| 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.
