CBS almost had the night to itself.
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 and comparisons follow the chart.
CBS: NOTE: fast nationals may be inflated somewhat by local pre-emptions for NFL THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL in Tampa-St. Petersberg (WTSP) and St. Louis (KMOV). For now, THE BIG BANG THEORY (which aired a heavily hyped episode) is up 0.3 from last week, LIFE IN PIECES is up 0.6, MOM is up 0.4, 2 BROKE GIRLS is up 0.2, and ELEMENTARY is also up 0.2, so we’ll see how many of those gains survive to the end of the day.
ABC: After 90 minutes of reruns both holiday-themed (PREP AND LANDING specials at 0.8/0.9) and not (MODERN FAMILY at 0.9), the year’s BARBARA WALTERS 10 MOST FASCINATING PEOPLE special was at 1.0, down 0.4 from last year’s edition (which ran on a Sunday).
NBC: A pair of holiday rerun specials were at 0.5 (HOW MURRAY SAVED CHRISTMAS) and 0.6 (KELLY CLARKSON’S CAUTIONARY CHRISTMAS TALE), and then a RUNNING WILD that featured President Obama was at 0.9.
FOX: 0.5s for both AMERICAN COUNTRY COUNTDOWN TOP 10 STORIES OF 2015 and WORLD’S FUNNIEST.
CW: An IHEARTRADIO JINGLE BALL special at 0.4.
Only FOX airs regular programming tonight, against a mix of reruns and specials on the other networks. Cable features season finales for Syfy’s Z NATION and Cinemax’s THE KNICK.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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