| ABC | FOX | NBC | CBS | CW | |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 1.0/3 | 1.0/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.6/2 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.844 | 2.711 | 4.421 | 4.053 | 1.804 |
FOX and ABC tied for number one in adults 18-49, while ABC was on top in total viewers.
On ABC, Back to the Beginning With Christiane Amanpour earned a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating.
On FOX, Fringe scored a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating, down a tenth from last week’s 1.1 adults 18.49 rating
On NBC, Dateline scored a 0.8, down sharply from last week's Sandy Hook special, which earned a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating.
Overnight broadcast primetime ratings for Friday, December 21, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 PM | NBC | Blake Shelton's Not So Family Christmas -R | 1.0 | 3 | 5.047 |
| ABC | Last Man Standing -R | 0.9 | 3 | 4.294 | |
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares-R | 0.9 | 3 | 2.399 | |
| CBS | The Good Wife -R | 0.6 | 2 | 4.127 | |
| CW | The Happy Elf -R | 0.6 | 2 | 1.726 | |
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| 8:30PM | ABC | Malibu Country -R | 0.8 | 3 | 3.778 |
| 9:00 PM | ABC | Back to the Beginning With Christiane Amanpour (9-11) | 1.1 | 3 | 5.248 |
| FOX | Fringe | 1.0 | 3 | 3.023 | |
| NBC | Michael Buble: Home for the Holidays -R | 0.8 | 3 | 4.435 | |
| CBS | The Good Wife -R | 0.6 | 2 | 3.918 | |
| CW | Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer -R | 0.6 | 2 | 1.882 | |
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| 10:00 PM | NBC | Dateline | 0.8 | 3 | 3.78 |
| CBS | The Good Wife -R | 0.7 | 2 | 4.115 | |
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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," 3.2/8; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.4/6; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 3.2/7; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.6/4 with an encore.
* In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were:The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,0.9/4; "Late Show," 0.6/3; "Nightline," 1.0/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.5/3 with an encore.
* At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.9/6 in metered-market households) beat CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.3/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.7/4 in 18-49) topped "Late Late Show" (0.4/3).
* At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 1.1/4 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.4/3 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.
darn was hoping fringe would see a rise this week due to the lack of competition, oh well I guess it dosen’t really matter at this point.
these ratings look like Saturday
The CW specials did very well
Holy cow. CBS would have received higher ratings showing a test pattern rather than running The Good Wife marathon—just pathetic.
Once you lost the viewers, they never come back. Even less for such a serialized show.
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The Good Wife repeats did better than I expected.
The CW specials did well. Smart decision by the network assuming it doesn’t cost them much. Late premiere and Xmas specials vastly reduces the number of repeats.
TGW repeats did well on CBS.
Last year they aired repeats of CSI NY, which only scored 0,5 or 0,4.
Well… Ratings For Fringe… Wow. When’s the finale?
CBS tied The CW…pathetic.
i was expecting 0.5′s for the good wife…so that’s good…maybe someone will pick it up for syndication with pretty good friday repeats…or at the very least, hopefully this was a test run to see if they should renew tgw and air it on fridays (fingers crossed)…
Fringe was amazing last night….very emotional
Uhm, TheOnlyOneAndOnly, where did you get that? These were the ratings last year, December 23
A Gifted Man 0.7
CSI: NY 1.0
Blues Bloods 1.1
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/12/27/friday-final-tv-ratings-no-adjustments-for-chuck/114728/
I’m going to be really annoyed in five years or so when people realize what a gem Fringe was. My heart broke a little more after last night’s “departure”, but I’m happy that the character who “departed” went out a hero!
How has Fringe dipped when it only went down a tenth?
grimm repeats usually only get 0.6 on fridays and that’s fridays highest scripted show, so not bad for tgw…
Personally I think TGW did pretty well. Especially since it’s around Christmas and people obviously (showing by all the ratings) aren’t watching TV that much.
@Colin
because last weeks episode rated 1.1 and this week it was 1.0
that’s called a dip :/
@colin
I believe any adjustment down, no matter how small, is called a dip.
Bad numbers all around w/ 1.1 “best in show.”
Didn’t watch any network again last night, third night in a row!