Complete Nielsen Ratings: December 2 - 8, 2013
The full Nielsen rankings and ratings from #1 to #95:
NBC easily sweeps the week in the ratings, on the strength of it's Wednesday and Thursday holiday programming.
The hyped up NBC production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC - LIVE! lived up to the hype by producing 18.6 million viewers and a strong 4.6 rating in Adults 18-49. It was the #3 program of the, bested by only NFL games on Sunday. Normally, NBC pulls in around 2.5 to 3 million viewers and a 1.0 demo rating, with it's regular Thursday line up, so this helped push NBC even higher in the ratings.
Wednesdays were also good for NBC with it's combo of holiday specials, CHRISTMAS IN ROCKEFELLER CENTER and a two hour clips show of the best SNL Christmas Sketches. The programs pulled in 9.7 and 7.4 million viewers, respectively and averaged about 3-4 million more viewers and a full ratings point higher than a typical Wednesday night. In all, NBC placed eight programs in the top 30, representing 12 1/2 hours of it's programming.
Coming in a strong second place was FOX. Football propelled it up from 4th place as Saturday's coverage of the Big Ten Football Championship hauled in13.9 million viewers and a solid 4.5 demo rating. It was easily the best showing of a Saturday football game, from FOX, as most games struggle to get three million viewers and break the 1.0 ratings level in the demographic ratings.
FOX only place three programs in the top 30, including the NFL overrun on Sunday evening. But all three programs made up half of the top 6 of there week. The top regular FOX series was Friday night's BONES episode, drawing 6.9 million viewers.
CBS didn't have a bad week, considering the number of repeats on it's schedule. NCIS, even with a repeat episode, was the 7th most watched program of the week. The network placed 17 shows in the top 30, including five repeat episodes.
ABC did not have a good showing. It's top program was MODERN FAMILY (#17) with just 9.5 million viewers is is only one of two ABC shows in the top 30. Repeats can't be blamed as only AGENTS OF SHIELD aired an encore episode.
The CW had one of it's best weeks of the season. ARROW drew over 3.2 million viewers, Christmas specials on Monday night out drew the normal Monday line up and Friday night had a relatively good night.
The Top 30 A18-49 demo stats:
NBC easily sweeps the week in the ratings, on the strength of it's Wednesday and Thursday holiday programming.
The hyped up NBC production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC - LIVE! lived up to the hype by producing 18.6 million viewers and a strong 4.6 rating in Adults 18-49. It was the #3 program of the, bested by only NFL games on Sunday. Normally, NBC pulls in around 2.5 to 3 million viewers and a 1.0 demo rating, with it's regular Thursday line up, so this helped push NBC even higher in the ratings.
Wednesdays were also good for NBC with it's combo of holiday specials, CHRISTMAS IN ROCKEFELLER CENTER and a two hour clips show of the best SNL Christmas Sketches. The programs pulled in 9.7 and 7.4 million viewers, respectively and averaged about 3-4 million more viewers and a full ratings point higher than a typical Wednesday night. In all, NBC placed eight programs in the top 30, representing 12 1/2 hours of it's programming.
Coming in a strong second place was FOX. Football propelled it up from 4th place as Saturday's coverage of the Big Ten Football Championship hauled in13.9 million viewers and a solid 4.5 demo rating. It was easily the best showing of a Saturday football game, from FOX, as most games struggle to get three million viewers and break the 1.0 ratings level in the demographic ratings.
FOX only place three programs in the top 30, including the NFL overrun on Sunday evening. But all three programs made up half of the top 6 of there week. The top regular FOX series was Friday night's BONES episode, drawing 6.9 million viewers.
CBS didn't have a bad week, considering the number of repeats on it's schedule. NCIS, even with a repeat episode, was the 7th most watched program of the week. The network placed 17 shows in the top 30, including five repeat episodes.
ABC did not have a good showing. It's top program was MODERN FAMILY (#17) with just 9.5 million viewers is is only one of two ABC shows in the top 30. Repeats can't be blamed as only AGENTS OF SHIELD aired an encore episode.
The CW had one of it's best weeks of the season. ARROW drew over 3.2 million viewers, Christmas specials on Monday night out drew the normal Monday line up and Friday night had a relatively good night.
The Top 30 A18-49 demo stats:
- CBS - 10 programs
- NBC - 10 programs
- FOX - 6 programs
- ABC - 4 programs
- CW - 0 program
- #1 Reality - THE VOICE (Tues)
- #1 Drama - NCIS (R)
- #1 New Drama - THE BLACKLIST
- #1 Comedy - THE BIG BANG THEORY
- #1 New Comedy - THE MILLERS
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Network Weekly Averages for Week of December 2, 2013:
| Network | Viewers | A18-49* | A25-54* | A18-34* | HH* |
| ABC | 5.88 m | 1.6/5 | 2.0/5 | 1.2/4 | 3.7/6 |
| CBS | 7.93 m | 1.7/5 | 2.4/6 | 1.1/4 | 5.0/8 |
| CW | 1.77 m | 0.7/2 | 0.7/2 | 0.7/2 | 1.1/06 |
| FOX | 7.19 m | 2.4/7 | 2.7/7 | 2.1/7 | 4.2/7 |
| ION | 1.42 m | 0.4/1 | -- | -- | 0.9/1 |
| NBC | 10.55 m | 3.1/9 | 3.7/9 | 2.5/8 | 6.4/10 |
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