ESPN, powered by Monday Night Football, won the week among adults 18-49 during primetime beating out USA and TBS.
ESPN was the top network among total viewers during primetime, beating USA and FOX News.
Nickelodeon was the top network in total day viewing, for the second straight week, beating Disney
and ESPN.
Prime-time Average Viewers (Live+SD) Week Ending September 16, 2012:
| Network | (000s) | |
| ESPN | 3286 | |
| USA | 2616 | |
| FOXN | 2364 | |
| DSNY | 2029 | |
| HIST | 1851 | |
| TNT | 1822 | |
| TBSC | 1588 | |
| A&E | 1446 | |
| NFLN | 1353 | |
| FX | 1299 | |
| HGTV | 1244 | |
| TLC | 1189 | |
| FAM | 1185 | |
| ADSM | 1146 | |
| SYFY | 1146 | |
| FOOD | 1110 | |
| AMC | 1091 | |
| TRU | 1066 | |
| MSNB | 1029 | |
| DISC | 1017 | |
| LIFE | 924 | |
| NAN | 863 | |
| NKJR | 805 | |
| TVLD | 777 | |
| BRAV | 759 |
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Prime-time Adults 18-49 (Live+SD)
| Network | (000s) | |
| ESPN | 1660 | |
| USA | 891 | |
| TBSC | 857 | |
| NFLN | 727 | |
| FX | 720 | |
| A&E | 675 | |
| HIST | 671 | |
| TNT | 579 | |
| FAM | 551 | |
| ADSM | 546 | |
| TLC | 531 | |
| TRU | 526 | |
| DISC | 508 | |
| FOOD | 502 | |
| SYFY | 498 | |
| MTV | 478 | |
| HGTV | 441 | |
| AMC | 416 | |
| BRAV | 410 | |
| LIFE | 404 | |
| CMDY | 398 | |
| EN | 388 | |
| DSNY | 373 | |
| SPK | 363 | |
| VH1 | 320 |
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Total Day Average Viewers (Live+SD)
| Network | (000s) | |
| NICK | 1456 | |
| DSNY | 1406 | |
| ESPN | 1398 | |
| FOXN | 1333 | |
| ADSM | 1163 | |
| USA | 1107 | |
| TNT | 991 | |
| TOON | 952 | |
| NAN | 900 | |
| HIST | 890 | |
| A&E | 766 | |
| TBSC | 680 | |
| HGTV | 655 | |
| FX | 603 | |
| MSNB | 585 | |
| FOOD | 578 | |
| ID | 562 | |
| TVLD | 549 | |
| FAM | 548 | |
| AMC | 531 | |
| TLC | 521 | |
| TRU | 513 | |
| DISC | 486 | |
| NKJR | 484 | |
| SYFY | 478 |
-Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2012 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.Cable Channel Abbreviations: NICK = Nickelodeon, NAN = Nick At Nite, TOON = Cartoon Network, ADSM = Adult Swim, TRU = truTV, LIFE = Lifetime, NKJR - Nick Jr., FAM = ABC Family, TVLD = TV Land, FOXN = Fox News, TBSC = TBS, DISC = Discovery
nick yeah
Nickelodeon’s reign of dominance continues…..OH YEAH!!
I expect this dominance to continue ’till summer 2013. Sorry disney fans.. xo
Disney STILL couldn’t beat nick with new episodes. Can’t wait for the new Victorious, BTR, AND HTR episodes airing this Saturday.
I don’t get it. What did Nickelodeon do differently? What did Nick do to suddenly bring its audience back? Does anyone know?
@Ryan Well, they started airing episodes of Drake and Josh from 7 – 8 PM. They also decided to bring back Full House, Even though its (Nan) If you look at the Friday cable ratings, they also started airing 1 hour icarly specialswhich are scoring 2mil + (along with Victorious episodes)
They are also starting their you gotta see saturday night starting this Saturday, which will be sure to crush disney.
Go Nick!!!!…… But im not so sure about gotta see saturdays i have only seen a promo once
Sickelodeon cancelled all there shows. Disney channel for the win.
Disney lost, loser.
nick was off air from direc-tv so their ratings drastically dropped for the past few months causing disney to get higher ratings. but!!!! nick is now back on direc-tv and they are back on top!!! they crushed disney badly..lol… love nick!