Nielsen Fast Nationals From Thursday July 12, 2007

Thursday night’s ratings. FOX comes in first and second and forth with So You Think You Can Dance and Don’t Forget the Lyrics and Are You Smarter Than a 5^th Grader? having 3.6/11 and 2.7/10 and 2.1/8. Not far behind in third, CBS’s Big Brother 8 having 2.2/8.

I know that you’re waiting for some witty remark, but I just want to finish the day and start the weekend. Stick around after the jump. . .

Thursday July 12, 2007
8:00ABC * Ugly Betty 1.0/4
CBS Big Brother 8 2.2/9
NBC * My Name is Earl 1.5/6
FOX Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? 2.1/8
CW * Smallville 0.7/2
MyN Movie: Hotel Rwanda

8:30ABC * Ugly Betty 1.0/4
CBS Big Brother 8 2.2/8
NBC * My Name is Earl 1.7/6
FOX Don’t Forget the Lyrics 2.7/10
CW * Smallville 0.7/2
MyN Movie: Hotel Rwanda

9:00ABC * Grey’s Anatomy 1.2/4
CBS * CSI 2.1/7
NBC * The Office 1.8/6
FOX So You Think You Can Dance 3.5/11
CW * Supernatural 0.7/2
MyN Movie: Hotel Rwanda

9:30ABC * Grey’s Anatomy 1.2/4
CBS * CSI 2.6/8
NBC * 30 Rock (Special) 1.5/4
FOX So You Think You Can Dance 3.6/11
CW * Supernatural 0.7/2
MyN Movie: Hotel Rwanda

10:00ABC * Men in Trees 1.0/3
CBS * Shark 2.0/6
NBC * The Office (Special) 1.8/6

10:30ABC * Men in Trees 1.0/3
CBS * Shark 1.9/6
NBC * Scrubs (Special) 1.4/5

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Thursday, July 12, 2007

* Signifies repeat

Who Won The Night

Rember this isn’t a chart
ABC 1.1./4
CBS 2.2/7
NBC 1.6/5
FOX 3.0/10
CW 0.7/2
MyN

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.