Neilson Ratings Overnights — April 20-22, 2007

My favorite time of the week, I wonder why? Friday night was the night of the “ties” for first, second and third place. CBS and NBC tie for first place with Numbers and Law & Order having 10. CBS had two shows tie for second place Ghost Whisper and Close to Home with 9. ABC and NBC tie for third place with 20/20 and Raines having 8.

Saturday… CBS has first place with 48 Hours Mystery having 11. CBS had two shows tie for second place CSI: NY and NCIS with 10. FOX has third place with Nascar Racing: Nextel Cup in Phoenix having 8.

Sunday… ABC is first place with Desperate Housewives having 15. CBS is second place with 60 Minutes having 14. ABC has third and forth place with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition having 11 and America’s Funniest Home Videos having 10 and tied for fourth place with CBS’s Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness having 10.

My Two Cents:

Wow! Now, that is pretty good for a bunch of repeats.

For the complete ratings from last night and who won the night (in key demos), stick around after the jump. . .

Nielsen Overnights

From Friday, April 20, 2007

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Who Won The Night

Nielsen Overnights

From Saturday, April 21, 2007

* Signifies repeat

Who Won The Night

Nielsen Overnights

From Sunday, April 22, 2007

* Signifies repeat

Who Won The Night

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.