Preliminary Ratings: Thursday 03/02/2017

NBC sweeps the Thursday night ratings, thinks to a special Thursday edition of THE VOICE, which drew 10.6 million viewers and a 2.3 rating n Adults 18-49, easily winning the hour. At 9 PM, CHICAGO MED had a great lead in and the final part of a four-part Franchise crossover event, and posted its best ratings of the season, 8.8 million viewers and a 0.7 demo rating. All this great early ratings was lost with THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION. The spin-off drama last close to half the total audience from CHICAGO MED and 0ver 40% in the A18-49 demographic.

FOX closed out the low rated cooking series, MY KITCHEN RULES, as just 2.2 million viewers tuned in for the final episode. From start to finish, the series struggled to draw an audience and I doubt we will see the series back in 2018.

CBS was in encore mode as the first two hours of the night were repeats of the comedies. The encores did well enough to rank second in each hour, behind NBC. At 10 PM, a new TRAINING DAY pulled in its usually low ratings, losing about a third of the demo ratings, form is comedy lead in.

The CW pulled in 4th place for the night thanks to ABC airing the third part of WHEN WE RISE and a Behind the Story special of the TV event series. WHEN WE RISE was the second lowest rated program of the night, barely beating The CW's RIVERDALE. With 9 hours devoted to WHEN WE RISE, ABC is on pace for a distant fourth place finish for the week, after winning the previous week.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	2.30 million	0.3	0.5	0.6
CBS	6.10 million	0.6	1.2	1.8
CW	1.40 million	0.4	0.5	0.6
FOX	2.90 million	0.6	1.0	1.2
NBC	8.00 million	0.9	1.7	2.2

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	When We Rise: BTS	2.70	0.3	0.5	0.7
9:00	ABC	When We Rise, Pt. 3	2.10	0.3	0.5	0.6
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	8.60	0.7	1.6	2.5
8:30	CBS	Mom [R]	6.70	0.6	1.3	2.0
9:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	7.30	0.7	1.5	2.3
9:30	CBS	Life In Pieces [R]	5.40	0.6	1.2	1.7
10:00	CBS	Training Day	4.40	0.4	0.8	1.2
8:00	CW	Supernatural	1.60	0.4	0.6	0.7
9:30	CW	Riverdale	1.10	0.3	0.4	0.4
8:00	FOX	Masterchef Jr.	3.60	0.7	1.1	1.4
9:00	FOX	My Kitchen Rules (SF)	2.20	0.5	0.8	1.0
8:00	NBC	The Voice	10.60	1.3	2.3	3.1
9:00	NBC	Chicago Med	8.80	1.0	1.7	2.3
10:00	NBC	The Blacklist: Redemption	4.70	0.5	1.0	1.3

* - viewers in millions