The 2014-15 Climate Center: Networks

The Climate Center is the latest way to keep up with some of this site's bigger-picture numbers on a week-to-week basis. It provides a running track of trends across the broadcasters, including individual networks, genres, and days of week/time of day. These will include the numbers that have gone into the A18-49+ theme posts, plus some new ones.

The "Networks" post looks at some of the metrics that best get at the networks' actual strength, most importantly breaking the networks' overall averages apart by category and mostly focusing on only the original non-sports series.

These numbers are up to date through the end of the regular season: Wednesday, May 20.

More Climate Center: Basics | Networks | Genres | Days/Times

Last season's Networks.

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Network originals season-to-date (A18-49+):

Week	Ending	ABC	CBS	NBC	Fox	CW
1	9/28/2014	102	94	112	90	17
2	10/5/2014	103	97	115	81	23
3	10/12/2014	103	98	113	81	35
4	10/19/2014	102	98	113	82	38
5	10/26/2014	102	98	111	83	38
6	11/2/2014	102	99	109	82	38
7	11/9/2014	103	99	108	83	37
8	11/16/2014	103	98	108	84	38
9	11/23/2014	104	99	107	82	38
10	11/30/2014	105	99	107	82	38
11	12/7/2014	104	99	108	83	39
12	12/14/2014	103	100	107	83	41
13	12/21/2014	103	100	107	83	40
14	12/28/2014	103	100	107	83	40
15	1/4/2015	102	100	106	85	41
16	1/11/2015	101	101	105	88	40
17	1/18/2015	100	102	103	91	40
18	1/25/2015	100	102	102	93	41
19	2/1/2015	101	101	102	94	40
20	2/8/2015	102	102	101	93	41
21	2/15/2015	103	102	99	94	41
22	2/22/2015	103	101	98	95	41
23	3/1/2015	103	101	99	95	41
24	3/8/2015	103	100	99	96	41
25	3/15/2015	102	100	100	96	40
26	3/22/2015	102	100	100	97	40
27	3/29/2015	101.4	100.3	100.1	97.1	40.4
28	4/5/2015	101.4	100.3	100.1	97.0	40.9
29	4/12/2015	101.0	100.5	100.7	96.5	40.9
30	4/19/2015	101.0	100.8	100.7	96.0	40.7
31	4/26/2015	101.5	100.7	100.5	95.7	40.6
32	5/3/2015	101.9	100.5	100.4	95.3	40.5
33	5/10/2015	102.3	100.5	100.2	95.1	40.6
34	5/17/2015	102.7	100.3	100.0	94.8	40.7
35	5/24/2015	102.8	100.4	100.3	94.3	40.9
2013-14 Final		96	106	103	94	34

Networks season-to-date by genre:

A18-49 Ratings:

Genre		ABC	CBS	NBC	Fox	CW
Overall		1.62	1.75	1.97	1.46	0.55
Originals		1.73	1.69	1.69	1.59	0.69
Repeats		0.84	0.92	0.77	0.60	0.32
Sports		1.88	4.60	5.90	3.05	n/a
Specials		2.49	1.95	1.73	0.84	0.36
Movies		0.90	0.81	0.88	0.66	0.30

Real estate:

Genre		ABC	CBS	NBC	Fox	CW
Originals		70%	70%	60%	61%	63%
Repeats		14%	18%	19%	24%	26%
Sports		5%	7%	11%	10%	0%
Specials		7%	5%	8%	2%	7%
Movies		5%	1%	2%	3%	4%

A18-49+:

Genre	ABC	CBS	NBC	Fox
Overall	97	104	117	87
Original Series	103	100	100	94
Everything Else	82	113	142	76
Scripted Originals	107	103	81	93
Comedies	113	146	66	89
Dramas	105	95	85	96
Unscripted Originals	96	91	126	96
Reality	109	104	160	96
News	69	76	65	n/a

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Click to expand for more on the "climate" numbers used herein.

Network originals season-to-date - These numbers index the networks' averages in original non-sports series against the average for the big four networks combined. To help compare the network race to the previous season, also included are these same numbers as of the corresponding week last year, as well as the numbers from the end of last season. Why only original non-sports series? See here.

Network originals season-to-date by day of the week - To go deeper into the network race, this table breaks apart each network's collection of original non-sports series by day of the week. This helps to illustrate which networks are more balanced and which might be riding one or two strong shows/nights.

Networks season-to-date by genre - While we here at Spotted Ratings believe in evaluating networks based on the strength of their original series, not everyone in the media is so evolved. Most media compare networks based on their overall averages, baking in huge events like sports and awards shows. These tables help to break down exactly what goes into those numbers, listing both the ratings average for each network in each category as well as the percentage of the average (or the percentage of primetime real estate) that each category takes up.

• To keep the "Originals" ratings row consistent with how A18-49+ is calculated, everything is counted as full-length; in other words, an episode of The Mentalist that starts after 10:30 due to overrun still counts as a one-hour episode. However, the other "by genre" rows, including "Overall," are based on half-hour breakdowns that capture only what airs within the networks' normal definition of primetime. This paints a better picture of actual primetime ratings. (For example, an overrunning NFL game on 11/3/13 had a final rating for the whole game of 7.7, but the 7:00 and 7:30 ratings were 8.3 and 9.0. The 8.3 and 9.0 are what go into the "Sports" and "Overall" averages.)