Final Broadcast Ratings: October 1, 2015

CBS had an easy time sweeping the Thursday night ratings, with THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL posting significantly better numbers than last week's game. The Steelers vs Ravens game increased 2.6 million viewers and nine-tenths of a point in the A18-49 ratings, over last week's ratings.

FOX premiered its two Thursday night dramas. BONES and SLEEPY HOLLOW held down the 4th place slot for FOX, drawing sub-par numbers. BONS is getting old and SLEEPY HOLLOW was fading fast last year. The sad part is that BONES is still one of the better performing series on the network.

NBC gave us the third season premiere of THE BLACKLIST and it did OK. That is up from last season's finale, by a few hundred thousand in total viewers and two tenths in the A18-49 demo. But, since moving to Thursday nights, The once ratings powerhouse, on Monday Nights, is now an also-ran on Thursdays and may be prematurely killing the series. And, it is not helping as a lead in as THE PLAYER lost 25% in the A18-49 demo and 33% in the A18-34 demo, from last week's premiere, despite a better lead in.

ABC stayed solid at the #2 spot but was down week-to-week.

Final L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	8.40 million	2.2	2.5	2.9
CBS	17.60 million	5.3	6.2	6.8
CW	1.00 million	0.2	0.3	0.4
FOX	4.80 million	0.7	1.2	1.7
NBC	5.80 million	0.7	1.5	1.9

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	L+3^	L+7^
8:00	ABC	Grey's Anatomy	8.58	2.3	12.80(3.4)	13.80(3.6)
9:00	ABC	Scandal	9.12	2.8	13.40(4.2)	14.10(4.4)
10:00	ABC	HTGAWM	7.53	2.3	12.00(3.7)	12.80(3.9)
8:00	CBS	TNF Kickoff	8.33	2.5
8:30	CBS	TNF: PIT vs BAL	19.44	6.9
8:00	CW	The Flash [R]	1.11	0.4
9:00	CW	Arrow [R]	0.84	0.3
8:00	FOX	Bones (SP)	6.20	1.4	(1.9)	(2.1)
9:00	FOX	Sleepy Hollow (SP)	3.46	1.0	(1.5)	(1.7)
8:00	NBC	Heroes Reborn	5.00	1.6
9:00	NBC	The Blacklist (SP)	7.77	1.8	11.80(3.1)	12.79(3.4)
10:00	NBC	The Player	4.58	1.0

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

* - in millions