| Scoreboard | FOX | CBS | ABC | UNI | NBC | CW |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 1.9/6 | 1.8/6 | 1.4/4 | 1.3/4 | 1.0/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.6/6 | 1.2/4 | 0.9/3 | 1.3/5 | 0.7/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 5.191 | 6.248 | 4.639 | 3.406 | 4.164 | 0.881 |
Due to the nature of live sports programming the ratings for FOX (NFL Preseason Football) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.
Note: NBC carried local NFL Pre-Season football in Cleveland and Milwaukee, CBS carried the NFL in Columbus and Dayton, so these numbers may be inflated due to local pre-emptions
FOX was the number one network among adults 18-49, but CBS won with total viewers.
On NBC, Saving Hope earned a 0.9, up 50% from its last original, which aired three weeks ago. Rock Center With Brian Williams earned a 1.2, up 50% from its last original from three weeks ago.
On CBS, Big Brother earned a 2.3 among adults 18-49,up half a ratings point from last week's 1.8, and a new season high for Thursday.
On ABC, the Time Machine Chefs special earned a 1.2 among adults 18-49. A new episode of Wipeout at 8PM earned a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating, from last week's 1.2. Rookie Blue garnered a 1.3 adults 18-49 rating up two tenths from its last original, which earned a 1.1 rating.
On FOX, NFL Preseason Football earned a 1.9 18-49 rating
On The CW, Oh Sit! earned a 0.3, down two tenths from its premiere yesterday, which earned a 0.5 rating. The Next premiered to a 0.3 18-49 rating.
Late-night ratings are below the primetime data.
Overnight ratings for Thursday, August 16, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | CBS | The Big Bang Theory -R | 2.1 | 8 | 8.086 |
| FOX | NFL Preseason Football -Live | 1.9 | 6 | 5.191 | |
| ABC | Wipeout | 1.6 | 6 | 5.465 | |
| NBC | The Office -R | 1.0 | 4 | 3.402 | |
| CW | Oh Sit | 0.3 | 1 | 0.911 | |
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| 8:30PM | CBS | Two and a Half Men -R | 1.9 | 6 | 6.847 |
| NBC | Parks and Recreation -R | 1.0 | 3 | 2.928 | |
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| 9:00PM | CBS | Big Brother -Live | 2.3 | 7 | 6.310 |
| ABC | Time Machine Chefs -Special | 1.2 | 3 | 3.461 | |
| NBC | Saving Hope | 0.9 | 3 | 4.175 | |
| CW | The Next -P | 0.3 | 1 | 0.850 | |
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| 10:00 PM | ABC | Rookie Blue | 1.3 | 4 | 4.992 |
| NBC | Rock Center with Brian Williams | 1.2 | 4 | 5.152 | |
| CBS | Person Of Interest -R | 1.1 | 3 | 4.967 | |
via Press Note:
In Late-Night Metered Markets Thursday night:
- In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.8/7; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.0/5; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 2.7/6; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.4/4.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 0.8/4; "Late Show," 0.5/2; "Nightline," 0.9/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.5/3.
- At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.8/3 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.2/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
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NOTE: All 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 baseball 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. 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.
For more information see Numbers 101.
Time Machine Chefs is not a new series, its a one-time special.
Wow! And here I thought Tge Next would’ve premiered higher than Oh Sit. Poor CW.
Wow..THE NEXT didn’t do nearly as good as I thought it would.
wow the next premiere just with a 0.3 ? with all the promotion and joe jonas?
Yikes at The Next and Oh Sit’s numbers. Thought yesterday’s OS numbers were a good sign.
Wouldn’t a 1.2 be up 100% from a 0.6? (Rock Center)
I really thought The Next would have premiered higher than Oh Sit! did yesterday as well.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, CW.
I’m pretty bummed that “The Next” did that bad, cuz i actually liked it alot.. In my opinion i thought it was better than “The Voice.” I hope it increase next thursday.
LOL CW down again. I do feel sorry for the network but its also funny.
Wow a REPEAT of TBBT tops the night! The Office did good I guess vs the 0.6s it got few weeks ago. However, I want Michael Scott back. He’s easily the funniest man on TV.
In the table Saving Hope appears with a 1.0…
Is that right?
Shouldve just aired TVD for 2 hours CW.
Looks like 2 1/2 men moving to Thursday was a smart move by CBS. It should have no problem retaining 80% of BBT’s lead in and help POI and Elementary.
Wasn’t on NBC football too?
NBC’s ratings look a bit high. Any pre-emptions last night?
ABC put absolutely no promotion into Time Machine Chefs so not surprised.
Besides the aformented preseason contest on FOX, there was just one other preseason game last night:
Cleveland @ Green Bay – 8:00 PM ET
Browns broadcast:
(Jim Donovan, Bernie Kosar)
WKYC 3 (NBC; Cleveland)
WBNS 10 (CBS; Columbus)
WYTV 33 (ABC; Youngstown)
WHIO 7 (CBS; Dayton)
Packers broadcast:
(Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon)
WGBA 26 (NBC; Green Bay)
WTMJ 4 (NBC; Milwaukee)
WKOW 27 (ABC; Madison)
WXOW 19 (ABC; La Crosse WI)
WQOW 18 (ABC; Eau Claire WI)
WAOW 9 (ABC; Wausau WI)
WLUC 6 (NBC; Marquette MI)
KQDS 21 (FOX; Duluth MN)
KGCW 26 (CW; Davenport IA)
KCWI 23 (CW; Des Moines)
KMTV 3 (CBS; Omaha)
Both teams are from small markets, so it’s unlikely there will be any significant down adjustments (maybe a tenth at most). Although the FOX station in Duluth did not air the Bengals-Falcons game at all and did not move it to another station in the market.
“Wasn’t on NBC football too?”
Not nationally, although there will on many nights have been pre-season football in some local markets. That’s pretty typical during the preseason.
It’s so random and down in the weeds that it’s not worth our time to point out the individual markets every single day, and it all gets factored out in the final ratings later in the day, but if you’re interested the into can be found here:
http://www.the506.com
Edit: I see that Chris beat me to it with the entire list for last night.
The Big Bang Theory & Two And A Half Men are monsters even in repeats.
Monday is weaker than ever based off of recent encore ratings and Mike & Molly looks to be the strongest. But everything will be up in Fall.
“The Next” had a lot of potential, but clearly wasn’t gonna work on a summer season where everything is below 0.4 on the network. If they had given a short season to “Beauty and the Beast” and replaced it with “The Next” on the mid season, the CW could have another two hits.
Saving Hopes numbers, if true are the highest the show has ever reached, even higher than the first episode.
You don’t see that happening often.
Pilot aka Episode 1: 3.12 mill
Episode 8: 2.86 mill
Episode 9: 4.17 mill
Strange..