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| rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.5/5 | 0.9/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 5.30 | 3.63 | 5.08 | 2.01 | 1.30 |
NBC's Friends With Benefits series finale night was up 0.2 ratings points in each half hour vs. last week, but it was Dateline's (which featured Tom Brokaw looking back at 9/11) 1.9 adults 18-49 rating (up sharply from last Friday's 1.2 rating) that clinched the adults 18-49 victory on the night for NBC.
Karaoke Battle USA was up a tenth of a point vs. last week to a 0.8 adults 18-49 rating was down 0.3 from last Friday. Earlier in the evening, a Shark Tank repeat lead the 8pm hour.
The only other new show on broadcast last night, CBS's 48 Hours Mystery drew a 0.9 adults 18-49 rating at 8pm
Overnight broadcast primetime ratings for Friday, September 9, 2011:
results via Marc Berman.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | ABC | Shark Tank -R | 1.1 | 4 | 4.01 |
| CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 0.9 | 3 | 4.99 | |
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares -R | 0.9 | 3 | 2.33 | |
| NBC | Friends With Benefits | 0.8 | 3 | 2.83 | |
| CW | Nikita -R | 0.4 | 2 | 1.46 | |
| 8:30PM | NBC | Friends With Benefits | 0.8 | 3 | 2.41 |
| 9:00PM | NBC | Dateline NBC (9-11p) | 1.9 | 6 | 6.64 |
| ABC | Karaoke Battle USA | 0.8 | 3 | 3.14 | |
| CBS | CSI: NY -R | 0.7 | 2 | 4.97 | |
| FOX | Fringe -R | 0.6 | 2 | 1.69 | |
| CW | Supernatural -R | 0.4 | 1 | 1.15 | |
| 10:00PM | ABC | 20/20 -R | 1.0 | 3 | 3.76 |
| CBS | Blue Bloods -R | 0.8 | 2 | 5.29 |
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NOTE: All ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.
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Definitions:
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. More information on ratings is available here.
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.)
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
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. 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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