| ABC | CBS | NBC | FOX | CW | |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 1.4/4 | 1.1/4 | 1.0/3 | 0.7/2 | 0.5/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 5.818 | 4.390 | 4.805 | 2.009 | 1.605 |
ABC was number one in adults 18-49 and with total viewers.
On ABC, Last Man Standing was even with last week's 1.4 adults 18-49 rating. Malibu Country was also flat with last week's 1.4 rating. 20/20 notched a 1.5, up a tenth from last week's 1.4 adults 18-49 rating.
On CBS, It's a SpongeBob Christmas earned a 0.9 adults 18-49 rating.
On NBC, Dateline NBC earned a 1.0, down two tenths from last week's 1.2 rating.
CBS, FOX and The CW all re-aired classic Christmas specials last night. Check the table to see which ones fared better than others. For those interested, The Happy Elf on the CW at 9PM (Nikita's current timeslot) earned a 0.5. Your predictions were correct.
Overnight broadcast primetime ratings for Friday, November 23, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 PM | CBS | Frosty the Snowman -R | 2.0 | 7 | 6.876 |
| ABC | Last Man Standing | 1.4 | 5 | 6.708 | |
| NBC | The National Dog Show -R (8-10PM) | 1.0 | 3 | 4.849 | |
| FOX | Happiness is a Warm Blanket Charlie Brown -R | 0.5 | 2 | 1.778 | |
| CW | Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer -R | 0.5 | 2 | 1.684 | |
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| 8:30PM | CBS | Frosty Returns -R | 1.6 | 5 | 5.784 |
| ABC | Malibu Country | 1.4 | 4 | 6.432 | |
| 9:00PM | ABC | Shark Tank -R | 1.3 | 4 | 5.102 |
| CBS | Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas -R | 1.0 | 3 | 4.011 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons -R | 0.9 | 3 | 2.295 | |
| CW | The Happy Elf -R | 0.5 | 1 | 1.525 | |
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| 9:30PM | CBS | It's a SpongeBob Christmas | 0.9 | 3 | 3.626 |
| FOX | The Simpsons -R | 0.9 | 3 | 2.184 | |
| 10:00 PM | ABC | 20/20 | 1.5 | 5 | 5.782 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.0 | 3 | 4.716 | |
| CBS | Person to Person | 0.7 | 2 | 3.021 | |
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via press note:
In late-night metered-market households Friday night:
>
> * In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The
> Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.5/6 with an encore telecast; CBS's
> "Late Show with David Letterman," 1.7/4 with an encore; and ABC's
> combo of "Nightline," 2.9/7; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.4/4 with an
> encore.
>
> * In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results
> were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 0.8/3 with an encore; "Late
> Show," 0.4/2 with an encore; "Nightline," 1.0/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel
> Live," 0.5/2 with an encore.
>
> * At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.4/4 in
> metered-market households with an encore) beat CBS's "Late Late Show
> with Craig Ferguson" (0.9/3 with an encore). In the 25 markets with
> Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49 with an encore) beat
> "Late Late Show" (0.2/1 with an encore).
>
> * At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.8/3 in
> metered-market households with an encore and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49
> in the 25 markets with local people meters.
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.
The CW specials did well. Smart decision by The CW. It also means they don’t need to show as many low-rated repeats.
Surprised ABC’s comedies held up.
CBS’s new Spongebob special did terribly.
Wow Frosty.
Poor Nikita xD
Even if I love (so much) Nikita, its rating is really low
If CW decided to cancel Nikita, it would be right
What’s the excuse for Nikita’s terrible ratings now? Hahahaha
That Spongebob special was like a bad trip.
If the CW doesn’t cancel Nikita then they’re truly crazy. No offense to the people who watch it but the ratings are extremely low and a Christmas special even bested it. I think Netflix would have a better time producing the show possibly instead.
Simpsons was great!
Syndication possibly can’t save Nikita. This just proves that people aren’t interested in the show.
The repeat of the National Dog Show did very well, better than what I expected. May be with a repeat doing that well. NBC will think about airing more dog shows like on Saturdays or during summer or something.
I hope so.
i’m surprised also that abc comedies held up after the last 2 weeks of free falling…not up against much competition though…
Hoping this means that Malibu Country is done falling and stabilizes. It should uptick to a 1..5. Every episode this season has gone up in the finals. Last nights episode was by far the best so far. It’s my favorite comedy on tv right now. I was worried the demo would be low considering all the programing to drawl in young ppl with children.
I see the CW’s Grandma got run over by a reindeer tied Fox at 8pm 0.5 Charlie Brown. If Nikita can’t even muster that next week it really should be pulled & yes I do watch it.
LMS and Malibu Country stable is good news especially on a holiday weekend.
Happy Elf crushed Nikita
@s0303 I think the competition was actually worse last night compared to normal considering all the Christmas programming would drawl in young adults who are watching with their children. On a normal night kids would not be begging to watch undercover boss with their parents. In other words life of family watching competition for the comedies that they have not had to worry about thus far.
Glad that Last Man Standing didn’t drop again. Hopefully this and Whitney (Other network, off topic but bad ratings this week, along with other show I’m rooting for Guys With Kids) go up next week.
@MJDB
Whitney and Guys With Kids fell because they aired on Thanksgiving Eve, they *should* be up next week.
ABC comedies held up well.
Good news for LMS and MC. I said last week that they should stabilie around here and possibly have a small uptick, so this is in the range of what I expected. Nicely done for both.
LMS finally stopped falling. It’s a real shame what they did to that show but the story lines have been getting better despite the changes. I wonder how the ratings would look if they didn’t ruin the show and turn so many people off.
For the love of god please cancel Nikita already! It is rated so terrible and we shouldn’t have to read comments about a show that rates that bad.