With nearly a full line up of new episodes and 3 hours of Survivor: Samoa including the finale, CBS rode high for the week, topping the adults 18-49 and 25-54 demo groups as well as average viewership. Fox continued to win the adults 18-34 demo group, as they have for most of the season.
ABC with its pitifully performing repeats and some Christmas specials was humbled with just a 1.38 rating average in the 18-49 demo, barely squeeking past Univision for adults 18-49.
Note that the chart includes RATINGS not VIEWERS as was typical in our weekly network ratings posts prior to July, 2009.
Each rating point is a percentage of the US TV population in that demographic group and equals: 2.90 million viewers, 1.32 million adults 18-49, 0.68 million adults 18-34 and 1.24 million adults 25-54.
You can see past week's broadcast network primetime weekly TV ratings results here.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
ION set another record high last week, attracting an all-time high in P2+ viewers:
Week 13 (Dec.14-20):
ION 0.7HH/1%, 0.3 A18-49 (400,000), 1,150,000 P2+ viewers
This was the third consecutive week that ION has climbed above the 400,000 A18-49 viewer and 1,000,000 P2+ viewer thresholds.
After 13 weeks of the 2009-10 season, in season-to-date averages, ION (0.6HH/1%, 0.3 A18-49, 930,000 P2+ viewers) is now ranked ahead of both TeleMundo and TeleFutura in households, and ION is also ahead of TeleFutura in P2+ viewers.
ION’s new ownership must be as pleased as punch that for the last three weeks, over a million viewers on average are keeping an eye on ION.
Univision has little competition in the Spanish-speaking TV universe, so it will get most of a growing audience. Illegal immigration has been a blessing for Univision.