Nielsen Ratings for the Week of October 7, 2013: Football and Baseball Lift Fox

FOX managed to land in third place among the broadcast networks for the week of October 7, courtesy of football, baseball and its Monday night line-up of Bones and Sleepy Hollow. While trailing CBS and NBC, FOX snuck past ABC, which has work to do on Sunday nights with the declining Once Upon a Time and Revenge. Both series have seen noticeable viewer erosion since last year. Even veteran America's Funniest Home Videos was down, but when competing against a football overrun that is to be expected. Of course, all three series fared better than Betrayal, which scored less than three million viewers and will likely be cancelled any minute now.

NBC's combination of Sunday Night Football and The Voice helped the Peacock network to a second place finish, along with new entry The Blacklist, which continues to impress. The reliable NCIS franchise, The Big Bang Theory and The Millers helped CBS to another first place finish, but the Eye network has much work to do to revamp Monday evenings and may want to take a closer look at Sunday, considering its aging dramas. The CW fared better now that most of its fall line-up is in place, but the once mighty The Vampire Diaries is now the fourth highest rated series on the network, which is concerning. Arrow, new entry The Tomorrow People and the long running Supernatural were the network's top rated programs for the week.

Ratings for the week of October 7, 2013 (courtesy of Nielsen Media Research)

Total Average Viewers (in millions) by Network:
CBS - 9.22
NBC - 8.44
FOX - 7.49
ABC - 6.98
The CW - 1.69

Top 30 Shows (viewers in millions):

1. NBC Sunday Night Football (NBC) - 22.07
2. NCIS (CBS) - 18.33
3. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 17.64
4. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick (NBC) - 16.02
5. NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) - 14.84
6. The Voice (NBC-Monday) - 14.64
7. The OT (FOX) - 14.11
8. Dancing with the Stars (ABC) - 13.00
9. Football Night in America Part 3 (NBC) - 11.78
10. The Millers (CBS) - 11.73
11. Person of Interest (CBS) - 11.65
12. The Blacklist (NBC) - 11.18
13. Criminal Minds (CBS) - 10.98
14. FOX MLB ALCS Game 2 Pregame (FOX) (s) - 10.88
15. Modern Family (ABC) - 10.64
16. 60 Minutes (CBS) - 10.62
17. Blue Bloods (CBS) - 10.56
18. Castle (ABC) - 10.51
19. The Voice (NBC-Tuesday) - 10.20
20. The Crazy Ones (CBS) - 9.69
21. Survivor (CBS) - 9.60
22. The Mentalist (CBS) - 9.39
23. Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) - 9.24
24. Two and a Half Men (CBS) - 9.14
25. Elementary (CBS) - 9.06
26. Scandal (ABC) - 9.01
27. CSI (CBS) - 8.82
28. Grey's Anatomy (ABC) - 8.79
29. The Good Wife (CBS) - 8.46
30. FOX MLB ALCS Game 2 (FOX) (s) - 8.35


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