November sweeps

It delivered 6.01 million viewers for the month, its best November sweep delivery since the advent of people meters in 1987. The Charles Osgood-hosted program finishes the sweep as the top Sunday morning newscast.

Winners include music awards shows, veteran comedies, Scandal and CBS’s Wednesday. Losers: NBC’s Thursday, Nikita and most new shows.

With Sunday Night Football and The Voice, the adults 18-49 demo again belongs to NBC — while CBS tops in total viewers and Fox sees the biggest declines.

NBC is a few days away from wrapping up its second straight November sweeps victory. The network holds a solid lead over No. 2 CBS with just a few days left in the four-week period used to set ad rates for stations. NBC is averaging a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating and 7 share from Oct. 31 to Nov. 20.

ABC, the network that entered sweeps in fourth place among adults 18-49, has the early lead in the demo. During the first full week of sweeps, through Nov. 6, the most recent numbers available from Nielsen, ABC held a very narrow lead over second-place NBC, which has finished first among 18-49s all but one week this fall. ABC is averaging a 2.4 18-49 rating, with NBC right behind at 2.3. CBS is in third with a 2.2, and Fox trails in a distant fourth with a 1.3.

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Other strong performers in the month included Ellen, Maury, Katie, Judge Judy, ET, Family Feud, Big Bang Theory and Law & Order: SVU.

ABC’s Good Morning America has won its first television sweeps month in nearly 20 years, reflecting its newfound status as America’s No. 1 morning show. Nielsen ratings released today showed that GMA averaged 5.31 million viewers in November, 466,000 more than NBC’s Today show.

NBC easily won the November sweeps among adults 18-49, its first such victory in nine years. But the MVP of sweeps was on a different network. CBS’s The Big Bang Theory was one of the few programs to post a series high during the month, and it continues to power the network’s Thursday lineup, which is fighting with Fox for No. 1 on the night.

It’s been nine long years but NBC’s primetime lineup has made the network No. 1 in this year’s November sweeps. “This is the first time we’ve been this happy in a long time,” said NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt today. “It is possible to move the needle. There is a spring in our step,” he added.

NBC is basking in what appears to be its first November primetime TV sweeps win in nine years, though the sweeps period doesn’t officially end until Wednesday night and the numbers won’t be official for another week. Honchos at the perennially fourth-ranked broadcast TV network have followed the ratings with wide-eyed amazement, waiting for the bottom to fall out. But they have concluded over the last several days that it now appears too late for ABC, Fox and CBS to catch them.

It’s a sweeps month bonanza for Boston TV stations — the mammoth hurricane rocketing toward the East Coast is expected to draw big audiences during one of the most critical ratings periods of the year.

The duo top Dr. Phil by a tenth of a point, boosted by Philbin’s farewell. Anderson is the No. 1 freshman; Judge Judy, Wheel, ET, Two and a Half Men and Law & Order take top honors among courts, games, magazines, off-net sitcoms and off-net weekly hours, respectively.