Final Broadcast Ratings: November 26, 2014

One of the very best holiday classics, A CHARLIE BROWN THANKS GIVING, not only won it's time slot in the A18-49 ratings, it beat an original episode of SURVIVOR. The 2.2 rating tied CRIMINAL MINDS for the best of the night. It is too bad that ABC did not capitalize on the great lead in with original episodes of MODERN FAMILY and BLACK-ISH and the higher ad rates that could have come with them.

CBS was the top network of the night, winning two of the three hours. CRIMINAL MINDS was the most watched show of the night, getting 11.0 million viewers, topping viewership from the week before. Who says no one watches TV the night before Thanksgiving? You just have to give the audience what they want.

FOX and NBC battled it out for third place and trying to keep ahead of the CW. NBC's MAKING OF PETER PAN LIVE tied the CW's annual airing of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES, a 27 year old theatrical (classic) movie, in the A18-49 ratings, with a 0.6. FOX was able to stay above the CW as RED BAND SOCIETY commanded a 0.7 rating, for an original episode.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

ABC - 5.2 million viewers, 1.4 rating in A18-49

CBS - 9.4 million viewers, 2.0 rating in A18-49

CW - 0.0 million viewers, 0.0 rating in A18-49

FOX - 2.4 million viewers, 1.0 rating in A18-49

NBC - 15.6 million viewers, 5.4 rating in A18-49

Time	Net	Program	P2+*	A18-49	+/-
8:00	ABC	Charlie Brown Thanksgiving	8.13	2.2
9:00	ABC	Modern Family [R]	5.36	1.5	-34%
9:30	ABC	Black-ish [R]	4.30	1.2	-20%
10:00	ABC	Nashville	2.66	0.6	-38%
8:00	CBS	Survivor	8.90	2.1
9:00	CBS	Criminal Minds	11.00	2.2	24%
10:00	CBS	Stalker	8.26	1.6	-25%
8:00	CW	Movie: Planes, Trains Automobiles	2.06	0.6
8:00	FOX	Hell's Kitchen	3.48	1.1
9:00	FOX	Red Band Society	2.46	0.7	-29%
8:00	NBC	Making of Peter Pan Live	3.02	0.6
9:00	NBC	SNL Thanksgiving [R]	4.07	1.1	35%

* - total viewers, in millions