Preliminary Ratings: Wednesday 03/23/2016

For the second straight night, CBS sweeps the nightly ratings, with three of the four most watched programs and posting two of the three best A18-49 ratings, of the night. CB was boosted with a relatively strong showing by CRIMINAL MINDS, which was up almost one million viewers and 10% in the demo, over last week's ratings, and grew out of SURVIVOR. That is something CM has not done this spring. CM: BEYOND BORDERS was down in its second week, despite a stronger lead in performance. The new series dropped one tenth of a point in the A18-49 demo and lost 700,000 viewers.

ABC was a close second place, but a weak showing by NASHVILLE killed any hopes of winning the night. The veteran country drama was a distant 3rd (last) place in its 10 PM slot.

NBC edged out FOX for a distant third place showing. the time slot premiere of the new medical drama, HEARTBEAT, was four place finish, fifth in the key A18-34 demographic, in the 8 PM hour. That lead into weaker than usual performances by both LAW & ORDER and CHICAGO PD.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	6.00 million	1.0	1.6	2.1
CBS	9.20 million	1.1	1.9	2.6
CW	1.90 million	0.6	0.7	0.8
FOX	3.70 million	0.8	1.1	1.4
NBC	5.90 million	0.8	1.2	1.7

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	The Middle	7.15	0.9	1.7	2.4
8:30	ABC	The Goldbergs	6.60	1.1	1.9	2.5
9:00	ABC	Modern Family	7.70	1.5	2.4	3.1
9:30	ABC	Black-ish	6.10	1.2	1.9	2.4
10:00	ABC	Nashville	4.20	0.6	0.9	1.2
8:00	CBS	Survivor	9.20	1.2	2.0	2.9
9:00	CBS	Criminal Minds	10.70	1.2	2.1	3.0
10:00	CBS	Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders	7.60	0.8	1.5	2.0
8:00	CW	Arrow	2.10	0.6	0.7	0.9
9:00	CW	Supernatural	1.60	0.5	0.6	0.7
8:00	FOX	Rosewood	3.70	0.7	1.0	1.3
9:00	FOX	Hell's Kitchen	3.60	0.8	1.2	1.5
8:00	NBC	Heartbeat	5.30	0.5	0.9	1.3
10:00	NBC	Law & Order	6.10	1.0	1.5	1.9
10:30	NBC	Chicago PD	6.20	0.8	1.3	1.8

* - in millions