Friday Ratings: NBC Makes a Week End Mark

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Up until now, CBS has traditionally dominated Friday nights with its Ghost Whisperer/Numb3rs combo. But could Jay Leno potentially change that? Although we’re still a week away from finding out, the program got off to a nice start this weekend. Primetime’s new 10:00 show helped give NBC a win in both the viewers and the demos.

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• Dateline NBC (2.0/7 in 18-49) averaged 7.4 million over two hours.
• Approximately 5 million watched the finale of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (1.0/4).
• Ghost Whisperer* (1.1/4) pulled in 4.6 million.
• The 2009 Alma Awards (0.6/2) attracted 2.2 million.
• Smallville* (0.6/2) dialed up 1.6 million.

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