Jennifer Love Hooters scored big on Friday to an ever growing and rigid fan base. The Friday 8pm market is a very hard one to get turned on to a newer show, but GHOST WHISPERER has proven to be the cream of the crop in the top night hour, surely stroking the ego of all those involved and hopefully results in more boobies, sex, erect penis... Damn, I ran out of subtle innuendo way earlier than I thought I would. Anyway, her show did well. lt looks like what happens LAS VEGAS stays unseen as the ratings for the new episodes are slipping from November though still overtook CLOSE TO HOME in the second half as they flip flopped for first. CBS is still pulling in the NUMBERS at ten o'clock and winning the night overall in key demos.
For complete Nielsen ratings for Friday night, stick around after the jump. . .
<i>Sunday night ratings coming very shortly</i>
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.