Spotted Ratings, Saturday 12/10/11 (FINALS)

WHAT MATTERS:

• It was a very special Saturday, with all of the three-hour networks devoting at least two hours to special programming. The demo champ was CBS thanks to this year's second helping of Rudolph (though it only got 40% of its demo from Tuesday 11/29/11). ABC rode the Republican Debate to the total viewer crown, while NBC completely bombed with the American Giving Awards, one of the lowest-rated programs in the history of broadcast TV.

FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Share	Skew	Last	Lead	LeLa	Avg	Rank	TRUE
Nightline: Bringing America Back	3.0	0.5	1	21%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.36
ABC Republican Debate	7.6	1.2	4	20%	n/a	+140%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.57
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	5.1	1.6	5	40%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.63
The Flight Before Christmas	4.5	1.2	4	34%	n/a	-25%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.28
48 Hours Mystery	5.5	1.3	4	30%	n/a	+8%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.72
American Giving Awards	1.5	0.3	1	26%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.28
Law and Order: SVU (R)	3.1	0.7	2	29%	-36%	+133%	-50%	-28%	7/7	0.98
Cops	3.8	1.2	4	40%	-8%	n/a	n/a	-6%	6/11	1.35
Cops (R)	4.0	1.3	4	42%	-19%	+8%	-8%	+8%	2/5	1.19
Terra Nova (R)	2.3	0.6	2	33%	+0%	-54%	-19%	-17%	2/5	0.48

KEY (with much more detail at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page):

Viewers - The total number of viewers (age 2+, in millions) that watched the program.
A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Share - Adults 18-49 share. Percentage of US TV-watching adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of the total audience that falls in the 18-49 demo.
Last - A18-49 percent difference from previous episode.
Lead - A18-49 percent difference from lead-in program.
LeLa - A18-49 percent difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Avg - A18-49 percent difference from the show's average demo for previous original episodes this season.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes that have aired so far this season.
TRUE - True Strength, a metric developed last summer that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in.

(R) - Repeat.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.