Nielsen Fast Nationals From Thursday, May 17, 2007

Another excellent day of TV watching has past. ABC comes in first and second with Grey’s Anatomy having 9.0/23 and Grey’s Anatomy/Lost: The Answers 7.4/19. CBS had CSI coming in third with 6.4/16. Not far behind in forth was also NBC’s The Office having 4.0/12. And rounding out fifth place was CBS’s CSI (special) tieing with NBC’s ER having 4.0/11. Those are some pretty good shows.

My Two Cents:

Everyone have a safe and happy weekend. C’ya on Monday for the weekend ratings.

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 17, 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.