The Voice

In a battle of reality competitions, NBC’s The Voice finished first on Monday among viewers 18-49, while the season premiere of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars topped the night among households. The Voice averaged a 4.0 adults 18-49 rating from 8 to 10 p.m., according to Nielsen overnights, the top program of the night in the demo and up 8 percent from a 3.7 last week.

The Voice remained nearly as strong in week two as it was in week one. The NBC reality show posted a 4.5 adults 18-49 rating from 8 to 10 p.m. last night, down only 4% from last week’s season premiere. The show dominated each half hour, peaking with a 4.9 from 9:30 to 10. NBC won all six half hours on the night.

The Voice returned to big numbers last night, though not quite as big as last fall’s debut. The hit NBC singing show posted a 4.7 adults 18-49 rating in its sixth-season premiere from 8 to 10 p.m. Monday night. That was down 8% from its fifth-season premiere in September, but up 18% from the show’s fall finale in December. It was also a tenth behind the fourth-season premiere last spring, which posted a 4.8. The show was easily the highest-rated program of the night on broadcast.

Twitter and its users took control of NBC last night in the final minutes of the network’s hit reality competition series The Voice, ushering in a new era of television viewer connectivity and quite likely changing the way other broadcast networks will look at their signature competition hits.

The singing competition helped NBC capture a 4.0 rating among 18-49s and an 11 share. ABC’s “S.H.I.E.LD.” got off to a monstrous start at 8p.m. with a 4.6, according to Nielsen data, and helped lead-out “The Goldbergs” to a 3.2, making it the top comedy debut this season and best for any ABC sitcom in two years. CBS tied with ABC for second place behind “NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles,” while Fox, which kicked off its premieres last week, suffered from the strong comptition.

The singing competition helped NBC dominate Monday night, with a 4.6 in the key 18-49 demographic, which helped lift the network’s new drama “The Blacklist” at 10 p.m. “Hostages,” CBS’s 10 p.m. show didn’t have a strong showing with a 1.8. ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” fell 26% from last week’s debut to a 2.3, but “Castle” grew 5% to a 2.2 at 10 p.m.

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After a scheduling move by NBC pitted the network’s The Voice and Fox’s The X Factor during their premiere week, the two singing competition series will go head-to-head again on Tuesday after Fox rescheduled Wednesday night’s episode because of baseball rain delay.

NBC affiliates can bank on having The Voice on their primetime schedules next year. The network has renewed the hit show for two more cycles.

They will replace Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green on the NBC show. Aguilera has made no secret of her desire to sit out the fourth cycle of the hit singing competition show.

Facebook’s “timeline” app will let viewers cast votes for Voice singers and connect with friends and others watching the show, NBC and Facebook said Friday.

Having started its battle rounds this week, NBC’s The Voice will expand to two nights for the live shows starting on April 2. Live performance shows will air for two hours on Mondays, with the eliminations announced during a one-hour results show airing Tuesdays, both starting at 8 p.m.

Having the top show on television presents a rare opportunity for any network, but especially NBC, which has been so far behind for so long.

Television’s No. 1 program is showing signs of audience fatigue as American Idol begins its 11th season in a glutted market that includes The X Factor and The Voice.

As American Idol begins its new season on Fox on Wednesday, it faces competitors in The X Factor, also on Fox, and The Voice on NBC. The new test is this: Will viewers still gravitate to Idol in the same numbers when they know there are two prominent alternatives?

NBC’s fall schedule has been a disaster, even under the promising leadership of new NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt. But going into midseason there is some hope for NBC based largely on two music-themed shows, the new drama Smash, about the making of a Broadway musical, and the second-year reality program The Voice, which was a surprise hit last fall.

NBC’s The Voice has been airing live episodes (East Coast) as it nears its season finale tonight, and the show is featuring a social media room to shine a spotlight on live Twitter reaction. Hosted by “social media guru” Alison Haislip — sporting a phone, then a tablet — the room features live tweets on the bottom of the screen and monitors in the background.

The Voice drew a big audience for its penultimate episode last night, lifting NBC to a dominant victory in primetime. Voice averaged a 4.3 adults 18-49 rating from 9 to 11 p.m., even to last week and easily the night’s top-rated show. Among total viewers the show drew 12.5 million, its best audience since May 31.

The fourth-place network has a big, flashy hit (finally) as NBC’s execs, talent and producers open up about the drama behind the talent show’s making, why it works and how the Peacock could use this to plume its feathers once again.

On Tuesday nights there is NBC and there is everyone else. The network earned another dominant victory last night with the combination of America’s Got Talent and The Voice, by far the top two shows of the summer. NBC averaged a 4.1 adults 18-49 rating and 12 share, more than double the night’s No. 2 network, Fox, with a 1.5/5.

Opposite another highly rated NBA finals game, NBC’s The Voice and America’s Got Talent held up well in their second week together. NBC averaged a 4.2 adults 18-49 rating for the two programs, down from last week but still easily the night’s highest-rated non-sports shows. In fact, they’ll probably be the week’s highest-rated non-sports shows as well.

Twitter chitchat and a team format are giving NBC’s The Voice a boost in the ratings.

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The network will begin airing two-hour live episodes of the series on Tuesdays, from June 7 to June 28. The jumbo-size episodes will air from 9 to 11 p.m. ET, following America’s Got Talent, which debuts on May 31.

After growing in week two, NBC’s The Voice took a tumble in week three when it pulled back from two hours to one. Voice was still easily the night’s No. 1 show, and it completely dominated its 10 p.m. timeslot. But it may have lost some viewers who did not realize it started at 10 rather than 9. Voice averaged a 4.6 adults 18-49 rating, down 19% from a 5.7 last week from 9 to 11.

The network’s new talent show, had an audience of 12.6 million viewers for its second episode last week. That was up 7% from its premiere, making it the first new series on the four biggest broadcast networks this season to have more viewers for its second week than it did the first.

It seems broadcast finally has a hit new show this season. NBC’s The Voice grew even stronger in its second week following an impressive debut, becoming the night’s top show and besting Fox’s hit Glee, the evening’s No. 2 show, by 56%. Voice averaged a 5.6 adults 18-49 rating from 9 to 11 p.m., up 10% from last week, when it became the No. 1 new show of the season. Voice also drew 12.4 million total viewers.