Broadcast primetime live + same-day ratings for Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017
The numbers for Wednesday include an interview with the new president and a hard fall for a new CBS show in its regular home:
| Time | Show | Adults 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (millions) |
| 8 p.m. | Lethal Weapon (FOX) | 1.4/5 | 6.25 |
| Hunted (CBS) (8-10 p.m.) | 1.3/5 | 5.48 | |
| The Goldbergs (ABC) – R | 1.2/4 | 4.78 | |
| Law & Order: SVU (NBC) – R | 0.8/3 | 4.16 | |
| Arrow (The CW) | 0.6/2 | 1.68 | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Speechless (ABC) – R | 1.1/4 | 4.02 |
| 9 p.m. | Star (FOX) | 1.2/4 | 3.87 |
| Modern Family (ABC) – R | 1.1/4 | 4.42 | |
| Law & Order: SVU (NBC) – R | 1.0/4 | 5.15 | |
| Frequency (The CW) – F | 0.3/1 | 0.83 | |
| 9:30 p.m. | Black-ish (ABC) – R | 1.1/4 | 3.91 |
| 10 p.m. | President Trump: The First Interview (ABC) – S | 1.7/6 | 7.50 |
| Code Black (CBS) | 0.9/3 | 5.61 | |
| Chicago PD (NBC) – R | 0.8/3 | 4.37 |
CBS’ “Hunted” took a serious fall Wednesday in its first airing in its regular home. The show, which had the biggest series premiere of the season on Sunday following the AFC Championship, fell 68 percent in adults 18-49 from a 4.1 to a 1.3.
On the (slightly) bright side, “Hunted” did outperform “Undercover Boss'” 8 p.m. numbers. “Code Black,” meanwhile, was on its average with a 0.9.
ABC had the night’s top show with a news special featuring President Trump. It drew a 1.7 in the 18-49 demo and 7.5 million viewers. The network’s comedies and NBC’s lineup took the night off.
FOX’s “Lethal Weapon” (1.4) and “Star” (1.2) both held steady with last week. “Arrow” (0.6) returned to The CW slightly lower, down a tenth of a point from its last episode. The finale of “Frequency” rose a tenth vs. last week to 0.3.
Network averages:
| ABC | FOX | CBS | NBC | CW | |
| Adults 18-49 rating/share | 1.3/5 | 1.3/5 | 1.2/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.4/2 |
| Total Viewers (millions) | 5.35 | 5.06 | 5.52 | 4.56 | 1.25 |
Late night metered-market ratings (adults 18-49, households):
11:35 p.m.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live”: 0.7/4, 2.2/6
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”: 0.6/4, 2.2/6
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” – R: 0.3/2, 1.8/5
12:35 a.m.
“Late Night with Seth Meyers”: 0.4/3, 1.2/4
“Nightline”: 0.3/2, 1.4/5
“The Late Late Show with James Corden” – R: 0.2/1, 0.9/3
Note: An earlier version of this story had the 18-49 rating for “Hunted” at 1.4; it was in fact 1.3, as now correctly noted above.
Definitions:
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.
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings are available at approximately 11 a.m. ET the day after telecast. 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.
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.
Time Shifted Viewing: Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live +Same-Day and Live +7 Day. Time-shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+SD includes viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3 a.m. local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live +7 ratings include viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
Source: The Nielsen Company.
