Nielsen Fast Nationals From Wednesday, June 6, 2007

This will be quick. FOX comes in first with So You Think You Can Dance having 4.5/12. They also take second place in the 8 o’clock hour with 2.9/10. For third place was ABC’s Next Best Thing (premiere) having 2.8/9. And forth would be CBS’s CSI:NY having 2.7/8.
Ever thought that every reality show that FOX has, would have to have an element of humilation involved. What’s up with that? Have we really become so cynical as a society that we would watch in droves to see someone fall flat on their face?

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

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Wednesday, June 6, 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.