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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.1/4 | 1.0/4 | 0.9/4 | 0.8/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.62 | 5.00 | 4.29 | 2.85 | 1.02 |
On a night filled with canceled shows, repeats and news magazines, NBC's Dateline was the top demo rated show on the night and propelled NBC to the Friday overal ratings win.
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| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer (repeat) | 1.1 | 5 | 4.97 |
| FOX | Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? | 1.0 | 4 | 4.88 | |
| NBC | Chopping Block | 0.7 | 3 | 2.28 | |
| ABC | Surviving Suburbia | 0.7 | 3 | 2.62 | |
| CW | Priviledged (repeat) | 0.4 | 2 | 0.97 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | The Goode Family | 0.5 | 2 | 1.63 |
| 9:00 | NBC | Dateline NBC (9-11p) | 1.4 | 5 | 5.59 |
| CBS | Flashpoint (repeat) | 1.0 | 4 | 5.16 | |
| FOX | Mental | 0.9 | 3 | 3.70 | |
| ABC | According to Jim (repeat x2) | 0.6 | 2 | 1.92 | |
| CW | Everybody Hates Chris (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 1.09 | |
| 9:30 | CW | The Game (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 1.06 |
| 10:00 | ABC | 20/20 | 1.1 | 4 | 4.52 |
| CBS | Numb3rs (repeat) | 0.8 | 3 | 4.90 |
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Here's the Dateline half hours from Marc Berman.
Dateline (NBC)
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 4.65 million (#2), A18-49: 1.1/ 4 (#1t)
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 5.82 million (#1), A18-49: 1.3/ 5 (#1)
10:00 p.m. – Viewers: 6.24 million (#1), A18-49: 1.5/ 5 (#1)
10:30 p.m. – Viewers: 6.44 million (#1), A18-49: 1.5/ 5 (#1)
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Shows are sorted from highest 18-49 rating to lowest in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source: Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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Chopping Block has been on NBC.com for awhile; not sure if that qualifies as a “(new to NBC.com)”
Dan, where do you see that in this post?
Are you perhaps referring to a past post with Law & Order: CI? In which case that episode was new to NBC.
I wonder how The Mentalist or NCIS would do on Fridays.
Sorry, I meant maybe you should add “(new to NBC)”. Weird territory of being an encore of an online presentation.
what happened on dateline last night
I still don’t understand why The Goode Family gets such low ratings. I mean, from the ratings it looks like people are actually watching Surviving Suburbia, turning off the TV when The Goode Family comes on and then turning the TV back on when According to Jim comes on.
Master, how about the simple answer? People don’t like the show.
I wonder how the Mentalist and NCIS will be doing in the demo two years from now? Probably Ghost Whisperer summer reruns numbers. ( And nobody will care about or remember this two years from now to prove me wrong.) My Friday night q. is: Is anybody at ABC or NBC smarter than a 5th grader?
People turn the tv back on for “according to jim” ? now thats a scary thought.
I actually like The Goode Family. It’s not “art,” but then not much on TV is.
However, it *is* infinitely better than the dreck that precedes (Surviving Suburbia) and follows it (According to Jim). But that’s the American public for you. Ratings rarely = quality.
cant wait for new seaons of Ghoast Wisper Numbers and Flashpoint
That family isn’t very Goode, is it?
I’d hate to be the (Mike) Judge who has to sentence this show to death…
…on the Chopping Block, this family won’t survive Suburbia, according to Jim, since the numb3rs do not add up at the flashpoint of overnight demos…
…and if it does, ABC will not be smarter than a 5th grader, and they will have lost the game, and NBC will be privileged to see this dateline:
“New York: Disney/ABC vision no longer 20/20; Ghost Whisperer goes Mental as Goode Family won’t shut up – and everyone hates Chris much less than they thought as a result…”
Any chance of The Goode Family returning next season?
^Slightly less chance than a snow ball has in hell.
My TV actually turns itself off when The Goode Family comes on. I guess it has standards.
Jane: I take it you have the HDTV equipped with the new beta version of the V-chip?
The problem is this – neither T:SCC, Dollhouse, nor Chuck fans will like it, as it also scans TVBTN for controversial subjects and slanging matches, detects the shows involved, and blocks them by turning itself off…
…come to think of it, no more Presidential press conferences
Any insights into the fate of Mental?? I have no interest in the show at all, but I’m just curious if anyone knows what Fox’s expectations were for it. Does it have a better chance of renewal as a summer series when compared with something like Goode Family?
The exile of Mental to Friday by Fox indicates to me that it’s a goner, but with summer shows it’s not nearly as clear cut as in the regular season.
Naah Mental is gone for sure, it’s too boring,