ABC rules New Year's Eve rankings

Basic steps 'Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve With Ryan Seacrest' beat the combined shipping of NBC, CBS and Fox. 40 years on, Dick Clark and ABC continue to be packing in television audiences on New Year's Eve -- accumulating their third straight year of viewership gains. The Alphabet devoted all primetime to New Year's festivities, together with a two-hour clips show of past musical performances, which momentum only increased the net's rankings fortunes because the ball dropped in NY at night time. ABC beat the combined rankings shipping of their Large Four rivals around the evening. Based on preliminary Nielsen estimations, ABC's two-hour spec "New Year's Rockin' Eve: The 40th Anniversary Party" averaged a couple.4 rating/9 be part of grown ups 18-49 and 8.3 million audiences overall -- easily beating the combined output for repeat programming on ABC, CBS and NBC. Show constructed with each half-hour, peaking at 9:30 p.m. having a 3.3/12 within the demo and 10.5 million total audiences. And so the usual 10-11 p.m. part of ABC's 12 ,. 31 festivities, "Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest," averaged a large 4.1/15 in 18-49 and 12.9 million audiences overall -Up by 46% within the demo by 3.7 million total audiences versus. this past year for that special's greatest amounts because it opened in 2000. For the reason that 10 p.m. hour, ABC came a lot more than four occasions the rating for NBC's competing 10 p.m. program, "New Year's Eve With Carson Daly" (prelim .9/3 in 18-49, 3. million). Overall, ABC loved its greatest-ranked primetime Saturday in additional than 2 yrs -- since college football's Large 12 Championship game in December 2009. From 11:30 p.m. to at least one:15 a.m., "Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" averaged an enormous 7.4 rating in grown ups 18-49 22.six million audiences -- ABC's top scores for just about any entertainment telecast because the Oscars last winter. Detailed info wasn't readily available for ABC's competition, but NBC's "New Year's Eve with Carson Daly" averaged a 4.3 household rating/10 be part of the metered-market overnights from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., and Fox's new entry, "American Country New Year's Eve," did a couple.Or4 from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. -- both well behind ABC's special, which did a ten.7/26. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com