Preliminary Ratings: Monday 09/12/2016

The 2016-17 season is ramping up and ABC is taking an early lead, before the official start of the season. The season premiere of DANCING WITH THE STARS was the #1 show of the night, in every category, including a solid 13.7 million viewers. The 2016 premiere top last year's premiere, by 500,000 total viewers and over 20% in the A18-49 demo. The A18-34 demographic was up by 50%, for DWTS. The season finale of the game show, $100,000 PYRAMID lost over half the viewers, but was more than double last week's MISTRESSES ratings.


With the season finale of AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR, NBC was a solid #2 on the night. ANW collected 5.8 million viewers and a 1.7 rating in the A18-49 demo, staying mostly flay, from last week's ratings. RUNNING WILD was up, week-to-week, with 3.7 million viewers.

With the season finale of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE: THE NEXT GENERATION, FOX placed fourth on the night, behind an mostly encore night for CBS. SYTYCD has been pulling horrible numbers for the past few seasons, but still returns for another summer each time.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	11.30 million	1.5	2.2	2.9
CBS	4.60 million	0.5	0.9	1.4
CW	1.00 million	0.1	0.2	0.3
FOX	2.30 million	0.5	0.7	0.8
NBC	5.10 million	1.1	1.5	2.0

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	DWTS (SP)	13.70	1.8	2.6	3.4
10:00	ABC	$100,000 Pyramid (SF)	6.60	0.9	1.4	1.8
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	6.60	0.9	1.4	1.8
8:30	CBS	CBS Fall Preview	4.90	0.4	0.9	1.5
9:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	5.00	0.5	1.1	1.7
9:30	CBS	Mom [R]	3.80	0.4	0.8	1.3
10:00	CBS	Scorpion [R]	3.70	0.3	0.7	1.0
8:00	CW	Supergirl [R]	1.00	0.1	0.2	0.3
9:00	CW	Supergirl [R]	1.00	0.1	0.2	0.3
8:00	FOX	SYTYCD:TNG (SF)	2.30	0.5	0.7	0.8
8:00	NBC	American Ninja Warrior (SF)	5.80	1.2	1.7	2.2
10:00	NBC	Running Wild/Bear Grylls	3.70	1.0	1.2	1.5

* - viewers in millions