Nielsen Fast Nationals From Friday, June 1-3, 2007

The quick and dirty. FOX comes in first with TV’s Funniest Moments (special) having 2.5/8. ABC comes in second place with 20/20 having 2.0/6. CBS’s Numbers comes in third with 1.7/6, which tied NBC’s Law & Order.

For Saturday, FOX and CBS tie for first with America’s Most Wanted and Ocean’s Twelve (movie Special) having 1.8/6. Also, FOX had Cops coming in second with 1.7/7. ABC comes in third with Minority Report (Movie special) having 1.1/4.

For Sunday, ABC comes in first with Extreme Home Makeover having 2.4/7. Coming in second was FOX with Bad Boys II (movie special) having 2.4/6. And coming in third, ABC with America’s Funniest Home Videos having 2.0/7

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

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Friday, June 1, 2007

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Who Won The Night

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Saturday, June 2, 2007

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Who Won The Night

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Sunday, June 3, 2007

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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.