Preliminary Ratings: Tuesday 03/01/2016

For the second strait night, NBC sweeps the night, thanks to the return of THE VOICE, on Tuesday nights. The competition series hauled in another 12.4 million viewers and a 3.0 rating in Adults 18-49. THE VOICE is off roughly 10% from the previous night's season premiere numbers.

ABC had two season/series finales with THE MUPPETS and AGENT CARTER and neither of them did well. Both shows were 4th place in their respective time slots and failed to even draw three million viewers. THE MUPPETS has such huge potential for ABC/Disney, but poor execution of the concept killed the property, for TV, for many years to come.

Both NCIS series are down, week-to-week, but still put up competitive numbers. NCIS was still the most watched program and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS was #3 in total viewers.

FOX's comedy block is turning into quite the dud. Only NEW GIRL managed demo ratings over a 1.0 and none of the four could bring in three million viewers. The 9 PM shows failed to reach two million.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	2.50 million	0.4	0.7	0.9
CBS	10.60 million	0.9	1.5	2.2
CW	1.00 million	0.2	0.3	0.3
FOX	2.10 million	0.9	1.1	1.0
NBC	10.20 million	1.5	2.5	3.4

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	The Muppets (SF)	2.70	0.6	0.9	1.0
9:00	ABC	Marvel's Agent Carter (SF)	2.40	0.4	0.7	0.9
10:00	ABC	ABC News: Super Tuesday	2.30	0.3	0.6	0.8
8:00	CBS	NCIS	15.20	1.2	2.0	3.1
9:00	CBS	NCIS: New Orleans	11.50	0.9	1.6	2.3
10:00	CBS	CBS News Campaign 2016	5.00	0.5	0.8	1.1
8:00	CW	World Dog Awards [R]	1.00	0.2	0.3	0.3
8:00	FOX	New Girl	2.60	1.0	1.1	1.4
8:30	FOX	Grandfather	2.10	0.6	0.8	1.0
9:00	FOX	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	1.90	0.6	0.8	0.9
9:30	FOX	The Grinder	1.60	0.4	0.6	0.7
8:00	NBC	The Voice	12.40	1.8	3.0	4.2
10:00	NBC	NBC News: Super Tuesday	5.70	0.9	1.5	1.9

* - in millions