Prime Time Ratings:
Friday 4/20/07

The following results are based on the fast national ratings (Live Plus Same Day data)

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 7.55 million, NBC: 5.79, Fox: 5.36, ABC: 5.10, CW: 3.84

-Adults 18-49:
ABC and CBS: 1.9 rating/7 share each, Fox: 1.6/ 6, NBC: 1.5/ 5, CW: 1.2/ 4

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-Friday’s Winners:
Nothing

-Friday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
Identity (NBC), Raines (NBC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was of a night of mixed leadership on this repeat-riddled Friday, with CBS the most-watched network and ABC and CBS tied for No. 1 among adults 18-49 (with a mere 1.9 rating/7 share, mind you). A repeat of Ghost Whisperer opened the evening for the Eye net first in total viewers (6.67 million) and tied with a repeat of Fox’s House for No. 1 among adults 18-49 (1.7 rating/7 share each). The House encore was second in total viewers, with 5.60 million.

Also in the 8 p.m. hour were NBC’s Identity (Viewers: #3, 4.84 million; A18-49: #3t, 1.4/ 5), which remains a pale replacement for former occupant 1 vs. 100, a repeat of Grey’s Anatomy on ABC (Viewers: #4, 4.08 million; A18-49: #3t, 1.4/ 5), and the first hour of The CW’s perennial Friday Night Smackdown! (Viewers: #5, 3.29 million; A18-49: #5, 1.1/ 4). Overall, Smackdown! was below average with 3.84 million viewers (#5) and a 1.2/ 4 among adults 18-49 from 8-10 p.m. As for NBC’s current Friday 8 p.m. time period woes, why not renew 1 vs. 100 already?

At 9 p.m., a repeat of CBS’ Close To Home and a repeat of ABC’s Wife Swap shared the top spot as follows:

Friday 9 p.m.
Close to Home R (CBS)
Viewers: 7.95 million (#1); A18-49: 1.8/ 6 (#2)

Wife Swap R (ABC)
Viewers: 4.72 million (#4), A18-49: 2.1/ 7 (#1)

Also at 9 p.m. were NBC’s doomed Raines (Viewers: #2, 5.87 million; A18-49: #4t, 1.4/ 5), a repeat of Fox’s Bones (Viewers: #3, 5.12 million; A18-49: #3, 1.6/ 5), and the second hour of The CW’s aforementioned Friday Night Smackdown! (Viewers: #5, 4.40 million; A18-49: #4t, 1.4/ 5). Although Raines did managed to buld from lead-in Identity by 1.03 million viewers, keep in mind that the competition included three repeats.

A repeat of CBS’ Numb3s and ABC’s veteran 20/20 shared the No. 1 position at 10 p.m., followed by a repeat of NBC’s on the fence Law & Order. Take a look:

Friday 10:00 p.m.
Numb3rs R (CBS)
Viewers: 8.01 million (#1), A18-49: 2.1/ 7 (#1t)

20/20 (ABC)
Viewers: 6.50 million (#3), A18-49: 2.1/ 7 (#1t)

Law & Order R (NBC)
Viewers: 6.70 million (#2), A18-49: 1.7/ 6 (#3)

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

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Pathetic isn't it??? Glad that I wasn't home to watch this horrible night of TV. Friday and Saturdays are becoming wasteland and exiles for the TV sludge. What a waste of what use to be a perfectly great night of Tv viewing in its heyday.

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Originally posted by healingbuddy:
Pathetic isn't it??? Glad that I wasn't home to watch this horrible night of TV. Friday and Saturdays are becoming wasteland and exiles for the TV sludge. What a waste of what use to be a perfectly great night of Tv viewing in its heyday.

There's always next season!

In the sixth direct face-off between House vs. Grey's Anatomy, House once again had the decisive advantage.

After six stethescope-to-stethescope confrontations, the Friday at 8 pm averages:

House, 6.18m viewers, 2.03 A18-49
Grey's Anatomy, 4.64m viewers, 1.47 A18-49

Hats off to Wife Swap and 20/20 for time period winnning (tieing) numbers. Poor Raines. Last night was a very good episode, and I will miss this series if NBC cancels it.

When will networks ever come to realize that there IS an audience for television on Friday nights? Can't they think of the next TGIF block, without calling it that? These corporations have billions of dollars, yet they can't create a show that would work on Fridays?

If you add up the A18-49 SHARES last night, it totals 29%. That means 71% of the 18-49 folks watching TV last night were on another network (presumably cable).

With the right people, I don't think its too hard to change that...or even find those people who can do that. Come on!

This is a tupid question. I will ask it anyway.
What is the meaning of the demo numbers like 1.8/6, for Close to Home or 2.1/7 for Wife Swap.
Do those numbers represent a percentage of the total audience watching in the time period, or is it a percentage of its own audience?

For example CTH had 7.95 million viewers with a 1.8/6 in the demo. Wife Swap had 4.72 million viewers with a 2.1/7 demo.
If the demo represents a percentage of ite own viewers, it seems to me that CTH would have nearly the same or more viewers in the demo simply because its audience is almost double.
I really would like an answer to this question.

You are correct about the demo. Wife Swap had slightly more demo viewers even though the audience was substantially less. The demo number 2.1 means that 2.1% of all A 18-49 in the US watched the broadcast. Read about what each number means here (in the green box).

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Originally posted by dramaqueen:
This is a tupid question. I will ask it anyway.
What is the meaning of the demo numbers like 1.8/6, for Close to Home or 2.1/7 for Wife Swap.
Do those numbers represent a percentage of the total audience watching in the time period, or is it a percentage of its own audience?

For example CTH had 7.95 million viewers with a 1.8/6 in the demo. Wife Swap had 4.72 million viewers with a 2.1/7 demo.
If the demo represents a percentage of ite own viewers, it seems to me that CTH would have nearly the same or more viewers in the demo simply because its audience is almost double.
I really would like an answer to this question.

The A18-49 rating is the percentage of adults 18-49 watching the show. There are roughly 130.6M in the US, so a 1.8 = about 2.35M and a 2.1 = about 2.74M.

Estimates obviously.

The /6 and /7 is the percentage of that audience available. As in, the 1.8 rating represented 6% of the total A18-49 rating available for that time period.

The rating is measured against the total audience of TV Households (regardless if they are watching TV or not), the share measures the percent of the available audience the show captured.

Edit: TheFutonCritic explanation is probably the clearest explanation you'll find on the net.

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This is a tupid question. I will ask it anyway.
What is the meaning of the demo numbers like 1.8/6, for Close to Home or 2.1/7 for Wife Swap.
Do those numbers represent a percentage of the total audience watching in the time period, or is it a percentage of its own audience?

For example CTH had 7.95 million viewers with a 1.8/6 in the demo. Wife Swap had 4.72 million viewers with a 2.1/7 demo.
If the demo represents a percentage of ite own viewers, it seems to me that CTH would have nearly the same or more viewers in the demo simply because its audience is almost double.
I really would like an answer to this question.

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Has NBC announced what they are doing on this night in May? I know Raines finale is next week, so what's going there? Dateline?

of NBC’s on the fence Law & Order

now there is a sentence I have never heard before. Is there really a chance it will get cancelled, and not surpass Gunsmoke like they had wanted to?

There have been myriad stories detailing that possibility this week: The NY Times, Variety, The Hollowyood Reporter and several others all have reported on NBC's dilemma.

The consensus is that either L&O or L&O:CI is likely to be cancelled, although Dick Wolf continues to be in negotiations to get the costs down for NBC.

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Originally posted by tvratingsjunkie:
of NBC’s on the fence Law & Order

now there is a sentence I have never heard before. Is there really a chance it will get cancelled, and not surpass Gunsmoke like they had wanted to?

After watching 2 eps of "Identity", the novelty has worn off, & I see it for what it is...a pieca junk. I won't miss it at all if it gets the green weenie.