FOX BOWLED over the competition last night as the BCS BOWL scored big when nearl one in four televisions sets turned on last night were tuned into the FOX to watch the pigskin shuffle. But this isnt ESPN.com, this is TVgasm.com so moving on. . . at the Eight oclock hour nearly all shows tied for second. At nine, TWO AND A HALF MEN once again dominated the pack (except that whole monster ratings at FOX thing) when Berta's daughter (Sara Rue) popped in for another visit. THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE also faired well breaking off a 4.1/9 in key demos even while up against the dominating 10.6/24 that the BCS BOWL snagged.
America still hasn't gotten the memo that CSI:MIAMI is a terrible craptastic suckfest of David Caruso's pomptastic ego and that easily dominated at ten o'clock with 10% of the key demo market.
For complete ratings from last 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.