Easy pickens, when the world's most beautiful woman is not on TV. CBS comes in first and second with Numbers having 2.8/9 and CBS’s Dr. Phil: Caged (special) having 2.3/8. Coming in third was ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos having 1.9/7. And rounding out forth place was a tie between CBS’s Dr. Phil: Caged (special) 9 o'clock time having 1.8/6 and ABC's National Bingo Night (premiere) having the same.
For Saturday, ABC comes in first The Pacifier (movie) having 2.1/7. FOX had America's Most Wanted coming in second with 1.9/7. FOX comes in third with COPS having 1.8/7.
For Sunday, ABC comes in first, ties for second and third with Desperate Housewives having 19, Brothers and Sisters and CBS’s 60 Minutes having 15 and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition having 14. Coming in forth was my favorite show on TV, FOX's Simpsons with 11.
For the complete ratings from last night and who won the night (in key demos), stick around after the jump. . .
Nielsen Fast Nationals
From Friday, May 18, 2007
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Who Won The Night
Nielsen Fast Nationals
From Saturday, May 19, 2007
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Who Won The Night
Nielsen Fast Nationals
From Sunday, May 20, 2007
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Who Won The Night
How do I read these ratings?
A Nielsen rating may look like this:
8pm - NBC - TVgasm The TV Show - 10.0/18
Focus on the 10.0/18. The RATING, 10.0, on the left represents the actual number of households that watched a show. One rating point equals 1,102,000 households. The SHARE, 18, on the right represents the show's proportion of the total households watching television at that time.
For example, TVgasms TV Show has a 10 rating/18 share. That means 11,020,000 households are tuned in to the show and 18% of all the households with a TV turned on are watching that show.
Ratings and Share are customarily broken down for various DEMOs -- a demographic grouping of viewers, like 18-49 adults or 2-12 children or 18-34 women, etc. Advertisers, and therefore networks, covet the 18-49 adult demo, and so tend to concentrate on that number.