Preliminary Ratings: Monday, 07/11/2016

ABC and NBC split leadership on Monday night, with ABC taking total viewers and the younger demos, while NBC is right behind in total audience levels and has a share in the A18-49 demo and takes the older, 25-54 demo.

THE BACHELORETTE and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR were back in original episodes, with ABC's datings series having the slide edges from 8 to 11 PM. THE BACHELORETTE dominates the younger viewers, scoring a 1.8 in the A18-34 demographic, but AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR catches up with the night's best 25-54 rating, a 2.2 score. An encore airing of SPARTAN, on NBC beat an original episode of MISTRESSES, on ABC, during the 10 PM hour.

FOX and CBS battled it out for a few remaining scraps. SYTYCD was the nights least watched original program, but did relatively better than CBS in the demographic ratings. Neither network looks good on the night.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	5.50 million	1.4	1.5	1.7
CBS	3.80 million	0.3	0.6	1.0
CW	1.00 million	0.2	0.3	0.4
FOX	2.80 million	0.6	0.7	0.9
NBC	5.30 million	1.0	1.5	1.9

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	The Bachelorette	6.70	1.8	1.9	2.1
10:00	ABC	Mistresses	3.10	0.6	0.8	0.9
8:00	CBS	Mom [R]	4.70	0.4	0.8	1.3
8:30	CBS	2 Broke Girls [R]	4.10	0.4	0.7	1.2
9:00	CBS	Scorpion [R]	3.90	0.3	0.6	1.0
10:00	CBS	Brain Dead	3.20	0.2	0.4	0.7
8:00	CW	Just for Laughs [R]	1.10	0.2	0.3	0.4
9:30	CW	Whose Line [R]	0.80	0.2	0.2	0.3
8:00	FOX	SYTYCD:TNG	2.80	0.6	0.7	0.9
8:00	NBC	American Ninja Warrior	6.20	1.1	1.7	2.2
10:00	NBC	Spartan [R]	3.50	0.8	1.1	1.3

* - viewers in millions