TV Ratings Friday: '20/20' Leads 'Dateline' + Coverage of Aurora Shooting

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In late-night metered-market households Friday night: 

*	In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.7/7; CBS's "Late Show with David
Letterman," 1.9/5; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 3.3/8; and "Jimmy
Kimmel Live," 1.6/4 with an encore.  

*	In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results
were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 0.9/4; "Late Show," 0.4/2;
"Nightline," 1.1/5; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.6/3 with an encore.

*	At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.4/4 in
metered-market households) beat CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig
Ferguson" (1.0/3).  In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late
Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49) 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.

(36) Comments - Add Yours!

1. Joseph

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 2:18 PM

   I wasn’t near a TV set, so I wonder if NBC devoted all two hours of “Dateline” to coverage of the Aurora massacre.

2. Austin Lauran

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM

   @potato

   Not everybody hates Whitney. If they did, it wouldn’t be getting any viewers. At least a certain amount of people like the show.

   By the way, has any show on CBS, Fox, ABC, or NBC ever gotten 0 viewers or at least something close to that?

3. rob60990

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 3:22 PM

   Wow, says a lot about Community when it ties a repeat of flop Nikita. This show seriously has no future in syndication. I expect it to be pulled quickly.

4. Nick

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 4:57 PM

   Whitney is the only show On NBC I actually watch. It appears to be doing well, but the big test is when it goes up against the similarly older-skewing Last Man Standing (which will probably excel on Fridays, when it was crushed by NCIS on Tuesdays).
   I know I will be taking out the DVD from my local library because I’ll be watching LMS, recording Touch, and watching a ton of other things via online streaming.

5. Craig Debolt

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 5:02 PM

   NBC expanded Dateline and sandwiched an already planned show in between updates and story on Aurora. The first five minutes or so were all live from Aurora then scheduled show then cut ins and then full live last hour from Aurora.

6. Oliver

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 5:42 PM

   Whitney was always going to repeat relatively well. It’s an old-skewing multi-camera sitcom.

   Community doing badly on Friday isn’t exactly surprising either. Young-skewing shows generally repeat badly and struggle on Friday. You’d also reasonably expect that Community’s young-male-skewing demographic would be more inclined to see TKDR (as opposed to Whitney’s older, female-skewing demographic). When you’re talking such low ratings, anything can cause a blip in the dial.

   Besides, 0.1 is well within the margin of error. The increase both shows got last week could just be the other side of the curve.

   Whitney and Community are both pre-empted for The Olympics for the next few weeks.

7. Nick

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 6:01 PM

   @Austin Lauran
   Doubtful. We’re still waiting for a CW repeat to hit 0.0 18-49 and a 0 ratings share. I don’t think anything on the big Four has hit under 0.2 and 0.5 million viewers.

8. Aaron Miles

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 8:32 PM

   @ John A

   I know right New Girl is a loser repeater too, wasn’t Whitney doing better than it? FOX is slowly falling off the radar.

   @ Potato

   Aint nobody hated Whitney since last fall when it first came out, once the show came of age in January people started liking it that’s why its NBC’s most watched comedy repeater right now.

9. Aaron Miles

   Posted July 21, 2012 at 8:37 PM

   @ Austin Lauran

   True dat!

   @ Nick

   That’s going to be an interesting battle on Fridays. I think one of the two lineups will be different come November. Either LMS and Reba are moving to Tuesdays or Guys with Kids is joining on Fridays or Whitney is joining Guys with Kids on Wednesdays.

   @ Oliver

   Community needs to move to Wednesdays or Thursdays because its too young skewing and not old skewing enough to survive on Fridays. Community is kind of getting exposed here on how weak of a ratings draw it is. NBC needs more programs that can be multi-dimensional like Whitney is where it can do well no matter where you put it.

10. davie

    Posted July 22, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    @rob60990

    Community has already been bought into syndication by Comedy Central. It starts airing in late 2013.

    If always sunny does good enough in syndication, Community should do even better. It’s got a broader audience. Plus I can see Comedy Central really marketing the ads for the show well.

11. chrisss

    Posted July 22, 2012 at 11:31 AM

    @ Oliver

    Whitney skewed younger than Community. And Community is male skewing? Considering it’s not one of Fox’s animated sitcoms, I highly doubt that.

12. senor chang

    Posted July 22, 2012 at 5:04 PM

    I don’t think bad repeat ratings means no future in syndication. The audience for Community reaaally isn’t conpatible with the audience watching TV on Fridays.

    Put it on a network that caters to its audience (Comedy Central is a great example) and it’ll do fine.

13. Kaylie

    Posted July 22, 2012 at 8:01 PM

    CW repeats

14. richierich

    Posted July 23, 2012 at 12:09 PM

    @ a p garcia

    This is an entertaonment website. Keep your personal political comments to yourself.
    Go to a news website to make these kind of accusations.

15. richierich

    Posted July 23, 2012 at 12:10 PM

    Sorry to everybody else. I just realized I might have fed a troll.

16. richierich

    Posted July 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    Of course, you know I meant an entertainment website. Sorry for the spelling error.