Not a lot of TV viewing Friday night. Numbers were low across the board, but someone had to come out on top. For the early hour it was 1 vs 100 who beat all the odds and pulled a higher number than a rerun of Jennifer Love Hooters GHOST WHISPERER. At nine, LAS VEGAS struck gold taking the number one slot with an 8 share, though it may be fools gold since the rating was a puny 2.7 and 3.0 but even that was enough to claim the title of the most watched shoe of the night. . . Bad bad news for television in an internet 2.0 generation.
LAW AND ORDER & 20/20 flip flopped from one half hour to the next but NUMBERS still...well, pulled no numbers, also known as sucked.
For a complete ratings breakdown from Friday night, stick around after the jump. . .
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.