| Scoreboard | NBC | FOX | CBS | ABC | CW | x |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 5.8/18 | 3.1/10 | 1.7/5 | 1.2/4 | 0.2/1 | x |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 4.9/19 | 2.8/11 | 1.1/4 | 0.8/3 | 0.2/1 | x |
| Total Viewers (million) | 15.929 | 9.401 | 6.827 | 4.202 | 0.819 | x |
Due to the nature of live programming the ratings for NBC (NFL Football), & FOX (Football Overruns) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.
NBC won the night in adults 18-49 and in Total Viewers.
On FOX, NFL Overruns delayed the start of primetime by 17 minutes, which means these numbers are scrambled and subject to change.
On ABC the Bad 25 special earned a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating
On NBC, the Thanksgiving Jets/Pats matchup earned a preliminary 6.2 adults 18-49 rating
Late-night ratings are below the primetime data.
Overnight ratings for Thursday, November 22, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | FOX | NFL Overrun (8-8:17PM) | 6.0 | 20 | 17.949 |
| NBC | Football Night in America | 3.7 | 12 | 10.891 | |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory -R | 1.8 | 6 | 7.113 | |
| ABC | Charlie Brown Thanksgiving -R | 1.2 | 4 | 4.053 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries -R | 0.2 | 1 | 0.794 | |
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| 8:30PM | NBC | NFL Football (Pats/Jets) | 6.2 | 20 | |
| FOX | The X Factor | 2.5 | 8 | 8.316 | |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men -R | 1.8 | 6 | 6.766 | |
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| 9:00PM | FOX | The X Factor/Glee | 2.3 | 7 | 6.891 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory -R | 2.0 | 6 | 7.341 | |
| ABC | Modern Family -R | 1.0 | 3 | 3.441 | |
| CW | Beauty And The Beast -R | 0.2 | 1 | 0.845 | |
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| 9:30 | CBS | 2 Broke Girls -R | 1.6 | 5 | 6.138 |
| FOX | Glee | 1.5 | 5 | 4.447 | |
| ABC |
Bad 25 (9:30-11PM)
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1.2 | 4 | ||
| 10:00 | CBS | Person Of Interest -R | 1.3 | 4 | 6.801 |
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Late night ratings:
In Late-Night Metered Markets Wednesday 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," 2.7/7; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 2.8/7; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.7/5.
* In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: > "> The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,> "> 0.9/4; "Late Show," 0.8/3; "Nightline," 0.9/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.7/3.
* At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.5/5 in metered-market households) beat CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.4/4 with an encore). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49) topped "Late Late Show" (0.4/2 with an encore).
* At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.9/3 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
NOTE: All ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.
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Definitions:
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.
For more information see Numbers 101.
Remember when they would air a Michael Jackson special and it would get huge ratings?
Yay for XFactor!
Those ratings for ABC as the special would say, just “Bad”
CBS reruns outscored ABC & CW (a given) & 1st half of Glee
FOX may be adjusted down w/ XFac, but have to wait for finals “1-2-3..”
FB wins again for NBC (get while you can) as it is the Thanksgiving tradition
Looks like Glee isn’t reviving original scripted on Thanksgiving.
CBS proving how much better multi-camera sitcoms repeat compared to single-camera sitcoms.
So around 2.5/2.3 for X Factor? I would say that’s pretty good.
If Twitter last night is any indication – and maybe it isn’t, who knows – then Bad25 on ABC may increase fairly substantially in live + 3 and live + 7.
Glee will probably get 1 more final season
Even the biggest POS NFL game in a long time wins the night.
BATB repeat had more viewers than a VD repeat, interesting. Still 0.2 for both of them.
a 1.5 for glee without the xfactor help. yikes.
rob60990, I’m guessing you’re not aware with how The Voice did after the Super Bowl.
Yay for TBBT!
The fact that The Big Bang Theory did better rerunning at 9, proves that the show could do amazing in that timeslot.
@ Remote Patrolled, the fact that it started 20 minutes late is part of the reason why ratings are in the 2′s. It will be adjusted down, a lot.
I hate Michael Jackson. So glad that Bad 25 lost to reruns!
I think 2 Broke Girls should have been moved to Thursday’s after Big Bang Theory rather than Two and a Half Men. Even though it’s a repeat, it did very well.
Thanksgiving night is typically a bad night anyway for any show. Football will always rule that night. Considering,(and averaging the numbers) both X Factor and Glee did alright. I agree that Glee will probably get renewed, but Season 5 will be the last.
Oh – and last night’s episode of Glee was by far the best one yet (since The Break up)
very good results. sure, the x factor will adjust down but definitely NOT into the 1′s which most people were predicting.
and it gave glee a decent push as well.
not nearly as bad as i was expecting
@baquinardo:
umm, it was thanksgiving day and the xfactor was up against a little football game that featured a little team called the patriots…you might have heard of them. i hear their quarterback is a pretty famous and draws ratings/crowds.
just sayin’
1.5 for Glee and people are happy. I guess they were expecting worse. Also Glee was the only show with a new episode.