Scoreboard
Rating/Share: Adults 18-49	3.7/10	3.5/10	2.3/6	2.3/6	1.5/4	1.4/4
Rating/Share: Adults 18-34	3.4/7	3.2/10	2.5/8	1.8/5	1.7/5	1.6/5
Total Viewers (million)	14.351	10.321	5.431	7.870	3.232	3.733

Almost every show on broadcast television was down last night vs. last week, FlashForward continued its ratings slide, Grey’s Anatomy tied a series low rating and even CW darling Vampire Diaries had a down night, as CBS edged ABC for the night’s overall adults 18-49 ratings win.

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Rating: Adults 18-49	3.1/9	2.7/7	2.6/7	2.0/6	1.5/4	1.3/3
Rating: Adults 18-34	2.0/6	2.9/9	2.1/6	1.5/5	1.7/5	1.5/4
Total Viewers (million)	11.49	6.48	7.27	7.02	3.95	2.74

CBS won the night both with adults 18-49 and overall viewers on the backs of Criminal Minds and CSI: NY.

FOX edged out ABC for second with adults 18-49 and FOX won the night outright with adults 18-34 by a wide margin with its lineup of So You Think You Can Dance and Glee.  Glee was the night’s highest-rated program of the night with adults 18-34 and teens.

Modern Family and Cougar Town were both up from the ratings-notched November 4th when Cougar Town hit a series low with adults 18-49  (CMA Awards aired last week) and were the night’s most-watched comedies.

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Rating: Adults 18-49	3.4/9	3.0/8	2.7/7	2.4/7	1.5/4	0.9/3
Rating: Adults 18-34	2.3/7	2.3/7	1.9/6	2.5/7	1.7/5	1.3/4
Total Viewers (million)	15.926	8.284	10.932	5.984	3.840	1.838

The return of Heather Locklear gave a bump to Melrose Place’s ratings. It had only the slightest increase to a 0.8 rating for adults 18-49 (vs. a 0.7 last week), but did better among youth increasing to a 1.1 rating for adults 18-34 (vs. a 0.8 last week) and a 1.6 rating for women 18-34 (vs. a 1.2 last week) . That’s slightly better than I expected in the women’s 18-34 demos, but less in the other two categories. Those numbers, which are unlikely to be maintained, are not going to save the show. ABC’s V ratings continued to fall, to a 3.1 adults 18-49 rating, down 16% from last week.

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Adults 18-49: Rating/Share	4.0/10	4.0/10	3.4/9	1.8/5	1.5/4	1.2/3
Adults 18-34: Rating/Share	3.9/11	3.2/9	2.3/7	1.5/4	1.6/4	1.5/4
Total Viewers (million)	10.38	11.79	16.11	4.90	3.95	2.43

The fast national data for Monday is in (these are the preliminary fast national numbers, and are not the final numbers).  In the interest of time/data backlog, I’ll spare you the analysis and let you get right to the numbers.

Here are last Monday’s preliminary numbers for comparison.

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Due to the nature of live sports programming the ratings for NBC (Sunday Night Football) and Fox (NFL Overrun) (and possibly a CBS NFL overrun in some markets) are approximate and subject to significant revisions in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.

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Adults 18-49: Rating/Share	6.0/15	4.6/12	3.5/9	2.3/6	0.8/2
Adults 18-34: Rating/Share	5.3/15	4.9/14	2.7/8	1.5/4	1.8/2
Total Viewers (million)	16.145	10.890	11.146	10.398	2.186

NBC didn’t need to go for it on 4th down, as the Patriots/Colts Sunday Night Football matchup easily got them the nightly ratings win. Boosted by a football overrun, Fox was a strong second place.

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Adults 18-49: Rating/Share	1.6/5	1.4/5	1.0/3	0.9/3
Total Viewers (million)	4.9/7	5.41	5.80	3.97

Note: coverage of live events like last night’s sports (College Football (ABC),  makes their numbers approximate and subject to greater than normal adjustment. See definitions below for more information on these Fast Affiliate ratings.

Most of the country (~83%) got Notre Dame losing to #8 Pittsburgh, while the remainder saw Texas Tech losing to Oklahoma State.  In the preliminary, non-time zone adjusted numbers, the college game combo lost out to the battle-worn tandem of Cops and America’s Most Wanted on FOX, though the college game led the 10pm hour with both viewers and adults 18-49.    NBC was all reruns, and CBS ran its typical Saturday lineup of reruns plus 48 Hours Mystery.

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You can see TV ratings from other recent Overnight ratings reports here.

Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source: Marc Berman/Mediaweek.

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.

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 which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. 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 and Numbers 102.

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Rating/Share: Adults 18-49	1.9/6	1.5/5	1.5.5	1.1/4	0.9/3
Total Viewers (million)	8.11	6.51	5.41	3.75	2.02

More or less your typical Friday, with CBS taking the night overall with adults 18-49 and with overall viewers.  Ghost Whisperer was the night’s highest-rated program with a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating.

Meanwhile Smallville fans will delight that Smallville hit a season high in viewers (2.7 million) and matched its season highs with adults 18-34 (1.2/5) and adults 18-49 (1.2/5).  Smallville ranked #1 in the hour in men 18-34 (1.3/6) and men 18-49 (1.3/5-tie) and ranked second in adults 18-34. And for those who just can’t stand not knowing, Smallville pulled a 1.0/4 with women 18-34.

Ugly Betty was on par with last week with adults 18-49, though down slightly with viewers.

Meanwhile over on FOX,  a Bones rerun once again outperformed  the most recent airing of an original Dollhouse at 9pm by 50 percent (1.2 vs. .8).

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Scoreboard
Rating/Share: Adults 18-49	4.0/11	3.8/10	2.5/7	2.4/6	1.7/4	1.3/3
Rating/Share: Adults 18-34	3.8/11	2.4/7	2.0/6	2.6/7	1.9/5	1.4/4
Total Viewers (million)	10.972	15.220	7.858	5.438	3.541	3.292

Blame it on the World Series. Fringe recovered from its heart stopping 1.7 rating last Thursday to a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating last night, close to its season average.

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