Final broadcast primetime live + same-day ratings for Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017
A pair of scripted shows had their adults 18-49 ratings come up a bit from Thursday’s preliminary numbers to the finals. “Gotham” (0.9) and “Supernatural” (0.7) each adjusted up a tenth of a point, drawing even with last week’s finals.
“Arrow,” meanwhile, adjusted down a tenth to 0.5, off 0.1 from its premiere last week.
CBS’ “Thursday Night Football” broadcast finishes with 14.38 million viewers and a 4.5 in adults 18-49 (including those who watched on the NFL Network). That’s off slightly from 14.59 million viewers and 4.6 last week. Digital viewing (Amazon Prime and CBS and NFL properties) pushed the total audience to 14.9 million.
Upward adjustments in adults 18-49 are in blue; downward adjustments are in red.
| Time | Show | Adults 18-49 rating/share |
Viewers (millions)
|
| 8 p.m. | NFL Thursday Night Kickoff (CBS) | 1.7/7 | 6.53 |
| It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (ABC) – S | 1.4/5 | 6.o2 | |
| Superstore (NBC) | 1.1/4 | 4.20 | |
| Gotham (FOX) | 0.9/3 | 2.75 | |
| Supernatural (The CW) | 0.7/3 | 1.90 | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Thursday Night Football (CBS) (8:30-11:30 p.m.) | 4.5/17 | 14.38 |
| Toy Story of Terror (ABC) – S | 1.1/4 | 4.70 | |
| The Good Place (NBC) | 1.1/4 | 3.92 | |
| 9 p.m. | Will & Grace (NBC) | 1.7/6 | 6.69 |
| Scandal (ABC) | 1.1/4 | 4.70 | |
| The Orville (FOX) – R | 0.6/2 | 2.11 | |
| Arrow (The CW) | 0.5/2 | 1.51 | |
| 9:30 p.m. | Great News (NBC) | 0.8/3 | 3.69 |
| 10 p.m. | Chicago Fire (NBC) | 1.1/4 | 6.35 |
| How to Get Away with Murder (ABC) | 0.9/4 | 3.56 |
Network averages:
| CBS | NBC | ABC | FOX | CW | |
| Adults 18-49 rating/share | 4.1/16 | 1.2/5 | 1.1/4 | 0.7/3 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (millions) | 13.26 | 5.20 | 4.54 | 2.43 | 1.70 |
Definitions:
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings are available at approximately 11 a.m. ET the day after telecast. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time.
Time Shifted Viewing: Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live +Same-Day and Live +7 Day. Time-shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+SD includes viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3 a.m. local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live +7 ratings include viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
Source: The Nielsen Company.
