ABC rules New Year's Eve ratings

Fundamental steps 'Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve With Ryan Seacrest' beat the combined shipping of NBC, CBS and Fox. 4 decades on, Dick Clark and ABC continue being packing in television audiences on New Year's Eve -- accumulating their third straight year of viewership gains. The Alphabet devoted all primetime to New Year's festivities, plus a two-hour clips show of past musical performances, which momentum only elevated the net's ratings fortunes since the ball dropped in NY during the night time. ABC beat the combined ratings shipping of the Large Four rivals round the evening. According to preliminary Nielsen estimations, ABC's two-hour spec "New Year's Rockin' Eve: The 40th Anniversary Party" averaged a few.4 rating/9 participate grownups 18-49 and 8.3 million audiences overall -- easily beating the combined output for repeat programming on ABC, CBS and NBC. Show built with every half-hour, peaking at 9:30 p.m. getting a 3.3/12 inside the demo and 10.5 million total audiences. So the usual 10-11 p.m. a part of ABC's 12 ,. 31 festivities, "Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest," averaged a sizable 4.1/15 in 18-49 and 12.9 million audiences overall -Up by 46% inside the demo by 3.7 million total audiences versus. a year ago for your special's finest amounts since it opened up in 2000. Because 10 p.m. hour, ABC came greater than four occasions the rating for NBC's competing 10 p.m. program, "New Year's Eve With Carson Daly" (prelim .9/3 in 18-49, 3. million). Overall, ABC loved its finest-rated primetime Saturday in than couple of years -- since college football's Large 12 Championship game in December 2009. From 11:30 p.m. to a single:15 a.m., "Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" averaged a massive 7.4 rating in grownups 18-49 22.6 000 0000 audiences -- ABC's top scores for nearly any entertainment telecast since the Academy awards last winter. Detailed info wasn't designed for ABC's competition, but NBC's "New Year's Eve with Carson Daly" averaged a 4.3 household rating/10 participate the metered-market overnights from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., and Fox's new entry, "American Country New Year's Eve," did a few.Or4 from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. -- both well behind ABC's special, which did a ten.7/26. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com