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[12/03/13 - 02:52 PM]
Friday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: CBS Tops Viewers, Demos with "Garth Brooks, Live from Las Vegas"
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select final nielsen ratings
(national numbers for friday, november 29, 2013)

Here are the highlights of 33 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast and cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Garth Brooks, Live from Las Vegas (9:00) - CBS
8.855 million viewers, #1; 2.290 million adults 18-49 (1.80 rating), #1

Dateline NBC (8:00) - NBC
7.071 million viewers, #2; 1.479 million adults 18-49 (1.16 rating), #4

Good Luck Jessie: NYC Christmas (8:00, 60 Minutes) - Disney
5.788 million viewers, #3; 1.300 million adults 18-49 (1.02 rating), #5

Grimm (9:00) - NBC
5.723 million viewers, #4; 1.677 million adults 18-49 (1.32 rating), #2

20/20 (10:00) - ABC
4.992 million viewers, #5; 1.152 million adults 18-49 (0.91 rating), #7

Gold Rush (9:00) - Discovery
3.662 million viewers, #6; 1.657 million adults 18-49 (1.31 rating), #3

Jinxed (7:00) - Nickelodeon
3.185 million viewers, #7; 0.570 million adults 18-49 (0.45 rating), #16

Dracula (10:00) - NBC
2.842 million viewers, #8; 1.154 million adults 18-49 (0.91 rating), #6

WWE Smackdown - Syfy
2.641 million viewers, #9; 0.974 million adults 18-49 (0.77 rating), #9

Bering Sea Gold (10:00) - Discovery
2.193 million viewers, #10; 1.045 million adults 18-49 (0.82 rating), #8

College Football (7:00) - FS1
2.179 million viewers, #11; 0.787 million adults 18-49 (0.62 rating), #11

Raising Hope (9:00) - FOX
1.746 million viewers, #12; 0.756 million adults 18-49 (0.60 rating), #12

College Basketball (6:53) - ESPN
1.729 million viewers, #13; 0.617 million adults 18-49 (0.49 rating), #13

Raising Hope (9:30) - FOX
1.632 million viewers, #14; 0.803 million adults 18-49 (0.63 rating), #10

Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (9:30) - TLC
1.358 million viewers, #15; 0.499 million adults 18-49 (0.39 rating), #18

The First 48 (10:00) - A&E
1.323 million viewers, #16; 0.596 million adults 18-49 (0.47 rating), #15

House Hunters (10:00) - HGTV
1.312 million viewers, #17; 0.395 million adults 18-49 (0.31 rating), #28

House Hunters International (10:30) - HGTV
1.310 million viewers, #18; 0.433 million adults 18-49 (0.34 rating), #25

The First 48 (9:00) - A&E
1.272 million viewers, #19; 0.597 million adults 18-49 (0.47 rating), #14

Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (9:00) - TLC
1.253 million viewers, #20; 0.473 million adults 18-49 (0.37 rating), #20

College Basketball (9:08) - ESPN
1.222 million viewers, #21; 0.491 million adults 18-49 (0.39 rating), #19

My Santa - ION
1.209 million viewers, #22; 0.316 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #32

Four Weddings (10:00) - TLC
1.042 million viewers, #23; 0.412 million adults 18-49 (0.32 rating), #27

Tanked (10:00) - Animal Planet
0.996 million viewers, #24; 0.442 million adults 18-49 (0.35 rating), #24

Deadly Women (9:00) - ID
0.920 million viewers, #25; 0.457 million adults 18-49 (0.36 rating), #21

Wives with Knives (10:00) - ID
0.919 million viewers, #26; 0.445 million adults 18-49 (0.35 rating), #23

Ridiculousness (8:00) - MTV
0.917 million viewers, #27; 0.525 million adults 18-49 (0.41 rating), #17

Facing Evil with Candice DeLong (8:30) - ID
0.886 million viewers, #28; 0.448 million adults 18-49 (0.35 rating), #22

Nikita (9:00)* - CW
0.855 million viewers, #29; 0.304 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #33

Facing Evil with Candice DeLong (8:00) - ID
0.820 million viewers, #30; 0.391 million adults 18-49 (0.31 rating), #29

The Dead Files (10:00) - Travel
0.709 million viewers, #31; 0.337 million adults 18-49 (0.27 rating), #30

Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory (8:30) - MTV
0.660 million viewers, #32; 0.416 million adults 18-49 (0.33 rating), #26

Guy Code (9:00) - MTV
0.504 million viewers, #33; 0.319 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #31

[EDITOR'S NOTE: As of press time, numbers for Strike Back: Origins (10:00), Hello Ross (10:00), Time of Death (9:00) were not available.]

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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