| Scoreboard | CBS | NBC | FOX | ABC |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 0.7/3 | 0.7/3 | 0.6/2 | 0.5/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.04 | 3.03 | 1.89 | 2.70 |
NBC and CBS tied for number one among adults 18-49 while CBS was on top in total viewers.
Note: Sorry, we only have half hours ratings today. In the meantime, averaging these half hours into ratings for each show will often lead to errors.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Saturday, July 21 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | FOX | Cops -R | 0.6 | 2 | 2.020 |
| NBC | 30 Greatest Olympic Moments | 0.6 | 3 | 2.540 | |
| CBS | NYC 22 | 0.4 | 2 | 3.330 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition -R | 0.4 | 2 | 2.030 | |
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| 8:30 PM | FOX | Cops -R | 0.9 | 3 | 2.460 |
| NBC | 30 Greatest Olympic Moments | 0.7 | 3 | 3.130 | |
| CBS | NYC 22 | 0.5 | 2 | 3.590 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition -R | 0.5 | 2 | 2.210 | |
| 9:00PM | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 0.7 | 3 | 3.960 |
| ABC | Castle -R | 0.6 | 2 | 2.780 | |
| NBC | Law And Order SVU -R | 0.5 | 2 | 2.420 | |
| FOX | Mobbed -R | 0.6 | 2 | 1.660 | |
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| 9:30 PM | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 0.8 | 3 | 4.410 |
| NBC | Law And Order SVU -R | 0.7 | 2 | 3.020 | |
| ABC | Castle -R | 0.6 | 2 | 3.050 | |
| FOX | Mobbed -R | 0.6 | 2 | 1.660 | |
| 10:00 PM | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 0.9 | 3 | 4.38 |
| NBC | Law And Order SVU -R | 0.8 | 3 | 3.34 | |
| ABC | Castle -R | 0.5 | 2 | 3.03 | |
| 10:30 PM | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 1.0 | 3 | 4.59 |
| NBC | Law And Order SVU -R | 0.9 | 3 | 3.73 | |
| ABC | Castle -R | 0.5 | 2 | 3.08 | |
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Saturday's Ratings Via TV Media Insights
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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 baseball 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.
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.)
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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Ball Boys is up three tenths from last week. I have to wonder if ABC was pre-empted somewhere.
SVU a big improvement than the firm for NBC.
Ball Boys didn’t air. ABC pulled it in favor of another Castle episode.
I thought they re-aired the two-parter of Castle instead of Ball Boys?
…that’s what I get for not refreshing.
SVU was the only show to crack a 1.0. Sloow night.
Not even a 1.0 for the night. That’s pathetic. Any other job turning in consistently falling numbers would be seeing pink slips all around. TV, excuses are made.
Would The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men get the same ratings they did on Thursday if they were on CBS yesterday night?
@ adanskiii,
You must have misread it on accident. 48 Hours Mystery was the only show to crack a 1.0 demo.
Both 48 Hours were reruns, according to listings.
Why apologize for half hours? They’re better than the full hour ratings.
I thought the 48 hours in the last few days were focused on the shooting
Cops is hanging in there. I wonder if Fox regrets pulling America’s Most Wanted which lives on at Lifetime with a recent 20 episode order. John Walsh has busted over 20 punks since it started there.
It’s funny that people are even bothering to care about whether shows are up or down at these numbers. All but one show is 0.x. I know it’s a Saturday in the summer, but you can see why broadcast TV is on “borrowed time,” as one supreme court justice said recently. And if Aereo succeeds in court at retransmitting free broadcasts over the internet, you could see networks go cable-only pretty quickly.
@iggy. @Jason E. The first 48 hours show was on a past case. The second show was on the Colorado shooting.
Hooray for 48 hours mystery.
So werid not seeing The Firm there.
@cc, You do realize majority of these are repeats right? I think that would explain such a slow night overall.
I wonder if there were specials Saturday night (July 21st) on the cable news channels covering the aftermath of the Colorado theatre massacre. If there were, they might have taken a chunk of viewers away from broadcast networks.c