Nielsen Fast Nationals From Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Wednesday night’s ratings. FOX comes in first with So You Think You Can Dance having 3.5/11. Coming in second was FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance 8:30 o’clock hour having 3.2/11. Coming in third was NBC’s Dateline having 3.1/10. Coming in forth was Don’t Forget the Lyrics having 2.9/9.

I haven’t watched any of these shows, but I will, some day. Something that looks like a chart but NOT, c’ya around after the jump. . .

Wednesday July 18, 2007
8:00
ABC Next Best Thing: Who is the Greatest Celebrity Impersonator 1.9/7
CBS * King of Queens 1.6/6
NBC * Most Outrageous TV Moments 1.9/7
FOX So You Think You Can Dance 2.8/10
CW * America’s Next Top Model 0.6/2
MyN American Heiress

8:30
ABC Next Best Thing: Who is the Greatest Celebrity Impersonator 2.2/7
CBS * King of Queens 1.7/6
NBC * Most Outrageous TV Moments 2.1/7
FOX So You Think You Can Dance 3.2/11
CW * America’s Next Top Model 0.7/2
MyN American Heiress

9:00
ABC American Inventor 2.1/7
CBS * Criminal Minds 1.8/6
NBC Last Comic Standing 2.4/8
FOX So You Think You Can Dance 3.5/11
CW * America’s Next Top Model 0.6/2
MyN Saints and Sinners

9:30
ABC American Inventor 2.3/7
CBS * Criminal Minds 1.9/6
NBC Last Comic Standing 2.7/8
FOX Don’t Forget the Lyrics 2.9/9
CW * America’s Next Top Model (Special) 0.7/2
MyN Saints and Sinners

10:00
ABC Traveler 1.4/4
CBS * CSI: NY 2.2/6
NBC Dateline 2.9/9

10:30
ABC Traveler 1.3/4
CBS * CSI: NY 2.4/7
NBC Dateline 3.1/10

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Wednesday, July 18, 2007

* Signifies repeat

Who Won The Night

Rember this isn’t a chart
ABC 1.9/6
CBS 1.9/6
NBC 2.5/8
FOX 3.1/10
CW 0.6/2
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.