Ratings: Broadcast Finals for February 21, 2013

The CW has something to boast about as we enter the weekend. +The Vampire Diaries Finished third in the demo ratings, for the 8:00 p.m. hour, beating both +Zero Hour on ABC and the +NBC comedies COMMUNITY and PARKS & REC. TVD earned a 1.3 rating in Adults 18-49, while ABC and NBC averaged just a 1.1 rating in the category. TVD will be +The CW Television Network top show in the young demographic ratings.

+American Idol was just/not strong enough to give FOX a rare Thursday night win in both measured categories. The two hour edition drew 13.66 million viewers and a 3.9 demo rating. That is ____just a hair better than the 13.64 million viewers CBS produced, but was a easier victory in the A18-49 ratings.

More bad ratings news for NBC in the 9 p.m. hour as neither program was able to gather an audience over 3 million viewers. +1600 Penn will be giving THE NEW NORMAL a run for its money as the lowest rated original program, from the Big 4 networks, with its 1.0 demo rating and just 2.3 million viewers.

- The encore of +Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is up about a 1/2 million viewers from last week.
- ZERO HOUR dropped 16% in viewers and 21% in the demo, from last week's premiere.
- With coverage of a Latin music awards program, UNIVISION actually finished 3rd in the network ratings with a 2.5 rating in the A18-49 demographic.

For the night:

FOX - 13.7 million viewers, 3.9 rating in Adults 18-49

CBS - 13.6 million viewers, 3.4 rating in Adults 18-49

ABC - 7.3 million viewers, 2.3 rating in Adults 18-49

NBC - 3.17 million viewers, 1.2 rating in Adults 18-49

FOX - 2.2 million viewers, 0.9 rating in Adults 18-49

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	Demo	+/-
8:00	ABC	Zero Hour	5.39	1.1
9:00	ABC	Grey's Anatomy	8.75	3.1	62%
10:00	ABC	Scandal	7.68	2.7	-12%
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory	17.62	5.6
8:30	CBS	Two and a Half Men	13.41	3.9	-24%
9:00	CBS	Person Of Interest	14.22	2.9	6%
10:00	CBS	Elementary	11.19	2.4	-21%
8:00	CW	The Vampire Diaries	2.91	1.3
9:00	CW	Beauty and the Beast	1.52	0.5	-48%
8:00	FOX	American Idol	13.66	3.9
8:00	NBC	Community	3.08	1.1
8:30	NBC	Parks & Rec	3.07	1.4	even
9:00	NBC	Parks & Rec	2.95	1.4	-4%
9:30	NBC	1600 Penn	2.34	1.0	-21%
10:00	NBC	Law & Order: SVU [R]	3.88	1.1	66%

* - in millions