The hills were alive with the sound of football.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).
Ratings analysis follows the chart.
NBC: Even though last night’s preliminary 7.0 for SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was down 0.7 from last week’s early number, it was still up a big 1.9 from 2 weeks ago.
CBS: For the first time in 3 weeks, CBS had the late afternoon national NFL game, which pushed 60 MINUTES up a huge 1.6 from last week to 2.8 (although that was just steady with its rating the last time it had the football lead-in). NCIS: LA took last week off, but at 1.4 it was down 0.1 from 3 weeks ago. MADAM SECRETARY jumped 0.4 from last week to 1.1, which was also up 0.1 from 3 weeks ago, and ELEMENTARY was up 0.3 from last week to 0.9, which was up 0.2 from 3 weeks ago.
ABC: The year’s run of THE SOUND OF MUSIC was up 0.1 from last year to 1.1.
FOX: After 0.7 for something called the BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE, it was a night of reruns at 0.4-0.7.
Seasonal programming carries most of tonight’s line-ups, which includes a FAREWELL TO THE WHITE HOUSE Oprah Winfrey interview of Michelle Obama on CBS, the finale of GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT on ABC, and a special episode of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT on NBC.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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