Nielsen Fast Nationals From Tuesday, May 22, 2007

And it’s another Tuesday of ratings. FOX comes in first with American Idol having 10.1/27. Far behind in second was ABC’s Dancing with the Stars: Results having 7.0/18. And with a close third place, ABC’s Dancing With the Stars: Results 9 o’clock hour having 5.9/15. Not far behind in forth was FOX’s On the Lot (special) having 5.0/13.

My Two Cents:

To all the authors of the site, remember to provide an image in the teasepic textfield and choose a category for some of the automated processes for your work to show on the Buzzgasm and “mini” Buzzgasm sections.

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

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Tuesday, May 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.