or


[10/15/12 - 02:48 PM]
Friday's Cable Ratings: TBS Wins with MLB Division Series Finales
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for friday, october 12, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 19 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

MLB Division Series: St. Louis at Washington - TBS
5.908 million viewers, #1; 2.527 million adults 18-49 (2.0 rating), #1

MLB Division Series: Baltimore at New York - TBS
5.066 million viewers, #2; 1.818 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #2

Girl Vs. Monster - Disney
4.919 million viewers, #3; 1.040 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #3

Dog with a Blog (9:40) - Disney
4.504 million viewers, #4; 0.917 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #4

WWE Smackdown - Syfy
2.570 million viewers, #5; 0.889 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #5

Yukon Men (10:00) - Discovery
2.021 million viewers, #6; 0.888 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #6

Haven - Syfy
1.724 million viewers, #7; 0.635 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #7

NASCAR Nationwide Series - ESPN
1.526 million viewers, #8; 0.449 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #14

Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (9:30) - TLC
1.421 million viewers, #9; 0.520 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #9

Secret Princes - TLC
1.383 million viewers, #10; 0.624 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #8

Real Time With Bill Maher - HBO
1.315 million viewers, #11; 0.504 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #10

Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (9:00) - TLC
1.217 million viewers, #12; 0.471 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #12

Yukon Men: Hunt for Survival Revealed - Discovery
1.144 million viewers, #13; 0.481 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #11

College Football: Navy at Central Michigan - ESPN2
0.884 million viewers, #14; 0.307 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #17

America's Most Wanted (10:00) - Lifetime
0.839 million viewers, #15; 0.315 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #16

America's Most Wanted (9:00) - Lifetime
0.807 million viewers, #16; 0.326 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #15

The Ultimate Fighter Live (10:00) - FX
0.624 million viewers, #17; 0.469 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #13

Monsters Inside Me - Animal Planet
0.474 million viewers, #18; 0.170 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #18

Boss - Starz
0.340 million viewers, #19; 0.129 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #19

Source: Nielsen Media Research





  [october 2012]  
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
 


· SHOWATCH
(series past and present)
· DEVWATCH
(series in development)
· MOVIEWATCH
(tv movies and mini-series)





most recent ratings | view all posts
[01/28/26 - 06:36 AM]
FOX Scores 46 Million Viewers for NFC Championship Between NFC West Rivals
The Seahawks are soaring to the Super Bowl.

[01/28/26 - 06:01 AM]
AFC Championship Game Is This Year's Most-Watched NFL Postseason Game as "NFL on CBS" Caps Off Record-Setting Season
Patriots-Broncos averaged 48,618,000 viewers and peaked with 57,759,000.

[01/27/26 - 12:01 PM]
Netflix Top 10: Week of January 19 - "The Rip" Is Right on the Money at No. 1 in This Week's Top 10
Audiences kept the suspense going as they streamed the murder-mystery thriller "His & Hers," putting the series at No. 1 on the English TV list with 17.2 million views.

[01/26/26 - 01:23 PM]
UFC Delivers Historic Night in Paramount+ Debut
UFC 324 on Saturday, January 24 delivered nearly five million streaming views and over seven million households, the platform's largest exclusive live event to date.

[01/23/26 - 12:44 PM]
"20/20" Improves on the Previous Week in Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49, Hitting an 8-Week High in the Key Adult News Demo
"20/20" ranked No. 1 in its two-hour time period in Adults 25-54.

[01/23/26 - 12:28 PM]
ABC News' "Nightline" Ranks No. 1 in Total Viewers
"Nightline" posted double-digit increases week to week in Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49.

[01/23/26 - 10:31 AM]
"College GameDay Built by The Home Depot" Closes Out Historic Season with 2.6 Million Viewers Highlighting Hurricanes and Hoosiers
The six postseason GameDay shows delivered 2.4 million average viewers, up 30 percent year-over-year.

[01/23/26 - 07:37 AM]
Historic Back-to-Back Stretch: ESPN Delivers Its No. 1 and No. 8 Most-Watched Events Ever on Consecutive Days
Across Sunday and Monday, fans consumed 18.7 billion total minutes across ESPN, ABC and ESPN2 - a 28% increase from last season's Divisional Round game and Championship Monday on the same networks.

[01/22/26 - 03:39 PM]
Special Premiere of "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins" Is the Season's Most-Watched Comedy Episode
The series drew 5.8 million viewers and a 1.4 rating in the 18-49 demo in its special premiere that aired Sunday, January 18.

[01/22/26 - 02:05 PM]
ESPN's MegaCast of the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T Delivers 30.1 Million Viewers - The Most-Viewed College Football Game in 11 Years
The game scored 30.1 million viewers, the most-watched college football game since the inaugural CFP National Championship (33.9 million viewers, Oregon/Ohio State, 2014-15) and the second most-watched National Championship of the CFP era.

[01/22/26 - 12:48 PM]
ABC Wednesday Comedies Score with Stellar Midseason Premieres
"Shifting Gears" and "Abbott Elementary" are among top scripted shows of the week in adults 18-49.

[01/22/26 - 07:58 AM]
NBC Sports Delivers Its Most Watched NFL Divisional Playoff Game on Record as Rams-Bears Thriller Averages 45.4 Million Viewers on NBC & Peacock
The audience for Rams-Bears - which increased in every quarter hour from 8:15 p.m. ET until the game-winning score - peaked in the game's closing minutes, with an average of 52.6 million viewers from 9:45-10 pm ET.

[01/21/26 - 10:58 AM]
ABC's Tuesday Dramas Soar with Midseason Premieres
In fact, "High Potential" and "Will Trent" were the top two scripted programs of the week among Total Viewers.

[01/20/26 - 01:01 PM]
Netflix: What We Watched the Second Half of 2025
"KPop Demon Hunters" took the world by storm, breaking records as our most-watched title over a six-month period with 482M views.

[01/20/26 - 12:01 PM]
Netflix Top 10: Week of January 12 - "The Rip" Confiscates the No. 1 Spot in This Week's Top 10
Mistrust was the theme of the week, as viewers put the murder-mystery thriller "His & Hers" at No. 1 on the English TV list with 29.5 million views.