Overnight Ratings - Thursday 3/9/06

Last week's Fast Nationals came from Zap2it.com.
Rick Kissell at Variety.com supplied the viewers/adults data.

Last night's data from The Programming Insider: Friday 3/10/06
By Marc Berman

Overnight Ratings - Thursday 3/9/06

Metered Market Ratings

CBS: 13.8 rating/21 share (13.0/20)
FOX: 11.0/16 (11.8/18)
ABC: 5.4/8 (5.5/8)
NBC: 5.4/8 (6.9/11)
WB: 2.6/4 (2.1/3)
UPN: 1.7/3 (1.7/3)

-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Thursday, March 10, 2005):
Fox: +168, WB: +62, ABC: +17, CBS: -19, NBC: -32, UPN: -55

Fast National Ratings:

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 20.96 million (21.1)
FOX: 16.92 (20.2)
ABC: 7.24 (7.7)
NBC: 6.93 (10.8)
WB: 3.41 (3.1)
UPN: 2.13 (2.5)

-Adults 18-49:
FOX: 7.1/18 (8.0/19)
CBS: 6.9/18 (6.7/17)
NBC: 3.0/8 (4.5/11)
ABC: 2.4/6 (2.7/7)
WB: 1.4/4 (1.4/3)
UPN: 0.8/2 (1.0/3)

-Yesterday's Winners:
American Idol (Fox), CSI (CBS), Without A Trace (CBS)

-Honorable Mention:
Survivor Panama - Exile Island (CBS)

-Yesterday's Losers (excluding repeats)
Will & Grace (NBC), The O.C. (Fox), Primetime Live (ABC)

TD Note: The rating for last week's "Sweet Home Alabama" (5.8/9)
on ABC is only from 9-10PM.

8PM - FOX - "American Idol" - 16.4/25 (15.2/23)
CBS - "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island" - 9.3/14 (9.2/14)
ABC - "Bringing Down The House" - 5.3/8
("Sweet Home Alabama", 5.8/9)
NBC - "Will & Grace" (2 eps, repeat/new) - 4.5/7
("Deal or No Deal", 6.1/9)
UPN - "Everybody Hates Chris" (repeat) - 2.4/4
(new?, 2.3/4)
WB - "Smallville" (repeat) - 2.2/3 (no data)

8:30PM - UPN - "Love, Inc." (repeat) - 1.5/2
(new?, 1.6/2)

9PM - CBS - "CSI" - 17.9/26 (16.9/25)
NBC - "My Name Is Earl" (repeat) - 6.0/9
(new, 6.7/10)
FOX - "The O.C." - 5.5/8

Jude Cormier...

this is actually the highest rating The OC has gotten this season, correct?
And yet now, Berman decides to label it a loser......oy vey

("Skating With Celebrities", finale, 8.5/13)
WB - "Beauty and the Geek" - 2.9/4 (2.1/3)
UPN - "Eve" (repeat) - 1.5/2
(new, no data)

9:30PM - NBC - "The Office" (repeat) - 5.1/8
(new, 5.2/8)
UPN - "Cuts" (repeat) - 1.3/2
(new, no data)

10PM - CBS - "Without A Trace" - 14.4/23 (13.0/21)
NBC - "ER" (repeat) - 6.2/10
(new, 8.6/14)
ABC - "Primetime Live" - 5.5/9 (5.6/9)

Shows ranked by Adults 18-49:

FOX - "American Idol" - 10.6/27
CBS - "CSI" - 8.8/22
CBS - "Without A Trace" - 6.6/18
CBS - "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island" - 5.3/14
NBC - "My Name Is Earl" (repeat) - 4.1/10
FOX - "The O.C." - 3.5/9
NBC - "The Office" (repeat) - 3.5/9
NBC - "ER" (repeat) - 3.0/8
ABC - "Primetime Live" - 2.5/7
ABC - "Bringing Down The House" - 2.3/6
NBC - "Will & Grace" (2 eps, repeat/new) - 2.1/5
WB - "Beauty and the Geek" - 1.7/4
WB - "Smallville" (repeat) - 1.2/3
UPN - "Everybody Hates Chris" (repeat) - 1.1/3
UPN - "Cuts" (repeat) - 0.9/2
UPN - "Eve" (repeat) - 0.7/2
UPN - "Love, Inc." (repeat) - 0.6/2

Shows ranked in order of ratings:

CBS - "CSI" - 17.9/26 (27.20 million)
FOX - "American Idol" - 16.4/25 (26.29 million)
CBS - "Without A Trace" - 14.4/23 (20.33 million)
CBS - "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island" - 9.3/14 (15.33 million)
NBC - "ER" (repeat) - 6.2/10 (7.43 million)
NBC - "My Name Is Earl" (repeat) - 6.0/9 (8.76 million)
ABC - "Primetime Live" - 5.5/9 (7.03 million)
FOX - "The O.C." - 5.5/8 (7.44 million)
ABC - "Bringing Down The House" - 5.3/8 (7.34 million)
NBC - "The Office" (repeat) - 5.1/8 (7.02 million)
NBC - "Will & Grace" (2 eps, repeat/new) - 4.5/7 (5.46 million)
WB - "Beauty and the Geek" - 2.9/4 (3.76 million)
UPN - "Everybody Hates Chris" (repeat) - 2.4/4 (2.78 million)
WB - "Smallville" (repeat) - 2.2/3 (3.07 million)
UPN - "Eve" (repeat) - 1.5/2 (1.89 million)
UPN - "Love, Inc." (repeat) - 1.5/2 (1.86 million)
UPN - "Cuts" (repeat) - 1.3/2 (1.99 million)

Cheers,

TD (aka Rhonda)

Disco Duck and Fleetwood Mac
Coming out of my 8-track
Michael Jackson still was black
Those were the days
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