Broadcast primetime live + same-day ratings for Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016
The numbers for Tuesday include a finale on NBC and improved showings from ABC’s comedies:
| Time | Show | Adults 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (millions) |
| 8 p.m. | NCIS (CBS) | 1.8/7 | 14.70 |
| The Voice (NBC) – Clip show | 1.7/6 | 8.85 | |
| The Middle (ABC) | 1.6/6 | 6.64 | |
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX) | 0.9/4 | 2.19 | |
| The Flash (The CW) – R | 0.3/1 | 0.97 | |
| 8:30 p.m. | American Housewife (ABC) | 1.5/5 | 5.57 |
| New Girl (FOX) | 0.8/3 | 1.71 | |
| 9 p.m. | The Voice (NBC) (9-11 p.m.) – F | 2.5/9 | 12.05 |
| Bull (CBS) | 1.4/5 | 11.56 | |
| Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) | 1.2/4 | 4.05 | |
| Scream Queens (FOX) | 0.5/2 | 1.18 | |
| Legends of Tomorrow (The CW) – R | 0.2/1 | 0.79 | |
| 9:30 p.m. | The Real O’Neals (ABC) | 0.9/4 | 3.30 |
| 10 p.m. | NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) | 1.2/4 | 9.96 |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) – R | 0.5/2 | 1.84 |
The finale of “The Voice” carried NBC to a ratings win Tuesday night. The two-hour show’s 2.5 rating in adults 18-49 was up 14 percent from the finale for its spring 2016 cycle (2.2) but down four tenths of a point from the fall 2015 finale’s 2.9, a drop of about 14 percent.
ABC’s comedies all improved on last week’s ratings, with “The Middle” (1.6) rising by two tenths of a point and “American Housewife” (1.5), “Fresh Off the Boat” (1.2) and “The Real O’Neals” (0.9) each adding a tenth.
“NCIS” scored a 1.8 for CBS, even with last week. “Bull” slipped a tenth to 1.4, and “NCIS: New Orleans” was steady at 1.2. FOX’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s” 0.9 was off 0.1 vs. a week ago, while “New Girl” (0.8) and “Scream Queens” (0.5) held.
Network averages:
| NBC | CBS | ABC | FOX | CW | |
| Adults 18-49 rating/share | 2.2/8 | 1.5/5 | 1.0/4 | 0.7/3 | 0.2/1 |
| Total Viewers (millions) | 10.98 | 12.07 | 3.87 | 1.56 | 0.88 |
Late-night metered market ratings (adults 18-49, households):
11:35 p.m.
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”: 0.8/5, 2.9/8
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”: 0.5/3, 2.6/7
“Jimmy Kimmel Live”: 0.5/3, 1.6/4
12:35 a.m.
“Late Night with Seth Meyers”: 0.4/3, 1.5/5
“The Late Late Show with James Corden”: 0.3/2, 1.3/5
“Nightline”: 0.3/2, 1.1/4
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.
