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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon.-Tues., March 24-25) -- CBS/NBC split spoils

By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom on Twitter
Led as always by the unstoppable NCIS, CBS paced Tuesday’s prime-time Nielsens while ABC played dead with repeats and a new episode of Mind Games.

NCIS drew 461,585 D-FW viewers in the 7 p.m. hour, besting NBC’s results edition of The Voice (326,660). But the Peacock’s top-rated attraction again turned the tables with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, almost doubling the NCIS total in this key demographic.

CBS otherwise rolled to wins in both ratings measurements with its usual 8 to 10 p.m. lineup of NCIS: Los Angeles and Person of Interest.

ABC ran a very distant last all night among the Big Four broadcast networks. But even repeats of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife drew bigger crowds than a new 9 p.m. episode of the network’s Mind Games. It barely showed a pulse among 18-to-49-year-olds, with 6,513 viewers in this age range. The time slot winner, Person of Interest, had 87,931.

Also of note: The CW’s Supernatural slipped into fourth place at 8 p.m., beating The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife across the board.

On TNT, the Dallas Mavericks’ gutty overtime win against the Oklahoma City Thunder averaged 127,823 total viewers, with a peak crowd of 184,634 in the closing minutes. That was good enough to beat the second halves of all four local 10 p.m. newscasts.

On Monday night, NBC’s The Voice led from 7 to 9 p.m. in total viewers with 340,862. ABC’s competing two-hour Dancing with the Stars took the silver with 276,951 before its Castle and NBC’s The Blacklist tied in the 9 p.m. hour with 262,748 viewers apiece.

The Voice dominated the 18-to-49-year-olds ratings while CBS’ penultimate episode of How I Met Your Mother knocked Dancing into third place from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Fox’s The Following then rose up to take second place from 8 to 9 p.m. before Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast logged the most 18-to-49-year-olds in that hour by a slim margin over ABC’s competing Castle.

Here are the local news derby results:

Monday -- WFAA8 paced the 10 p.m. ratings in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.

Fox4 as usual swept the 6 a.m. competitions and added 5 and 6 p.m. wins in the 25-to-54 demographic.

Fox4, NBC5 and WFAA8 joined in a three-way tie for the most total viewers at 6 p.m. NBC5 won outright in that measurement at 5 p.m.

Tuesday -- CBS11 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. while NBC5 won among 25-to-54-year-olds.

Fox4 scored another doubleheader win at 6 a.m., with CBS11 uncommonly claiming bronzes in both measurements ahead of WFAA8.

WFAA8 and CBS11 tied for the most viewers at 6 p.m., but WFAA8 had the 25-to-54 gold to itself. Fox4 and NBC5 shared first place in total viewers at 5 p.m., with Fox4 alone atop the 25-to-54 standings.

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