Wednesday Ratings: The Voice Beats The X Factor! (WTF???)

Crap! The Voice BEAT the 1st hour of The X Factor! People, you don’t know what you’re missing! The X Factor was definitely the better show. These are preliminary ratings. I’ll be updating with demos, etc all morning.

Fox led this second Wednesday in September care of the two-hour season-premiere of The X Factor, which scored a very respectable 6.7 rating/11 share in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. (peaking at a 7.5/12 at 9:30 p.m.). But compared to its year-ago series-opener (8.7/14 on Wednesday 9/21/11), this was down by 23 percent. And a one-hour edition of competing The Voice on NBC (7.3/13 from 8-9 p.m.) bested the first hour of The X Factor (6.1/10) by 20 percent. Given all the hoopla of Britney Spears and Demi Lovato joining the judges table, the initial sampling could of – and should of – been higher. Keep in mind, that the 8.7 in the overnights last year translated into 12.49 million viewers and a 4.4/12 among adults 18-49 (based on the Live Plus Same Day results).

At 9 p.m., The X Factor moved into the top spot, with a four percent advantage over America’s Got Talent on NBC (7.4/12 vs. 7.1/12, which was a season-high on the night for AGT), which concludes with a two-hour installment tonight. As a benchmark, here are the half-hour results for The X Factor:

The X Factor (Fox)
8:00 p.m.: 5.8/10 (#2)
8:30 p.m.: 6.4/10 (#2)
9:00 p.m.: 7.2/11 (#2)
9:30 p.m.: 7.5/12 (#1)

Via Marc Berman

Here’s some 18-49 numbers from Marc Berman

8:00 p.m.

ABC – The Middle (R)
Viewers: 3.71 million (#4), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#4)

CBS – Big Brother
Viewers: 6.40 million (#3), A18-49: 2.1/ 7 (#3)

NBC – The Voice
Viewers: 9.61 million (#1), A18-49: 2.9/10 (#1)

Fox – The X Factor (season premiere)
Viewers: 7.07 million (#2), A18-49: 2.6/ 9 (#2)

CW – Oh Sit!
Viewers: 1.01 million (#5), A18-49: 0.4/ 1 (#5)

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8:30 p.m.

ABC – Suburgatory (R)
Viewers: 3.01 million (#4), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#4)

CBS – Big Brother
Viewers: 5.84 million (#3), A18-49: 1.9/ 6 (#3)

NBC – The Voice
Viewers: 11.71 million (#1), A18-49: 3.7/11 (#1)

Fox – The X Factor (season premiere)
Viewers: 7.84 million (#2), A18-49: 2.9/ 9 (#2)

CW – Oh Sit!
Viewers: 853,000(#5), A18-49: 0.3/ 1 (#5)

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9:00 p.m.

ABC – Modern Family (R)
Viewers: 3.66 million (#4), A18-49: 1.3/ 4 (#3)

CBS – Criminal Minds (R)
Viewers: 5.28 million (#3), A18-49: 1.1/ 3 (#4)

NBC – America’s Got Talent
Viewers: 11.02 million (#1), A18-49: 3.0/ 9 (#2)

Fox – The X Factor
Viewers: 9.21 million (#2), A18-49: 3.7/11 (#1)

CW – Supernatural (R)
Viewers: 721,000 (#5), A18-49: 0.3/ 1 (#5)

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9:30 p.m.

ABC – Suburgatory (R)
Viewers: 2.75 million (#4), A18-49: 1.0/ 4 (#4)

CBS – Criminal Minds (R)
Viewers: 5.95 million (#3), A18-49: 1.13/ 3 (#3)

NBC – America’s Got Talent
Viewers: 11.00 million (#1), A18-49: 2.8/ 8 (#2)

Fox – The X Factor
Viewers: 9.76 million (#2), A18-49: 3.9/11 (#1)

CW – Supernatural (R)
Viewers: 673,000 (#5), A18-49: 0.3/ 1 (#5)

X Factor killed AGT in the demo.

From TV Line

For the night, both singing shows averaged a 3.3 demo rating. But in their shared hour at 8 o’clock, The Voice scored a 3.3 to X Factor‘s 2.7. And in total audience, NBC outdrew Fox 10.7 million viewers to 7.5 mil. That said, The Voice was down 6 and 17 percent from Night 2 of its three-part premiere week.

From TVByTheNumbers:

8:00PM
FOX The X Factor (8-10PM) 3.3 10 8.47
NBC The Voice 3.3 11 10.66
CBS Big Brother 2.0 6 6.12
ABC The Middle -R 0.9 3 3.71
CW Oh Sit! 0.4 1 0.93

8:30PM
ABC Suburgatory -R 0.9 3 3.01

9:00 PM
NBC America’s Got Talent 2.9 8 11.01
ABC Modern Family -R 1.3 4 3.66
CBS Criminal Minds -R 1.2 3 5.62
CW Supernatural -R 0.3 1 0.70

9:30PM
ABC Suburgatory -R 0.9 3 2.74

10:00PM NBC
Guys With Kids 2.2 6 6.28
CBS CSI -R 1.3 4 6.43
ABC Revenge -R 0.6 2 2.51
10:30PM NBC The New Normal -R 1.4 4 3.931

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