Final Broadcast Ratings: September 28, 2015

NBC had no problem winning the Monday night ratings, sweeping the numbers in every category. Week-to-week, the networks, in general, were down. NBC dropped 700,000 in total viewers and averaged a three tenths of a point fall in each of the three demo ratings. CBS was off by 1.6 million viewers and lost 0.3 points in the A18-34 demo and 0.4 points in the A18-49 demo. FOX lost the least, dropping just 200k in total viewers, but saw the two younger demographic rise by a tenth of a point. ABC lost one million in viewers and lost an average of three tenths of a point in each demo category.

THE BIG BANG THEORY was the biggest loser, dropping 3 million viewers, 0.6 points in the A18-34 demo, 0.9 points in the A18-49 demo and 1.2 points in the A25-54 demo. LIFE IN PIECES was not far behind in the major erosion.

ABC saw a big drop from the preliminary ratings. What was looking like as decent week-to-week gains, turned out to be losses similar to the other networks. CASTLE was flat in the demos, but lost two million total viewers. The network must have had a preemption in a few markets to have such a swing between prelims and finals.

Last week's "hit", BLINDSPOT  held up relatively well. Viewership did drop 1.5 million (-15%) and the three demo graphic lost 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7 points, respectively. Well within normal parameters of a second week of a new series.

Final L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	9.60 million	1.1	1.5	2.1
CBS	9.60 million	1.0	1.9	2.7
CW	1.20 million	0.3	0.4	0.5
FOX	3.60 million	1.0	1.3	1.6
NBC	10.90 million	1.9	3.1	3.9

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	L+3^	L+7^
8:00	ABC	Dancing With The Stars	11.04	1.6	13.70(2.2)	14.10(2.3)
10:00	ABC	Castle	6.70	1.2	11.80(2.4)	12.90(2.6)
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory	15.23	3.8
8:30	CBS	Life In Pieces	8.71	1.9
9:00	CBS	Scorpion	9.50	1.7
10:00	CBS	NCIS: LA	7.66	1.2
8:00	CW	Penn & Teller: Fool Us	1.34	0.4
9:00	CW	Whose Line is it Anyway?	1.19	0.4
9:30	CW	Significant Mother	0.67	0.2
8:00	FOX	Gotham	4.65	1.6
9:00	FOX	Minority Report	2.57	0.9
8:00	NBC	The Voice	12.09	3.4	13.73(4.0)	14.16(4.2)
10:00	NBC	Blindspot	9.11	2.6

* - total viewers, in millions
^ - projected ratings: millions of viewers(A18-49 demo rating)