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Signaling that “The Walking Dead” might have found its ratings peak, Sunday’s mid-season 4 finale enjoyed only modest growth over the prior week’s episode.<\/p>\n

According to AMC, the episode attracted 12.1 million viewers with 7.7 million (roughly a 6.1 rating) in the adults 18-49 demographic. Last week’s broadcast, which competed against a stronger football game and the highly rated American Music Awards and lacked the benefit of being a season finale, drew a contextually more impressive 5.7 rating with 11.3 million viewers.<\/p>\n

The midseason finale numbers display considerable declines from those of the season four premiere. That episode, a record for the series and AMC, posted an 8.2 with 16.1 million pairs of attentive eyeballs.<\/p>\n

Numbers for Sunday’s episode also trailed the season averages; to date, the premiere season four of “The Walking Dead” has averaged 13.0 million viewers (with 8.4 million in the 18-49 demographic) per week.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, Sunday’s “The Walking Dead” will again reign as the week’s top-rated scripted series. It also enjoyed gains of 15% in total viewers and 12% in the demo over last year’s fall finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1048,437],"tags":[671,969],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n"The Walking Dead" Ratings Get Slight Boost for Midseason Finale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Signaling that "The Walking Dead" might have found its ratings peak, Sunday's mid-season 4 finale enjoyed only modest growth over the prior week's\" \/>\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\/12\/02\/walking-dead-ratings-get-slight-boost-midseason-finale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""The Walking Dead" Ratings Get Slight Boost for Midseason Finale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Signaling that "The Walking Dead" might have found its ratings peak, Sunday's mid-season 4 finale enjoyed only modest growth over the prior week's\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/02\/walking-dead-ratings-get-slight-boost-midseason-finale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-02T21:20:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-12-02T21:24:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dolph Malone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\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\/12\/02\/walking-dead-ratings-get-slight-boost-midseason-finale\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/02\/walking-dead-ratings-get-slight-boost-midseason-finale\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"The Walking Dead\\\" Ratings Get Slight Boost for Midseason Finale\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-02T21:20:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-02T21:24:51+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b902f455f63156eaf34c503385466644\"},\"description\":\"Signaling that \\\"The Walking Dead\\\" might have found its ratings peak, Sunday's mid-season 4 finale enjoyed only modest growth over the prior week's\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/02\/walking-dead-ratings-get-slight-boost-midseason-finale\/\"]}]},{\"@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\/b902f455f63156eaf34c503385466644\",\"name\":\"Dolph Malone\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e959d88bf98ab21f00cf51ce0f4ce8f3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e959d88bf98ab21f00cf51ce0f4ce8f3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dolph Malone\"},\"description\":\"Dolph Malone is a senior editor for Headline Planet and a key contributor to the music and television sectors of the publication. 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