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Update:<\/b> Fueled by heavy promotion and strong lead-in support from “The Voice” (4.9 rating, 14.7 million viewers), the premiere of NBC’s “The Blacklist” blew CBS’ “Hostages” out of the water.<\/p>\n

NBC’s James Spader vehicle garnered an impressive 3.8 adults 18-49 rating, down only slightly from last year’s “Revolution” premiere, with 12.6 million viewers.<\/p>\n

Strong in most respects, the one downside is that “The Blacklist” lost an ample amount of young adult viewers; it slipped from a 4.1 rating to a 3.5 at the halfway point. Inevitable, to a degree, given the percentage of uninterested “Voice” viewers who were present for the first few minutes of “Blacklist,” it is nevertheless an undesirable trending pattern.<\/p>\n

“Hostages,” meanwhile, stumbled out of the gate in all respects with a soft 1.8 rating and 7.48 million viewers. Its half hours clocked in at a 2.0 and 1.7.<\/em>
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In one of the strangest scheduling moves of the season, CBS opted to position its aggressively-hyped limited series “Hostages” against NBC’s hotly-anticipated “The Blacklist.”<\/p>\n

It is surely regretting that decision.<\/p>\n

Based on the overnight metered market ratings, “The Blacklist” won in a landslide. Leading out of a predictably-strong “The Voice” (9.2), “Blacklist” garnered a 8.0 metered market number.<\/p>\n

A slight improvement over the premiere for last year’s “Revolution,” which drew a 7.9 in the overnights, “Blacklist”‘s number easily topped the 5.1 for CBS’ “Hostages.”<\/p>\n

To the credit of the CBS thriller, it received only modest lead-in support from heavily-hyped new comedy “Mom” (5.5). But given its difference in target audience, CBS was certainly counting on “Hostages” to be something of a self-starter, and its middling Monday performance reveals it was not up to the task.<\/p>\n

While these numbers reflect rough household ratings, the differential in adults 18-49 is expected to be at least as favorable for “The Blacklist.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,437],"tags":[275,282,210,252],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n"The Blacklist" Ratings Dominate "Hostages" on Premiere Night<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: Fueled by heavy promotion and strong lead-in support from "The Voice" (4.9 rating, 14.7 million viewers), the premiere of NBC's "The Blacklist"\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/24\/the-blacklist-ratings-dominate-hostages-on-premiere-night\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""The Blacklist" Ratings Dominate "Hostages" on Premiere Night\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Update: Fueled by heavy promotion and strong lead-in support from "The Voice" (4.9 rating, 14.7 million viewers), the premiere of NBC's "The Blacklist"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/24\/the-blacklist-ratings-dominate-hostages-on-premiere-night\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-24T13:23:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-09-24T15:26:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/24\/the-blacklist-ratings-dominate-hostages-on-premiere-night\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/24\/the-blacklist-ratings-dominate-hostages-on-premiere-night\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"The Blacklist\\\" Ratings Dominate \\\"Hostages\\\" on Premiere Night\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-24T13:23:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-09-24T15:26:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Update: Fueled by heavy promotion and strong lead-in support from \\\"The Voice\\\" (4.9 rating, 14.7 million viewers), the premiere of NBC's \\\"The Blacklist\\\"\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/24\/the-blacklist-ratings-dominate-hostages-on-premiere-night\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News & Charts, TV News & Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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