Thursday, July 4, 2013 ratings — New Episodes: none. Specials: Macy’s 4th of July Spectacular. Reruns: Hell’s Kitchen, Wipeout, Motive, Rookie Blue, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Person of Interest, Elementary, The Vampire Diaries, and Beauty And The Beast.
ABC
8pm – Wipeout: (rerun) 0.4 in the demo with 2.04 million.
9pm – Motive: (rerun) 0.4 in the demo with 2.03 million.
10pm – Rookie Blue: (rerun) 0.5 in the demo with 2.53 million.
CBS
8pm – The Big Bang Theory: (rerun) 1.2 in the demo with 5.41 million.
8:30pm – Two and a Half Men: (rerun) 0.9 in the demo with 4.22 million.
9pm – Person of Interest: (rerun) 0.6 in the demo with 4.08 million.
10pm – Elementary: (rerun) 0.6 in the demo with 4.10 million.
The CW:
8pm – The Vampire Diaries: (rerun) 0.2 in the demo with 0.63 million.
9pm – Beauty and the Beast: (rerun) 0.1 in the demo with 0.46 million.
FOX
8pm – Hell’s Kitchen: (rerun) 0.6 in the demo with 1.87 million.
9pm – Hell’s Kitchen: (rerun) 0.6 in the demo with 1.79 million.
NBC
8pm – Macy’s 4th of July Spectacular: (special) 1.5 in the demo with 7.10 million.
10pm – Macy’s 4th of July Spectacular: (special, rerun) 1.3 in the demo with 5.49 million.
These are the fast affiliate ratings. The “demo” refers to the viewers in the 18-49 demographic. The percentages represent the change since the previous original episode. (Percentages aren’t given for reruns or specials.) “Million” refers to the total number of viewers.
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What were you watching last night? Some original episodes, reruns, or something better?
I agree 100 percent. Macy’s choice of music was abysmal. Instead of the appropriate patriotic music they played really bad pop music. Four Usher songs? Really? I guess their new target demographic is 14 year old little girls. Was it America’s birthday or Ushers? Next thing you know, Jay-zee will replace Santa Claus at the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Ouch!
A Capitol Fourth on PBS was much better than Macy’s. You would think that for the Macy’s fireworks that they would have dubbed in patriotic music – not the crap you can hear on the radio any day that detracted from the show. I turned off the volume, put on my own music and watched the show.
I agree and I thought exactly the same thing. A Capitol Fourth was much, much better than Macy’s; so much so, that instead of watching Macy’s rerun at 10, we switched back & watched the rerun of A Capitol Fourth. As you said, Macy’s lack of patriotic music was off-putting. Even my 16 year old, who loves pop punk, agreed that the music on Macy’s show was crap! We did really miss Pops Goes the Fourth with the Boston Pops this year though. It too was far superior to Macy’s. Unfortunately CBS disagreed and dumped them. The Boston Pops show… Read more »