Nielsen Fast Nationals From Thursday, May 10, 2007

I enjoy Thursday night because it means that the weekend is right about to begin. ABC comes in first with Grey’s Anatomy having 8.1/21. CBS had CSI coming in second with 5.7/15. Not far behind in third was also CBS’s Survivor: Fiji having 4.7/14. And rounding out forth place was a tie between CBS’s Without a Trace (special) having 4.0/11 and ABC’s The Traveler (special) having 4.0/11.

My Two Cents:

Thursday nights are my favorite nights of the week. I have noticed that more people will go out on a Thursday night than any other night. That is one of the reasons why I find these numbers to be so incredible. Also, I’m wondering what demo are they finding Grey’s Anatomy to be so dominant. Are there nothing but 30ish and older women to answer these surveys?

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

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Thursday, May 10, 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.