| Scoreboard | FOX | NBC | CBS | ABC | UNI | CW |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 2.3/7 | 2.3/7 | 2.2/6 | 1.9/5 | 1.5/4 | 0.4/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.2/7 | 1.8/6 | 1.1/4 | 1.1/4 | 1.5/5 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 5.401 | 6.678 | 12.406 | 8.702 | 3.702 | 0.959 |
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Fox and NBC tied at the top of the nights adults 18-49 ratings as Glee dropped three tenths of a point to a series low 2.4 adults 18-49 rating vs. last week's 2.7. New Girl was down a tenth to a 2.7 adults 18-49 rating vs. last week's 2.8 adults 18-49 rating. Raising Hope's season finale was up a tenth to a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating vs. last week's 1.8.
The Biggest Loser was up a tenth to a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating vs. last week's 2.1 adults 18-49 rating and The Voice results show fell two tenths to a 3.3 rating, from last week's 3.5 adults 18-49 rating. Fashion Star was down three tenths to a series low matching 1.5 rating vs. last week's 1.8 adults 18-49 rating.
NCIS was down a tenth to a season low 3.0 rating vs. last week's 3.1 adults 18-49 rating and was the only original episode on CBS Tuesday.
ABC's Last Man Standing was down two tenths to a season/series low 1.6 rating vs. last week's 1.8 adults 18-49 rating. Cougar Town was down a tenth to a series low matching 1.4 rating vs. last week's 1.5 adults 18-49 rating. Dancing with the Stars Results was up a tenth to a 2.4 rating, up off last week's results show series low 2.3 adults 18-49 rating. In its first Tuesday episode, Private Practice had a series low 1.7 adults 18-49, down four tenths vs. a 2.1 rating in its last new Thursday episode in mid-March, and two tenths vs. Body Of Proof's season finale 1.9 rating at 10pm last Tuesday.
The season (likely series) finale of Ringer drew a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating, up a tenth vs. last week's 0.4 adults 18-49 rating.
Late-night results are below the primetime data.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Tuesday, April 17, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | CBS | NCIS | 3.0 | 9 | 17.616 |
| FOX | Glee | 2.4 | 7 | 6.183 | |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | 2.2 | 7 | 6.872 | |
| ABC | Last Man Standing | 1.6 | 5 | 6.430 | |
| CW | 90210 -R | 0.3 | 1 | 0.762 | |
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| 8:30PM | ABC | Cougar Town | 1.4 | 4 | 4.618 |
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| 9:00PM | NBC | The Voice | 3.3 | 9 | 8.750 |
| FOX | New Girl | 2.7 | 7 | 5.308 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars Results | 2.4 | 6 | 13.799 | |
| CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles-R | 2.0 | 5 | 11.324 | |
| CW | Ringer | 0.5 | 1 | 1.156 | |
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| 9:30PM | FOX | Raising Hope | 1.9 | 5 | 3.932 |
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| 10:00PM | ABC | Private Practice | 1.7 | 5 | 6.784 |
| CBS | Unforgettable -R | 1.5 | 4 | 8.279 | |
| NBC | Fashion Star | 1.5 | 4 | 4.413 | |
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via NBC press note:
In Late-Night Metered Markets Tuesday night:
* In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.3/6 with an encore telecast; CBS's "Late
Show with David Letterman," 2.6/7 with an encore; and ABC's combo of
"Nightline," 3.3/8; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.9/6.* In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results
were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 0.8/4 with an encore; "Late
Show," 0.7/3 with an encore; "Nightline," 1.0/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel
Live," 0.5/3.* At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.2/4 in
metered-market household with an encore) tied CBS's first-run "Late Late
Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.2/4). In the 25 markets with Local People
Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49 with an encore) topped "Late Late
Show" (0.4/2).* At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.9/4 in
metered-market households with an encore and a 0.3/3 in adults 18-49 in
the 25 markets with local people meters.
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NOTE: All national ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.
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Definitions:
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.
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.
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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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In Ringer’s target (Woment 18-34), Ringer got a 0.7 rating. It’s doing just as well as Hellcats. Apparently Tuesday at 9 is one of the words timeslots on The CW. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings.aspx?id=broadcast_20120417
Private practice should have remained after Greys if ABC wants to keep those 2s ratings at 10pm. Scandal should move to tuesday.
“What were the HUT and PUT numbers for last night?”
18-49 PUT was 35.5 during primetime.
“and how do these numbers compare to prior years?”
Dunno.
lms and cougar town should both be canceled…even nbc’s tbl is pretty much kicking their butts…
IDK..I feel like Cougar town is safe for renewal and Happy Endings is the one in trouble..
Cougar Town is the only comedy that ABC own.. why would they cancell it when syndication is near?
Poor Ringer
@Dillan, not really. I don’t want to go into details because I don’t want to ruin the finale, for those that haven’t seen it. However, everything for the most part was revealed.
“In Ringer’s target (Woment 18-34), Ringer got a 0.7 rating.”
Yeah and a 0.7 is horrible, GG/HOD got a 1.1 in that demo this Monday.
Ringer was SO good last night. I know a second season will probably not happen but I am still hoping that it will. Crossing my fingers, knocking on wood and praying for a miracle to happen.
Wow, LMS has really fallen…..not a good sign.
ABC Tuesdays would improve if they pulled Cougar Town.
“IDK..I feel like Cougar town is safe for renewal and Happy Endings is the one in trouble..”
Cougar Town may be renewed, but there’s no way its chances are better than Happy Endings.
When Work It and Man Up were in the 8:30 slot, they were following a much stronger LMS. CT was only off .2 from LMS. If CT were following a stronger LMS, we’d see CT at renewable levels. This whole 8:00 DST/weaker LMS has really hurt and chance CT had this spring. ABC screwed up scheduling it all year and had to put it someplace. They should look at the quality of the show and give it a better chance to get back to season 2 levels next fall.
Halves
DWTS 2.2/2.6
PP 1.9/1.6
NCIS 2.8/3.2
NCIS:LA 2.1/1.9
Unforgettable 1.6/1.5
Big Loser 2.1/2.3
Voice 3.2/3.3
FS 1.6/1.5
Glee 2.4/2.4
Ringer .5/.5
I would give a final 13-episode season for Private Practice. Nothing ever works on that slot anyway.
Yay Glee had a series low!!
Its surprising that last season it was getting high 3′s and mid 4′s, so, its really down from last season.
NCIS had a season low as well. Why couldn’t CBS have aired that NYC22 pilot afrer an original NCIS, instead of a repeat of NCIS LA? They could’ve moved it after, to Sunday…
The Voice is already at low 3′s. Its exactly the same as last year, and its performing similarly to Xfactor. Some may say, NBC wasted the SB lead in, but anything on NBC gets cancelled anyway, and what else could they have put after the SB? Smash or Awake? Both those shows are failures. Well, Smash isn’t a failure, but its getting low ratings, with a big lead in.
LMS is getting such low ratings. I suppose since all 8pm shows are mostly down, that could explain the drop.
PP didn’t too well after DWTS. But, its retention of 71% isn’t bad.
…..Good bye….RINGER.
You where the best new drama of the year and you DESERVE another season.
I HATE THAT IT IS GONE!!!!
Looking at Bill’s last comment makes me wonder… Why instead of all those repeats we saw for the second half, don’t the networks just air their main shows until the end of March and then April-May to be for testing some pilots and different schedule plans for next year using repeats and not hurting ratings or fan-bases
Ringer was SO good last night! I’m sad to see it go but it was awesome while it lasted.
last year glee was at 3.7 and Ringer tie 0.5 Hellcats
I was happy with Ringer’s ending. There was a cliffhanger (but nothing I really cared about) and maybe some unresolved stuff at the end, but not much IMO. Enjoyed the music on Glee (Sat Night Fever soundtrack was the first music cassette I ever bought, lol) and enjoyed LMS and RH. RH’s season finale part 2 last night would have been fine as a series finale if it had not been renewed. Still have to see CT and NG online later. I might just start saving Glee to see online so I can watch/record the ABC comedies instead…tired of being late to CT all the time.