| 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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Definitions:
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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.
Double checked. 20/20 and WWYD were definitely both new.
I’m bored, so here’s what The ABC Renew Cancel Index would be if it did summer realities:
Duets: 1.13
A 1.7 looks so much better compared to a 1.3 and a 1.5 
20/20: 1.00 (friday)
P:WWYD: 0.87 (friday)
NBC is SOOO dumb.. Would have EASILY won the night if they broadcasted Devils-Rangers – Game 6. They have their heads up their butts beyond hope.
Damn I wanted to catch up on Nikita and it was preempted here in NYC for a baseball game!
Nice photo!
Wow, SPN done repeated good this week. If it keeps that up, it may end up moving to its new Wednesday slot sooner than later.
Of course, those aren’t final numbers, but it’s never adjusted down yet this year, so….
go supernatural and nikita great repeat numbers for the cw
I wont be surprised if the CW’s Friday repeats do better than its summer programming.
Aww, thank you for the picture!
I’ve seen less than .5 for many Monday night nbc shows. I laugh at that though since I despise nbc.
i was just wondering which season of SPN did they repeat on the CW…
Lindsay Fang – what do you mean “what season did they repeat on the CW”?
On Friday, 5/25 The CW re-ran the S7 premiere episode 7.01 “Meet the New Boss”. Next Friday episode 7.16 is schedule to air, and the Nikita rerun is supposed to be preempted to encore the premiere of the new CW show, Breaking Pointe, and on 6/8/12 The CW is currently scheduled to air a repeat of Nikita (likely 2.02) and SPN, 7.02, Hello Cruel World.
Going by the results above, those are great repeat numbers for Supernatural.
I believe this was a holiday week-end in the USA, so the results are even better.
They beat some of the first airing ratings of other CW shows. Go SPN!
I don’t have The CW anymore!!
@DonnaT
Got it, thanks!