| Scoreboard | ABC | CBS | FOX | NBC | CW |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 1.2/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.9/3 | 0.7/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.43 | 5.59 | 2.34 | 3.43 | 1.11 |
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ABC topped the adults 18-49 ratings on a pre-holiday Friday night of 100% repeats on broadcast.
Sorry, only half hourly ratings to report today, our summer weekend ratings source should kick in next weekend. In the meantime, averaging these half hours into ratings for each show will often lead to errors.
Overnight broadcast primetime ratings for Friday, May 25, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | ABC | Shark Tank -R | 1.0 | 4 | 4.56 |
| CBS | Undercover Boss -R | 0.9 | 4 | 4.46 | |
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares -R | 0.8 | 4 | 2.11 | |
| NBC | Who Do You Think You Are? -R | 0.5 | 2 | 3.07 | |
| CW | Nikita -R | 0.3 | 1 | 1.17 | |
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| 8:30PM | CBS | Undercover Boss -R | 1.1 | 4 | 5.19 |
| ABC | Shark Tank -R | 0.9 | 4 | 4.14 | |
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares -R | 0.9 | 4 | 2.20 | |
| NBC | Who Do You Think You Are? -R | 0.5 | 4 | 2.97 | |
| CW | Nikita -R | 0.2 | 1 | 0.99 | |
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| 9:00PM | ABC | Primetime: What Would You Do? -R | 1.1 | 4 | 3.78 |
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares -R | 0.9 | 3 | 2.43 | |
| CBS | CSI: NY -R | 0.8 | 3 | 5.31 | |
| NBC | Grimm -R | 0.6 | 2 | 2.81 | |
| CW | Supernatural -R | 0.4 | 1 | 1.20 | |
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| 9:30PM | ABC | Primetime: What Would You Do? -R | 1.3 | 5 | 4.18 |
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares -R | 1.0 | 3 | 2.62 | |
| CBS | CSI: NY -R | 0.9 | 3 | 5.80 | |
| NBC | Grimm -R | 0.6 | 2 | 2.72 | |
| CW | Supernatural -R | 0.4 | 1 | 1.08 | |
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| 10:00PM | ABC | 20/20 -R | 1.5 | 5 | 5.07 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC -R | 1.0 | 3 | 4.27 | |
| CBS | Blue Bloods -R | 0.9 | 3 | 6.24 | |
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| 10:30PM | ABC | 20/20 -R | 1.4 | 5 | 4.85 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC -R | 1.1 | 4 | 4.72 | |
| CBS | Blue Bloods -R | 0.9 | 3 | 6.52 | |
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Friday night's ratings via: TV Media Insights
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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.
Nikita
Shark Tank repeats very well. I usually hate reality shows, but that one intrigues the hell out of me and I’m glad it’s a success. I just wish they were pumping out enough episodes for marathon viewings. It’s that kind of show.
Supernatural is good.
Good repeat numbers for Supernatural this week!
Brazil loves Supernatural.
I like the half hour breakdown.
Would it be possible next tv season to post the half hour ratings breakdown in the overnight ratings??? Or would that be too much work for you?
Nikita done good for a repeat
so now you post rhe halves, when the season is over O_O
Supernatural 0.4 – Awesome! Here come’s season 9.
How can “Kitchen Nightmares” have a higher demo rating when its overnight viewer numbers were 1.73 millon fewer(4.31 milion) than “Who Do You Think You Are?”(6.04 million)?
What a awful night…
@hubert_wentland:
Just what I thought…
Good repeats ratings from SPN. It did the same as a Original nikita lol.
@ Ryan
Totally agree. I’m really into Shark Tank. Don’t know what it is about the show, but it’s compelling. ABC must love it, because it’s gotta be dirt cheap to make, and still draws well on a Friday.
@ Rich
First, you can’t add the viewership numbers together. The closest approximation would be to average them. And Kitchen Nightmares has a higher rating because it had more viewers in the 18-49 demographic range. We can also say that Kitchen Nightmare’s viewers skewed younger and WDYTYA’s viewers skewed older.
@ Liam
Somebody usually posts the half hours eventually in the comments, but it would be tough to post half hours in the table because the half hours don’t always allow you to correctly average what the overall show’s ratings would be, and thus would cause a lot of confusion and bad math. Half hours are best for seeing if a show’s viewership grew or fell over an hour or how an hourlong show did up against two half hour shows.
Like for instance, I find it interesting that CBS pulled away at the 8:30 half hour from ABC, but I don’t know if this has more to do with people leaving Shark Tank and watching Undercover Boss, or if the growth of UB has more to do with the continual rise in viewership CBS had throughout the night, which by itself is still a pretty impressive stat since after 9:30 half hour, which usually is the peak viewership half hour of television, overall viewership tends to decline.
wow shocked CW over a million
Joshua, first off its SUMMER and every single show was repeats. What do you expect?
I like how put the ratings every half hour. You should do that all the time.
so proud if spn!!!
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actually considering that Nikita’s new episodes were 0.4, it’s repeats could have been much worse.