I can’t believe Grey’s Anatomy has become abc’s number 1 show. How can it overtake Desperate Housewives. I’m sad!
CW should throw VD repeats on wednesdays instead of Melrose repeats ( that show is going down they just fired two main characters including ashley simpson)
The CW should put repeats of Vampire Diaries on Wednesdays and Supernatural on Fridays after Smallville.
OMG those Survivor ratings are amazing compared to what it delivered at the beginning of the season.
Considering this was probably the single worst episode ever in the show’s history, these numbers are even better.
Sarah – what are you talking about ? PP didn’t lose 5m viewers. It is currently ABC’s third highest show in the demo (after DH and GA). It’s hovered around 9-11m all season.
I think FlashForward did good it was up against baseball and what seems to be a heavily-promoted Survivor episode and they still manage to get 3.0.I think the show will stabilized on the 3.0-3.2 range.
Great to see 30 Rock climb to 3.2 from 3.0 last week
Flash Forward is up VS last week in viewers