Preliminary Ratings: Tuesday 07/01/04

NBC had an easy time dominating the TV landscape on Tuesday night.  The network more than doubled the next closest network, in the A18-49 ratings, and had over 50% more total viewers than CBS. NBC owns Tuesday nights, in the summer time.

Just renewed for a second season, THE NIGHT SHIFT showed how it earned that renewal. It grabbed 7.2 million viewers and a 1.5 demo ratings, which is an increase of 1.3 million viewers and 25% rise in the demo, over last week's numbers. The difference can have some attribution to a new AMERICA'S GOT TALENT, this week, but we have seen too many shows tank with great lead ins. THE NIGHT SHIFT is not one of those shows.

As we mentions, AGT was back with a new episode, after taking last Tuesday off, and was the #1 show of the night, drawing 11 million viewers and a 2.6 demo rating. The A18-49 ratings were even from two weeks ago, but viewership is down over 400,000 viewers.

ABC had a tough time in the ratings, despite an all original line up. The network drew just half the viewers CBS brought in, while CBS was in all-repeat mode. The two networks also posted the same A18-49 ratings, which looks bad with ABC's original line up.

Preliminary Network Averages:

ABC - 3.1 million viewers, 0.9 rating in A18-49

CBS - 6.2 million viewers, 0.9 rating in A18-49

CW - 0.5 million viewers, 0.2 rating in A18-49

FOX - 1.3 million viewers, 0.5 rating in A18-49

NBC - 9.7 million viewers, 2.2 rating in A18-49

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	+/-
8:00	ABC	Extreme Weight Loss	3.20	0.9
10:00	ABC	Celebrity Wife Swap	3.00	0.9	-6%
8:00	CBS	NCIS [R]	8.00	1.0
9:00	CBS	NCIS: LA [R]	5.90	1.0	-26%
10:00	CBS	Person Of Interest [R]	4.90	0.7	-17%
8:00	CW	Famous In 12	0.50	0.2
9:00	CW	Supernatural [R]	0.50	0.2	0%
8:00	FOX	Family Guy [R]	1.70	0.8
8:30	FOX	Brooklyn Nine-Nine [R]	1.20	0.5	-29%
9:00	FOX	Brooklyn Nine-Nine [R]	1.30	0.5	8%
9:30	FOX	The Mindy Project [R]	1.00	0.4	-23%
8:00	NBC	America's Got Talent [R]	11.00	2.6
10:00	NBC	The Night Shift	7.20	1.5	-35%

* - in millions