Preliminary Ratings: Thursday 06/12/14

Game four of The NBA Finals dominated Thursday night's ratings, drawing its best preliminary numbers of the series, despite the rout by San Antonio, to take a three games to one lead and can clinch the title on Sunday night, on their home court.

FOX and NBC aired nothing but original programming, but CBS was the network that got the most of it's line up. Airing nothing but repeats, CBS scored more viewers than NBC and FOX, and competed with the two networks for second place in the A18-49 ratings. it also had the best rated program of the night, outside of ABC's NBA coverage, with THE BIG BANG THEORY pulling in better numbers with summer repeats than most sitcoms can in generate with original episodes, during the regular season.

FOX's GANG RELATED is now on the clock for cancellation as the network axed the horrible Tuesday night summer line up yesterday. GANG RELATED is pulling in better numbers, but still below acceptable levels for an expensive crime drama .
 

Preliminary Network Averages:

ABC - 10.6 million viewers, 4.2 rating in A18-49

CBS - 5.4 million viewers, 1.1 rating in A18-49

CW - 0.6 million viewers, 0.2 rating in A18-49

FOX - 3.8 million viewers, 1.2 rating in A18-49

NBC - 3.8 million viewers, 1.1 rating in A18-49

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	+/-
8:00	ABC	Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night 4	5.90	1.9
8:30	ABC	NBA Countdown	6.50	2.4	10%
9:00	ABC	NBA Finals - Game 4	12.80	5.2	97%
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	8.20	2.0
8:30	CBS	Mom [R]	6.30	1.4	-23%
9:00	CBS	Two And A Half Men [R]	5.50	1.2	-13%
9:30	CBS	The Millers [R]	4.40	0.9	-20%
10:00	CBS	Elementary [R]	3.90	0.6	-11%
8:00	CW	The Vampire Diaries [R]	0.60	0.2
9:00	CW	The Originals [R]	0.60	0.2	0%
8:00	FOX	Hell's Kitchen	4.80	1.6
9:00	FOX	Gang Related	2.70	0.8	0%
8:00	NBC	Hollywood Game Night	3.20	1.0
9:00	NBC	Undateable	3.30	1.0	3%
9:30	NBC	Undateable	3.00	0.9	-9%
10:00	NBC	Last Comic Standing	4.10	1.2	37%

* - in millions