Preliminary Ratings: Thursday 04/16/15

For the third night in a row, CBS is the king of broadcast TV, topping the chart in viewers, A18-49 and A25-54. CBS won two of the three hours in the younger demographic ratings and took all three hours in viewers and the older demo ratings. The impressive stat of the night was MOM holding 100% of its lead in audience. This could be the next classic sitcom from the Eye Network.

ABC was a close second place, just two tenths of a ratings point behind CBS, in the A18-49 demographic. SCANDAL did win the 9 p.m. hour in the A18-49 ratings, but placed second to the CBS comedies in viewers and in the A25-54 demo.

NBC and FOX battled it out for the scraps at third place. The real difference between the two networks was DATELINE doing relatively well at 10 p.m., pumping up NBC's nightly averages.

The CW Thursday nights was back in originals, but had little impact on the overall ratings.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	6.6 million	1.9	2.2
CBS	9.6 million	2.1	3.0
CW	1.2 million	0.5	0.6
FOX	4.1 million	0.9	1.3
NBC	4.2 million	0.8	1.2

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	Grey's Anatomy	7.60	2.1	2.5
9:00	ABC	Scandal	7.90	2.4	2.8
10:00	ABC	American Crime	4.40	1.1	1.4
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory	14.50	3.7	5.1
8:30	CBS	The Odd Couple	9.80	2.2	3.2
9:00	CBS	Mom	9.70	2.2	3.2
9:30	CBS	TBBT [R]	8.60	1.9	2.8
10:00	CBS	Elementary	7.40	1.4	1.9
8:00	CW	The Vampire Diaries	1.30	0.6	0.6
9:00	CW	Reign	1.00	0.4	0.4
8:00	FOX	Bones	4.70	1.0	1.5
9:00	FOX	Backstrom	3.40	0.7	1.0
8:00	NBC	Law & Order: SVU [R]	3.80	0.7	1.0
9:00	NBC	The Blacklist [R]	3.30	0.7	0.9
10:00	NBC	Dateline	5.40	1.1	1.6

* - in millions