- CBS' first Thursday Night Football (5.5) may have been a blowout, but it likely got a boost from the Ray Rice story that has dominated sports media over the last week. Most of the overnight HH comparisons seem to suggest this will adjust to somewhere in the 6's in the demo, which is probably better than can be expected on a weekly basis. (Though I'm not 100% sure we will see CBS-only numbers, since ads are being sold for the full simulcast rating with NFL Network.)
- UPDATE: As hinted in the preliminary update, the broadcast final number (7.5) is a sum of the CBS and NFLN numbers. You can figure out the CBS only portion by subtracting the NFLN-only rating (1.6), which will be available in cable finals. So it was about a 5.9 this time. I'm putting the 7.5 in my spreadsheet for viewing/competition purposes, but I will work on a way to use the CBS-only numbers when doing overall broadcast/network ratings.
- NBC began its fall entertainment roll-out with a former pro athlete-themed season of The Biggest Loser (1.6). That's a very respectable rating by NBC's recent Thursday standards, but it was 30% behind the 2.3 that kicked off last fall in October. (That season aired on Tuesday and likely benefited a bit from The Voice pre-tune.)
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| The Quest | 0.5 | 32% | +0% | +0.0 | n/a | 3/7 | n/a | +0% | -46% | 0.7 |
| Shark Tank (R) | 0.7 | 32% | -7% | -33% | 1.1 | |||||
| ABC: | -3% | -41% | ||||||||
| Thursday Night Football Kickoff | 3.4 | 41% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | +89% | +70% | 4.4 |
| Thursday Night Football | 7.5 | 46% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | +407% | +393% | 9.7 |
| CBS: | +345% | +326% | ||||||||
| The Biggest Loser | 1.6 | 38% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | -80% | +56% | 2.1 |
| The Secret Lives of Pets | 1.0 | 30% | n/a | -90% | +5% | 1.4 | ||||
| NBC: | -84% | +40% | ||||||||
| Hell's Kitchen (R) | 0.9 | 44% | +80% | -56% | 1.2 | |||||
| Bones (R) | 0.6 | 31% | +9% | -74% | 1.0 | |||||
| Fox: | +43% | -66% | ||||||||
| The Vampire Diaries (R) | 0.2 | 37% | +0% | +0% | 0.3 | |||||
| The Originals (R) | 0.2 | 45% | +0% | +100% | 0.3 | |||||
| CW: | +0% | +33% | ||||||||
| Big5: | -19% | +65% | ||||||||
KEY (click to expand)
A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.
Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes so far this season.
y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.
TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True - A metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. PRELIMINARY CALCULATION. For finals, see SpotVault.
(R) - Repeat.
Much more detail on these numbers at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page.
Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.
Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes so far this season.
y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.
TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True - A metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. PRELIMINARY CALCULATION. For finals, see SpotVault.
(R) - Repeat.
Much more detail on these numbers at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page.
More Spotted Ratings in the Index.
