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| Total Viewers (million) | 6.74 | 6.35 | 3.30 | 3.11 | 1.82 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.9/6 | 1.4/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.0/3 | 0.6/2 |
Technically it was more eventful than normal since the only regular Friday night programming was 20/20, Everybody Hates Chris and The Game. 20/20 was the night’s most watched program. But perhaps how well repeats of Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs performed is interesting to you. If so, have at it…
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Movie: The Polar Express 8p-10p (R) | 6.59 | 1.8/6 |
| CBS | Ghost Whisperer (R) | 6.15 | 1.3/4 | |
| FOX | Movie: School of Rock (R) 8p-10p | 3.30 | 1.0/3 | |
| NBC | Movie: The Incredibles (R) 8p-10:30p | 3.29 | 1.2/4 | |
| CW | Everybody Hates Chris | 2.10 | ||
| 8:30 | CW | The Game | 2.03 | 0.7/2 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer (R) | 5.97 | 1.5/4 |
| CW | Everybody Hates Chris (R) | 1.62 | 0.6/2 | |
| 9:30 | CW | The Game (R) | 1.54 | 0.6/2 |
| 10:00 | ABC | 20/20 | 7.06 | 2.0/6 |
| CBS | Numb3rs(R) | 6.95 | 1.6/5 | |
| 10:30 | NBC | The Office (R) | 2.21 | 0.9/3 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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 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.
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 which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. 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.
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Don’t you mean CBS?
No wait you’ve mixed ABC and CBS on the scoreboard…
Fin, indeed I’d originally left it with last Friday’s sort order. But then I corrected it, but the change still might not have been visible due to the way we have caching running on our site. Since we’re not very busy today, I’ve deleted the cache entirely and the table should display properly for everyone.
Was Numb3rs repeat or not? You seem to imply it is in the commentary, but it’s not designated as a repeat in the list. And you forgot a period. And a word.
(I will now have to email you about every little mistake here!)
@^&!
Numb3rs was a repeat, and I found (and inserted) the missing word. The missing period remains elusive though.
Between program and but.
lol. that is pretty sad, especially since there were only TWO sentences…
How come in other places they said Ghost Whisperer got a 3.2 at 8:00 pm or at 9:00 pm then here it says other numbers.
Can somebody confirm that the Polar Express was what ABC showed last night? I was flipping through and there was some movie on ABC that didn’t look like it (I thought the whole thing was animated) though the guide said it was The Polar Express as well. Any thoughts as to what happened or am I just dillusional?
WED, I’m not sure where you saw a 3.2 for GW, but we report 18-49 ratings and viewer numbers, not “household ratings”.
If Ghost Whisperer was pulling better than a 3.0 among 18-49 year olds in a rerun on a Friday, Jennifer Love Hewitt is going to wind up making a LOT more money than she currently makes.
How well each rerun does is interesting to me.
My family and I were watching the MONK & PSYCH holiday episodes. Nothing else interested us. Wish we could see the ratings for those on USA.
Russell, if there is the equivalent of the preliminary overnight data we use for the broadcast networks for the cable networks, I’ve never seen it and I’m not sure such comprehensive *preliminary* overnight reporting for cable networks even exists.
Outside of press releases issued later in the day by the cable networks themselves, we only regularly see cable data for shows on a weekly basis.