Last week, a lot of folk were traveling and very few stood by their TV sets as shown by the overall low numbers on Wednesday night. The alphabet scored decent ratings for such a low numbered night with their Shitner helmed SHOW ME THE MONEY, but was still edged out by the circular story telling of the people in the town of JERICHO. No one wanted to hear Madonna's secrets as her CONFESSIONAL TOUR started near the bottom of the pack, and stumbled into dead last in its second half hour. Maybe now that she's got her AARP card, it may be time for he to come out with SEX II. . . not that I still own the original, nor the CD that it came with. . . cause I totally don't.
The Moonves network grabbed the #1 spot at 8pm and with the helpful sex appeal of Mandy Patinkin crossed with the subtle writing of CSI: NY maintained its lead throughout the night nearly doubling all of the other major networks in viewers and shares.
For more of the Neilsen ratings from Wednesday night (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.