| Scoreboard | ABC | NBC | CBS | FOX | CW | x |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 3.1/10 | 0.9/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.5/2 | 0.5/2 | x |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.3/10 | 0.6/3 | 0.5/2 | 0.4/2 | 0.4/2 | x |
| Total Viewers (million) | 10.655 | 3.314 | 4.028 | 2.952 | 1.316 | x |
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ABC was number one with adults 18-49 and with total viewers.
On ABC, New Year's Rockin' Eve Celebrates Dick Clark scored a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating. Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest garnered a 4.1 adults 18-49 rating, it's biggest in 12 years.
On NBC, New Year's Eve With Carson Daly earned a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating, up from last year's 0.9 rating.
On FOX, The Mob Doctor burnoff continues with the latest installment getting a 0.4, down four tenths from the 0.8 adults 18-49 rating its last original earned.
On the CW, the iHeartRadio Music Festival earned a 0.5 among adults 18-49.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Monday, December 31, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | ABC | New Year's Rockin' Eve Celebrates Dick Clark (8-10PM) | 2.6 | 9 | 9.35 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother -R | 0.9 | 3 | 3.55 | |
| NBC | Enchanted -R (8-10PM) | 0.7 | 3 | 3.10 | |
| FOX | Bones -R | 0.6 | 2 | 3.55 | |
| CW | iHeartRadio Music Festival (8-10PM) | 0.5 | 2 | 1.32 | |
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| 8:30 PM | CBS | How I Met Your Mother -R | 0.8 | 3 | 3.11 |
| 9:00PM | CBS | 2 Broke Girls -R | 0.9 | 3 | 4.08 |
| FOX | The Mob Doctor | 0.4 | 1 | 2.35 | |
| 9:30PM | CBS | Mike & Molly -R | 0.8 | 3 | 4.18 |
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| 10:00PM | ABC | Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest | 4.1 | 14 | 13.26 |
| NBC | NBC's New Year's Eve With Carson Daly | 1.1 | 4 | 3.80 | |
| CBS | Hawaii Five-O -R | 0.8 | 3 | 4.63 | |
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Via NBC Press Note:
In Late-Night Metered-Market Household Averages for Saturday night: * From 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., "NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly" (4.9 rating, 11 share in metered-market households) is up 14 percent versus last year's 4.3/10 to deliver a three-year high. It's the annual telecast's highest metered-market rating since a 5.2 on December 31, 2009. Other late-night averages last night included: Fox's "New Year's Eve Live," 2.8/6 in metered-market households from 11 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013" on ABC, 10.6/25 from 11:30 p.m.-1:15 a.m. * In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly" (2.8 rating, 10 share in adults 18-49) is up 8 percent versus last year's 2.6/9 to match its highest rating in the Local People Meters in three years. Other results were a 2.0/7 for Fox's "New Year's Eve Live" and 7.7/29 for ABC's "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013." * National results for the December 31 late-night programs, including viewer numbers, are due from Nielsen Media Research on Thursday, Jan. 10.
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Definitions:
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Is there a place I can look up start dates for the mid-season premieres?
CBS repeated badly.
The Iheart music special the CW showed did good. I think it was the same as what they aired back on October 2. They repeated it i think. Everything but ABC did terrible.
Still not the same on ABC without Dick Clark. Rest in peace fine sir. You are missed!
3 things:
1) Happy New Year everyone! Here’s to another year of snark on tvbtn!
2) That picture makes Taylor Swift look just like Traci Lords (dating myself a bit).
3) Kathy and Anderson on CNN were awesome last night. A new tradition in our household.
amazing numbers for ABC.
did they promote their shows a lot? i just watched a little bit here and there and saw one revenge promo and one scandal promo.
Not a fan of NBC and especially not a fan of Carson Daly. He seems nice enough but he’s as interesting as dry toast. I’ve watched all 3 seasons of The Voice and I cannot stand him as the host. He’s very awkward and cannot ad lib well at all. Hate to admit it but it really proves how talented Ryan Seacrest is as a host, even if we can’t stand him either. The Voice could have better ratings if they had a great host.
“did they promote their shows a lot?”
Mostly The Bachelor & The Taste.
Happy New Year everyone!!
Oh, and I don’t think Bones did too bad (demo-wise), considering the rerun was from last season.
One would think that New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly would of done better. The Voice was huge this past Fall. And many viewers, specifically the targeted youth demo, has gotten to know him very well as host. Maybe if he had the judges from The Voice as co-hosts the special would of performed better.
Why “YESS”?! ABC are just a network yet with the most annoying distorted press releases around.
Dick Clark is almost as popular as Elvia!
Why didn’t they show the ball drop on NBC, all they showed was people kissing. Very disappointing.
I hope Emily Owens does well tonight, since it’s the only show in that slot that is coming back from hiatus tonight.
I always watch DC’s NYRE every year but during commercial breaks I watch Carson for a few minutes. Give him props for competing because each year they are establishing a bigger audience.
@K,
You do realize that H50 was a rerun? Besides, it did better than HIMYM and M&M in overall viewers and it had the same demo.
@Timothy
Is there a place I can look up start dates for the mid-season premieres?
ABC
The Bachelor – 7 Jan
The Taste – 22 Jan
Body of Proof – 5 Feb
Zero Hour – 14 Feb
Red Widow – 3 Mar
Dancing with the Stars – 18 Mar
Celebrity Diving – 19 Mar
How to Live with your Parents – 3 Apr
The Family Tools – 1 May
CBS
Rules of Engagement – 4 Feb
The Job – 8 Feb
Survivor – 13 Feb
The Amazing Race – 17 Feb
Golden Boy – 26 Feb
FOX
American Idol – 16 Jan
The Following – 21 Jan
Touch – 8 Feb
NBC
The Biggest Loser – 6 Jan
Deception – 7 Jan
Off Their Rockers – 8 Jan
1600 Penn – 10 Jan
Do No Harm – 31 Jan
Smash – 5 Feb
Community – 7 Feb
The Celebrity Apprentice – 3 Mar
Fashion Star – 8 Mar
Grimm – 8 Mar
The Voice – 25 Mar
Revolution – 25 Mar
Ready For Love – 31 Mar
CW
The Carrie Diaries – 14 Jan
Cult – 19 Feb
Good ratings for ABC. Now they get back to ratings reality next week with The Bachelor. I don’t expect much.
New Year’s “Rockin’ Eve” hasn’t “rocked” for decades, but I guess the viewers who watched wouldn’t know the difference. R.I.P. Dick Clark, but his NYE show was always lame and now it’s worse with Seacrest as the primary host.
@Noname_Rex
The viewing of the ball drop depended on where you were viewing the show. On most ABC affiliates it aired live, so if you watched DCNYRE last night outside of the Eastern time zone, you saw the ball drop an hour or two before your time zone struck midnight. However, some ABC affiliates and even some NBC affiliates may have aired alternate programming after their local news and decided to air the ball drop to correspond with their own time zones striking midnight. In my Central time zone city outside of Chicago, the ABC affiliate aired the ball drop on DCNYRE live, yet the NBC affiliate showed some choir singing in the hour after the local news and rejoined Carson Daly and the ball drop just before midnight.