It's like I keep typing the same thing, man! FOX comes in first with So You Think You Can Dance having 3.5/10. Coming in second was FOX’s Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader with 3.2/11. Not far behind in third was CBS's Shark with 2.1/7. Guess what's next? Wow! You're pretty good -- forth place goes to NBC's The Office (special) with 2.0/6. Now, some might see some numbers of CBS's CSI having 2.7/8, but that was a repeat -- do you guys count that, because I don't. I know advertising guys count that and isn't that what makes the world go round? Is to get a soccer Mom to spend more of Daddy's money.
Catch ya after the jump. . .
Nielsen Fast Nationals
From Thursday, June 21, 2007
Who Won The Night
Rember this isn’t a chart
- FOX 3.1/10
- CBS 2.1/7
- NBC 1.9/6
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.