| Scoreboard | CBS | ABC | NBC | FOX | CW |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 1.3/4 | 1.3/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.1/4 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 9.253 | 4.688 | 4.316 | 3.228 | 0.908 |
ABC & CBS tied the night in adults 18-49, while CBS was on top in total viewers.
On ABC, Shark Tank earned a 1.5, down a tick from last week's 1.6 adults 18-49 rating. 20/20 was flat with last week.
On NBC, the Friday premiere of Grimm earned a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating, up a tenth from the 1.5 18-49 rating its last original earned. Dateline scored a 1.3, down from last season's 2.0 fall premiere rating
On CBS, the season premiere of CSI: NY earned a 1.3, down from last year's premiere which earned a 1.8 18-49 rating. The series premiere of Made In Jersey earned a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating, your predictions were far too optimistic . Blue Bloods earned a 1.5, down from last year's 2.0 season premiere rating.
On FOX, Fringe was down from last year, earning a 1.1 18-49 rating vs. last season's 1.5 adults 18-49 premiere rating.
On the CW, America's Next Top Model was even with last week's 0.5 adults 18-49 rating.
Overnight broadcast primetime ratings for Friday, September 28, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 PM | ABC | Shark Tank | 1.5 | 6 | 5.892 |
| CBS | CSI: NY | 1.3 | 5 | 8.999 | |
| FOX | The X Factor -R | 1.1 | 4 | 3.281 | |
| NBC | Grimm -R | 0.7 | 2 | 2.843 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model | 0.5 | 2 | 0.916 | |
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| 9:00PM | NBC | Grimm | 1.6 | 5 | 5.312 |
| ABC | Last Resort -R | 1.1 | 4 | 4.008 | |
| CBS | Made In Jersey -P | 1.1 | 4 | 7.744 | |
| FOX | Fringe | 1.1 | 4 | 3.176 | |
| CW | Nikita -R | 0.2 | 1 | 0.633 | |
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| 10:00 PM | CBS | Blue Bloods | 1.5 | 5 | 11.106 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 1.4 | 4 | 4.165 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.3 | 4 | 4.794 | |
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via press note:
In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.9/7; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.7/7; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 2.7/6; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.5/4.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 1.0/5; "Late Show," 0.6/3; "Nightline," 0.9/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.5/3.
- At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.8/3 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2012 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
NOTE: All ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.
Definitions:
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. More information on ratings is available here.
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.
Made in Jersey won’t last long; not sure what it will be replaced with but it will dip below a 1.0 next week. They should just slide CSI:NY back to 9PM
Grimm won the night.
OMG!
just looking at these numbers just shows that Friday nights ratings are dismal!
Made in jersey lol
Wow at MIJ
wow. thats HORRIBLE for Blue Bloods in viewers…usually gets 10-11 million
Question of the day, just how low are CBS expectation for MiJ when they put it on friday?!
Grimm!!
CBS should scrap all friday shows and just repeat the comedies…theyd get 2.0+
Disastrous for Made in Jersey.
Good for Shark Tank and Grimm
Yay, Grimm! I really am surprised that it came back so strong. It even beat Shark Tank. I didn’t even know that a new episode was on, I only caught it by accident. Despite all the criticism, NBC’s early airings and schedule to grow its audience must have paid off.
Grimm is so stable no matter what night it is on!
“Fringe” got exactly what I predicted! I’m getting better at this “Guess the Ratings!” thing. Lol…
YESSS GO GRIMM!!!
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FRINGE UP FROM LAST SEASON FINALE TOO
oh well. There goes CBS’ hopes of any spinoffs…Made in Long Island and Made in Delaware
Grimm wins the night! Go little show, go!!!!!!!!!
Yikes, 1.1 is lower than I expected for Jersey. Also, Blue Bloods under 10 million for the first time. :/ I know it doesn’t matter, but still…
Remarks:
- Made in Jersey is a flop
- Last Resort repeated well. Hopefully it gives it some help next week Thursday
- Blue Bloods hold out ok, it should have no problems getting a second season
- Fringe did what expected but doesn’t actually matter
- I was hoping for a bit higher for Grimm, but it’s still okay. Hopefully it is adjusted up in the finals
nice ratings for Grimm,
Made In Jersey is so much DEAD! This is even not DOA(DOA is better than this) is shoking ratings for CBS! The Giftet Man was 1.7 is just CBS nightmare.