| Scoreboard | NBC | ABC | FOX | CBS | CW |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 1.2/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.1/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.5/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.821 | 4.524 | 3.647 | 5.418 | 1.490 |
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The Finder was up three tenths to a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating, vs. last week's series low 0.9 adults 18-49 rating. Fringe was up a tenth to a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating, versus last week's series low 0.9 rating.
Primetime: What Would You Do? was down a tenth vs. last week's 1.4 and was the only original episode on ABC
NBC's Grimm was down three tenths vs last week's 1.6 adults 18-49 rating. Dateline was up four tenths to a 1.4 adults 18-49 rating compared with last week's 1.0 18-49 rating.
CBS was all repeats for the evening.
The CW's Friday night returned from repeats this week. Nikita was even with its series low 0.4 adults 18-49 rating three weeks ago, while Supernatural fell back tenth to a series low matching 0.6 adults 18-49 rating, compared with the 0.7 rating in its last original episode.
Late night ratings below the primetime table.
Overnight broadcast primetime ratings for Friday, April 20, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | ABC | Shark Tank -R | 1.2 | 4 | 5.049 |
| FOX | The Finder | 1.2 | 4 | 4.206 | |
| CBS | Mike & Molly -R | 0.9 | 4 | 4.249 | |
| NBC | Who Do You Think You Are? -R | 0.8 | 3 | 4.194 | |
| CW | Nikita | 0.4 | 2 | 1.497 | |
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| 8:30PM | CBS | Rules of Engagement -R | 0.8 | 3 | 3.554 |
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| 9:00PM | NBC | Grimm | 1.3 | 4 | 4.462 |
| ABC | Primetime What Would You Do? | 1.3 | 4 | 4.383 | |
| FOX | Fringe | 1.0 | 3 | 3.089 | |
| CBS | CSI: NY -R | 0.8 | 3 | 6.169 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 0.6 | 2 | 1.484 | |
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| 10:00PM | NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.4 | 4 | 5.808 |
| ABC | 20/20 -R | 1.3 | 4 | 4.138 | |
| CBS | Blue Bloods -R | 0.8 | 3 | 6.182 | |
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via NBC press note:
In late-night metered-market households Friday night:
In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.4/6 with an encore telecast; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 1.9/5 with an encore; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 2.8/6; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.4/4 with an encore.
In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 0.7/3 with an encore; "Late Show," 0.4/2 with an encore; "Nightline," 0.8/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.5/2 with an encore.
At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.3/4 in metered-market household with an encore) beat CBS's first-run "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.1/3). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49 with an encore) topped "Late Late Show" (0.3/2).
At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.8/3 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2012 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
NOTE: All ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.
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.
For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.
@Justin121
The Finder is dead. Don’t get ya hopes up.
“Why can’t they collect money from Local advertisers then?”
Why can’t money grow on trees?
Yikes at 0.4 BYEEEEEEE Nikita!
The latest episode was really awesome. But, I don’t want Bobby to stick around for more time as a Spirit. I hope they would do something with something with character of Bobby.
@KS Do you not understand ratings at all? You watching Supernatural illegally doesn’t help the show – at best it doesn’t matter how many millions of people outside the US are ‘watching’. Advertisers are looking for a US audience in the 18-49 demo and that is what Nielsen measures.
The 10pm hour had higher overall 18-49 than the 9pm hour. Has this been the case most Fridays nights or just last night? I bet it rarely happens from Monday-Thursday and Sunday.
Gosh I actually enjoyed Supernatural last night! Too bad no one knew it was not a repeat! Hopefully it will get adjusted up on Monday!
There’s no question it would be better if Nielsen could measure everyone, but they can’t. This system is flawed but better than what they used to have. Deal with it.
Complaining about Nielsen is redundant imo… I don’t see anything new coming along for at least another 3 or 4 years. It is what it is.
Fringe please adjust up and …
Finder,… I don’t care (sorry Finder fans)
It’s amazing I’m posting more than @One on these comment threads… Unless he doesn’t care about Friday nights.
My Guess for the 2012-2013 CW Shedule:
MONDAYS:
8:00PM – Gossip Girl (13 Episodes order, Finale Season)
9:00PM – NEW DRAMA
TUESDAYS:
8:00PM – 90210
9:00PM – Ringer
WEDNESDAYS:
8:00PM – NEW REALITY
9:00PM – America’s Next Top Model
TUESDAYS:
8:00PM – The Vampire Diaries
9:00PM – NEW DRAMA
FRIDAYS:
8:00PM – Arrow
9:00PM – Supernatural
The CW will put ‘Arrow’ on the ‘Nikita’ timeslot to get a Strong Friday Night.
‘Ringer’ will get a Second Season because of the “Sarah Michelle Gellar factor” (like ‘Blue Blood’ with Tom Sellec) and because the Show have a big fan community all around the World.
‘Nikita’, ‘The Secret Circle’ and ‘Hart of Dixie’ will be canceled.
They can’t cancel ‘Supernatural’. It’s huge in Timbuktu.
Well… a bad day for ratings
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I’m more and more curious what shows CW will renew (no doubt about SPN, but Nikita is difficult. The total numbers are good though).
@AlcoholicsAnonymous:
You’re the only one. Fringe is amazing.
@Dean_W
I HOPE YOU’RE RIGHT ! I WANNA SEE RINGER Season 2 !
fringe sucks!!!!!!!!!
it seems tht Fringe might as well have shared some audience with Kitchen Nightmares, whereas it shares none with the Finder i’m afraid… The Finder has dragged Fringe down with it, and now a 1.2 lead-in cannot help.
@Gary
No, no it doesn’t
@Bill
In general, is 1.2 bad even for Fridays? Just curious.