People are still watching DEAL OR NO DEAL despite the fact that an all new HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER aired last night. Oh well, I won't pretend to understand people, I just report on their daily viewing habits. The audience for TWO AND A HALF MEN is growing faster than the half man playing a large role in placing the Chenbot Network at the top spot of the night. I suppose CSI: DAVID CARUSO'S A CANCER, may have played a small role in that success since it did draw in large numbers in key demos, but I'd like to think thats only because it goes up against some craptastic programming on the other networks, and CW & FOX don't air new programming at 10pm.
For more of last nights ratings (18 -49) 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.