via press release:
CBS VICTORIOUS ON TUESDAY
CBS Wins Every Hour in Viewers and Places First on the Night in Adults 18-49
“NCIS” Delivers 19.4 Million Viewers Opposite the Highly Promoted Premiere
of “V”
“The Good Wife” Sweeps Its Time Period in all Measures
CBS won every hour in viewers and placed first in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 on a night that included the highly promoted premiere of “V” on ABC, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Tuesday, Nov. 3.
NCIS won its time slot in households (11.7/18), viewers (19.39m) and was second in both adults 25-54 (5.7/11, -0.2 behind ABC) and adults 18-49 (4.2/11). CBS won this time period for the seventh consecutive week in viewers.
NCIS: LOS ANGELES won its time slot in households (9.5/15), viewers (15.01m), adults 25-54 (4.8/11) and was second in adults 18-49 (3.5/09).
THE GOOD WIFE was first in households (8.3/14), viewers (12.25m), adults 25-54 (3.8/10) and adults 18-49 (2.7/08). CBS was first in this time period seventh consecutive week in viewers, first for the sixth time in seven weeks in adults 25-54 and first in adults 18-49 for the fifth time in seven weeks.
For the night, CBS was first in households (9.8/16), viewers (15.55m), adults 25-54 (4.8/12) and adults 18-49 (3.4/09). CBS won Tuesday every week this season in households and viewers, six times in seven weeks in adults 25-54 and five times in seven weeks in adults 18-49.
Updated Tuesday ratings will be available this afternoon.
I thought the great V won.. So freakin confused
V won 8pm with adults 18-49, but NCIS had more viewers. Though ABC won the 8pm hour with adults 18-49, for overall prime time (8pm-11pm) CBS averaged more adults 18-49 then the other networks.
Hahaha, you know CBS is having bad week when they have to spin NCIS’ numbers for likely the first time ever. First FOX has baseball crap all over their Monday and now V is actually starting out great. Something tells me the CSI crossover event will fall lat too. Well, they’ll always have Friday.
@idizzle, umm what? They have been spinning NICS’ numbers since the whole season started! Haven’t you seen the previous press releases?
CBS doesn’t have to spin anything. NCIS has been the most watched show so far this TV year and their demos are good.
For some reason it is considered spectacular if a show pulls 6 million viewers and gets a 4 in the demos but somehow if you pull 20 million and a 4 in the demos that is a bad thing. Fact is, both shows are pulling a 4 in the demos. And despite what the advertisers say I bet they would rather have 20 million people watching their ads with equal demos than just 6. They just don’t want to pay for the out of demo viewers. It’s the economics. The “old” folks and the “young folks” are just a bonus.
Yeah, um NCIS doesn’t need to “spin” their numbers. It’s doing fine. Although they can’t advertise NCIS:LA as “TV’s most watched new show” anymore, now that “V” is out.
Either of those networks have any reason to complain. CBS airs only hit shows – 12 of their scripted shows do at least 3.0 18/49 and/or at least 10 million viewers – while ABC is a complete breath of fresh air with its versatile lineup and the strongest freshman lineup of any network (Cougar Town, Modern Family, FlashForward and now V), although its vets are still doing strong business, too.
It’s funny how Tuesday 8:00 is CBS’ #1 hour now. Some of us can remember way back when Tuesday 8:00 was CBS’ equivalent of dead air. Where shows were sent to die. Where huge hits nearly croaked (”Simon & Simon”) or did croak (”AfterM*A*S*H”). Where there was never any constant to what CBS aired there, the only constant was that, whatever it was, viewers were guaranteed to be watching NBC and ABC instead.
Even funnier is that it took a cheap little nothing of a show featuring rescue reenactments and hosted by The Shat to turn the lights on.