| Scoreboard | NBC | FOX | UNI | CBS | ABC | CW |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 2.3/7 | 2.2/7 | 1.3/4 | 1.1/3 | 0.8/2 | 0.3/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.6/6 | 2.0/7 | 1.4/5 | 0.5/2 | 0.5/2 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.879 | 5.394 | 3.263 | 6.467 | 2.891 | 0.647 |
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NBC was the number one network in adults 18-49 and in total viewers, led by the return of America's Got Talent, which earned a 2.7 18-49 rating, even with its last original three weeks ago.
On FOX, the second episode of Hotel Hell earned a 2.1 rating, up two tenths from Monday's 1.9 premiere rating. MasterChef returned from its Olympics hiatus, to earn a 2.4 18-49 rating, down a tenth from its last original three weeks ago.
On ABC, NY Med garnered a 1.0 18-49 rating, up three tenths from last week's 0.7 adults 18-49.
On the CW, The LA Complex was even with last week's 0.2.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Tuesday, August 14, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | NBC | America's Got Talent -Live (9-10PM) | 2.7 | 8 | 9.822 |
| FOX | Hotel Hell | 2.1 | 7 | 5.087 | |
| CBS | NCIS -R | 1.1 | 4 | 7.164 | |
| ABC | The Middle -R | 0.8 | 3 | 3.236 | |
| CW | Hart Of Dixie -R | 0.3 | 1 | 0.768 | |
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| 8:30PM | ABC | Last Man Standing | 0.8 | 2 | 2.735 |
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| 9:00PM | FOX | MasterChef | 2.4 | 7 | 5.701 |
| CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles -R | 1.1 | 3 | 6.340 | |
| ABC | Happy Ending -R | 0.6 | 2 | 1.849 | |
| CW | The LA Complex | 0.2 | 1 | 0.527 | |
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| 9:30PM | ABC | Don't Trust The B in Apt 23 -R | 0.6 | 2 | 1.673 |
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| 10:00PM | NBC | Stars Earn Stripes -R | 1.4 | 4 | 3.991 |
| CBS | The Mentalist -R | 1.1 | 3 | 5.897 | |
| ABC | NY Med | 1.0 | 3 | 4.195 | |
Via Press Note:
In Late-Night Metered Markets Tuesday night:
- In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.2/6; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.6/7; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 2.7/6; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.3/4.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 0.7/3; "Late Show," 0.6/3; "Nightline," 0.9/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.5/3.
- At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.7/3 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
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NOTE: All national ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.
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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.
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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. 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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Thank God for LA Complex…I’d love for it to get adjusted to a 0.3 but who knows. Maybe if they put a decent lead-in ahead of it it could pull some better numbers. But really, do they even have anything else decent to air? They’re premiering a f*cking MUSICAL CHAIRS show tonight.
Looks like paying 15million for a has been and moving the Show across country really paid off for NBC
@ tv_viewer: I’m coming back to Rookie Blue this week as the Olympics kept me away from the regular programs I’ve been watching this summer and I wonder who got killed. I know they had a huge two part episode that I’m still upset that I missed out on.
I would actually say that The Middle and LMS have been doing decently all summer in that Tuesday timeslot. It’s the 9pm timeslot that’s in real deep trouble. Happy Endings and Apt. 23 might be in last place in that single-cam race this fall. Like I just said before TGIF’s LMS and Reba will be moving from Fridays to Tuesdays sooner rather than later.
I definitely think that LA Complex would be doing really well for the quality that it brings if it wasn’t on The CW. That goes for other shows like Nikita and Supernatural too.
I swear LA Complex is like the top show on TV that gets ratings it doesn’t deserve.
If NCIS, The Big Bang Theory, and Two and a Half Men moved to Friday nights or even Saturday nights in January 2013, what kind of ratings would those shows get? Would they get the same ratings they usually get during the TV season or would the ratings drop?
@Charlie Sheen
Nothing ever gets moved from Fridays. If it starts airing there, it will keep airing there. And since LMS and Reba are starting two weeks after Happy Endings/Apartment 23, there would be no time for the network to suddenly start advertising the shows with the new time slot. Besides, I don’t think NBC’s comedies are going to be much of a factor. By the time Happy Endings and Apartment 23 roll out, Go On and New Normal will already be hovering around a 1.4-1.6 rating.
Also, as people keep pointing out year after year, summer repeats have never been nor will they ever be, indicative of Fall ratings.
such a strange moment when nbc is on top! haha
@ jojo
That’s not a lie either I just saw the number last Thursday for LAC on a few of those sites and LAC was constantly near the top. I think it really is the network that’s holding that show back from doing better in the ratings.
@SJ
No, but people will do it anyway because we have nothing better to do.
@ SJ
You don’t know if it won’t or not, I highly doubt just because of the time all of those are premiering that they’ll be moved right away but a mid-season move is a possibility.
Summer repeats more times than not will give you a few clues on how a show will do during the fall that’s why people take a lot of stock into them. If they really didn’t matter than the networks wouldn’t go out of their way to prepare the audiences in those timeslots or months before they premiere.
@ Austin Lauran
I think they’d do well on Fridays and Saturdays, the only problem they would have is a decrease in the demo but they would do super well especially NCIS which already does good numbers on the weekends on USA and it skews to that kind of audience too.
more TV people start talking of L.A. Complex : EW PopWatch made a great rewiew yesterday and Dan Harmon said he love the show on twitter last week.
Surprisingly respectable repeat numbers for Stars Earn Stripes. It looked like the premiere had bombed but perhaps not. The strong lead-in must have helped.
Not so great for Happy Endings/Apt 23. That said, I suspect they skew very young and young skewing shows tend to repeat badly, it’s a timeslot premiere after being off the air for months, and there’s some reasonably tough original competition.
Even so, I’ve been thinking for a while HE/Apt23 would struggle next season. I suspect HE will eventually be renewed so Sony can get it to syndication numbers (even if it means it moving to cable) but I think Apt 23 is a goner.
LA Complex has a chance to breakout if more people discover it. I haven’t seen a show this original in a long time. My problem with the show is the network its on.
@Bills
Summer repeats haven’t really given any “clues” to a show’s successes in the fall beyond what we already know/don’t know. That’s why we don’t really bother to pour over them. Some shows inherently repeat better than others — The Middle is an example of this. Some shows repeat comparatively poorly. It’s not worth anyone’s time to pour over summer repeat ratings.
@ Sylar
You’re right and I also believe its because people actually don’t have access to The CW. Even though CW is a broadcaster a lot of markets don’t have the channel available. I think I read somewhere that ABC Family gets into more homes than The CW.
@ Tyler
It goes both ways, you can either argue over it or you don’t its as simple as that.
If you like a show then watch it no matter what network it is on…
I watched SES because sevral people who have won the nobel peace prise want it off the air as if it this prise is reserved for trully peacefull people. Through the years the nobel peaceprize has been shown to be full of politics, who lobbies the hardest execpt peaceful people. Sad to say NBC has caved. On another note AGT had a lot talent that needed to go back to the drawing board.
So how many weeks has AGT lead-in been wasted on reruns? Pathetic.
Nothing except TBBT has been repeating well this summer so I’m not going to comment on ABC comedy reruns. Commenting on rerun ratings are just boring.
Good demo for Apt. 23 even though it was against a lot of good cable shows and repeats. Let me ask ya’ll a question, do u think Apt. 23 is gonna do better against all the weak competition(except for NCIS:LA) in the fall since there premiering in late October and everything else is premiering in late September?
The LA Complex was great last night. Love the show. However I am a litte concerned. At the end of the show they did not show a preview of next week. The CW said they were dedicated to the full second season. I don’t know now.