Streaming Soars vs. Year Ago on Paramount+ and CBS Digital Platforms

CBS was the #1 network for the night with 6.19 million viewers on its premiere Tuesday. The FBI, FBI: INTERNATIONAL and FBI: MOST WANTED block was +10% from its year ago Tuesday premieres and up +14% from the season finales. CBS topped second place ABC by +3.70 million, third place FOX by +4.21 million and fourth place NBC by +4.24 million viewers (more than 3x).

FBI (8:00 PM)

• Averaged 7.57 million viewers

• Up +16% from the year ago premiere

• Up +20% from the finale

• Up +11% from the 2023/24 season average

• FBI had a higher viewer average last night than any episode last season

FBI INTERNATIONAL (9:00 PM)

• Averaged 5.79 million viewers

• Up +9% from its year ago premiere

• Up +10% from the finale

• Up +7% from its year ago average

FBI: MOST WANTED (10:00 PM)

• Averaged 5.21 million viewers

• Up +2% from its year ago debut

• Up +11% from the finale

• Up+6% from its season average

STREAMING (Paramount+/CBS.com/CBS app)

• FBI up +37%*

• FBI: INTERNATIONAL up +44%*

• FBI: MOST WANTED up +45%*

*from their year ago premieres.

SOCIAL

• CBS’ Tuesday primetime premieres drove 114 million potential social impressions* last night

• FBI amassed 94 million*

• FBI: INTERNATIONAL drove 10 million*

• FBI: MOST WANTED garnered 9.4 million*

*Potential Impressions are the estimated number of people who might have viewed posts related to this topic. NetBase calculates potential impressions based on followers/fans of original posts and followers/fans of engagements.

MORE CBS RATINGS HIGHLIGHTS

LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT

• Monday night’s (Feb. 12) episode featuring guests John Oliver and Killer Mike delivered 2.288 million viewers, the highest L+SD average for any Monday night in over a year (2.421m on Jan. 23.) 

THE TALK

• The post-Super Bowl episode of THE TALK on Monday, Feb. 12 earned 1.66 million viewers and was its second most-watched show of the season. It was THE TALK’s best performance in Total Viewers since Tuesday, Jan. 16. Guests were Billy Gardell and Max Greenfield.

• For the Super Bowl week of Feb. 5 shows, THE TALK earned 1.37 million viewers, its best week since the week of Jan. 15, and was up +7% from last week.

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