TV ratings: ‘Sing-Off’ finale falls as Home Free named champions

The Season 4 finale of NBC’s revived musical competition “The Sing-Off” was down in the ratings compared with its last closer two years ago, according to early numbers from Nielsen.

The episode, which crowned country crooners Home Free as champions, drew an average of 5.19 million viewers over two hours and scored a rating of 1.3 in the key 18-49 age demographic. Among those advertiser-desired young adults, the rating fell 35% from last Monday and 19% from the show’s previous season finale.

However, this season concluded during the week of Christmas -- a considerably tougher challenge than the contest’s third cycle, which had its last episode in November. In the 18-49 demographic, “Sing-Off” tied CBS and ABC from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Otherwise, NBC aired a holiday “Hollywood Game Night” special to draw 3.5 million people and a 1.0 rating among 18- to 49-year-olds.

ABC and CBS were preempted by NFL coverage, so numbers for them are likely inaccurate.

ABC aired holiday specials “Shrek the Halls” and “A Chipmunk Christmas,” both of which earned a 1.2 rating in the young-adults demo. The finale of “The Great Christmas Light Fight” looks like it’s up from last week, based on the tentative Nielsen figures, to 5.3 million viewers and a 1.4 rating in the demo.

CBS and Fox ran all repeats.

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