A solid night for the long-running hits.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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.
ABC: THE BACHELORETTE was steady with last Thursday’s 1.6, but viewers hit their remotes as soon as it ended, with the COUNTRY STRONG special at 0.4.
CBS: After reruns at 0.4/0.5, FBI DECLASSIFIED held at 0.3.
NBC: THE VOICE gained 0.1 to 1.1, and THIS IS US was down 0.1 from its 2-hour season premiere to 1.3. TRANSPLANT returned from a 2-week break down 0.1 to 0.5.
FOX: After a rerun of COSMOS at 0.3, NEXT returned from 3 weeks off down 0.1 to 0.2.
CW: SWAMP THING lost 0.1 to 0.1, and TELL ME A STORY was steady at 0.1.
Tonight, NBC’s entire CHICAGO franchise returns, as does CBS’s SWAT. In addition, ABC airs the CMA AWARDS.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 live+same day ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on network affiliates in 210 U.S. markets from 8-11 pm Eastern & Pacific or 7-10 pm Central & Mountain. The numbers are some combination of the network schedule and any pre-emptions (such as local news or weather coverage). Accurate program ratings will be available this afternoon with the broadcast finals.
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