| Scoreboard | ABC | NBC | CBS | FOX | CW |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 1.8/6 | 0.9/3 | 0.7/2 | 0.7/2 | 0.5/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 5.923 |
3.130 | 4.614 | 3.035 | 1.12 |
ABC won the night in adults 18-49 and total viewers.
On ABC, the season premiere of Shark Tank earned a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating, even with its season 3 premiere. The season premiere of Primetime: What Would You Do? earned a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating, and 20/20 scored a 1.8 adults 18-49 rating, up from last week's 1.2 rating.
On NBC, Dateline was even with last week's 0.9 adults 18-49 rating.
On the CW, America's Next Top Model garnered a season high 0.7 adults 18-49 rating, up a tenth from last week's 0.6 among adults 18-49.
On FOX, an "extra episode" of Touch earned a 0.7 18-49 rating, down six tenths from last year's season finale.
Overnight broadcast primetime ratings for Friday, September 14, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 PM | ABC | Shark Tank | 1.7 | 7 | 6.303 |
| NBC | Guys With Kids -R | 1.0 | 4 | 3.298 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model | 0.7 | 3 | 1.504 | |
| CBS | Undercover Boss -R | 0.7 | 3 | 4.186 | |
| FOX | Touch | 0.7 | 3 | 2.943 | |
| 8:30 PM | NBC | Go On -R | 1.0 | 4 | 3.06 |
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| 9:00PM | ABC | What Would You Do? | 1.7 | 6 | 5.395 |
| CBS | CSI: NY -R | 0.7 | 2 | 4.73 | |
| FOX | Bones -R | 0.7 | 2 | 3.127 | |
| NBC | Grimm -R | 0.7 | 2 | 2.426 | |
| CW | Nikita -R | 0.3 | 1 | 0.742 | |
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| 10:00 PM | ABC | 20/20 | 1.8 | 6 | 6.125 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 0.9 | 3 | 3.786 | |
| CBS | Blue Bloods -R | 0.7 | 2 | 4.927 | |
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Friday's Ratings Via TV Media Insights
NOTE: All ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.
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BAHAHAHAHA Touch!!!!! ROFL
Good hold for ANTM. Might be a solid Friday option (at least in the fall)
America’s Next Top Model gave FLOPKITA a Slight boost
The table reads 1.7 for Shark Tank.
In any event, ST has turned into a pretty solid performer for Friday nights. Shark Barbara also appeared on What Would You Do.
Thats all i thought Touch would get. Part of me expected a 0.5. Go On did well for NBC. Nice to see Top Model do well. Not even the proper season and it got a good rating by CW standards.
Lol Nikita hate already starting.
not sure many people knew touch was new yesterday…i didn’t find out til i was on here yesterday…
antm is getting supernatural ratings on friday
Well done to The CW for coming joint third.
0.7 is solid, even if it’s adjusted down, a 0.6 is solid and already better than most Nikita’s fall episodes. So a good move from the net.
Hope Nikita does well at 9:00PM. Hoping for a 0.6 for the premiere!
Great night for ABC. Hope Shark Tank adjusts up since it ran until 901.
ANTM really helped being moved to Fridays. If it can keep it up there may just be another cycle.
Lmao at Touch. Guys With Kids repeated well.
@Jamie
lol – “Hoping for a 0.6 for the Premiere”
Such low expectations
Considering Nikita got 0.4 for its last 6 episodes CW would be happy for a 0.6 for Nikita Premiere.
And Nikit is a freaking repeat. That just shows how pathetic the haters are
Wow, Guys with Kids didn’t repeat too bad.
Great start for Shark Tank.
Americas Next Top Model is doing pretty well.
WOW Never expected ANTM to tie loads of other programming
There, 0.7 is a flop, folks, not 3.0+.
What? A CW show beat FOX when they are both airing new episodes? Has that ever happened before? Not good for Touch.
Nice to see the Grimm repeat go to 0.7 from the 0.5′s it’s been getting. The NBC comedies seem to be repeating well on a Friday as well.
ANTM might actually resurrect from the dead and warrant itself a new cycle on midseason, after all. Good for the CW.
It gets the same as other repeats on cw and nikita does that same ratings in repeat on fridays. So what are the haters crowing about is beyond me
Anyone else shocked at how well Guys With Kids did ? It really should be on Fridays, it has a TGIF vibe to it. Actually, it seems more like an ABC show than an NBC one (it would have paired nicely with Malibu Country/Last Man Standing.
@Dennis
And probably even those aren’t realistic, since the show was getting 0.4s in the spring.
ANTM’s doing pretty well, though. I expect that will get a spring cycle unless it drops.