Last night’s fast overnight ratings are in Via TVByTheNumbers
With American Idol, Fox easily won the night with adults 18-49 and total viewers. American Idol’s 6.9 rating was down 3% from last week, but the recent typical final adjustments are likely to increase that. At 9:30pm, Breaking In was up a tenth of a point vs. last week to a 2.6 rating.
According to FOX_Research, last night’s Top 6 episode was up 12% vs. last year’s Top 6 performance show, which had 19.4 million viewers. An average of 21.7 million viewers watched last night’s 90 minute American Idol episode.
Also, Idol is up 2% in total viewers vs. last year’s same telecasts (24.9m vs. 24.4m, comparable most current data)
An average of 6 million viewers watched the replay of The Voice premiere at 9 pm on NBC. It had a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating. Pretty impressive!
UPDATE: Final numbers are in via @Fox_Research:
Wednesday final ratings: Idol adjusted up to 7.1 (vs. 6.9) in A18-49 and 22.3m total viewers (vs. 21.7m)
Last night’s Idol now up +15% in total viewers vs. last year’s Top 6 perf show and +3% in A18-49