Nielsen Fast Nationals From Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Wednesday night’s ratings. NBC comes in first with Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (Special) having 2.5/9. Coming in second was NBC’s Dateline NBC (Special) having 2.0/7. Coming in third was CBS’s Criminal Minds (special) having 1.6/6.

Something that looks like a chart but NOT, c’ya around after the jump. . .

Wednesday July 4, 2007
8:00 ABC * Next Best Thing: Who is the Greatest Celebrity Impersonator (Special) 1.2/5
CBS * CSI: NY (Special) 0.9/4
NBC * Most Outrageous TV Moments (Special) 1.2/5
FOX * Anger Management (Special) 1.2/5
CW Hidden Palms (Special) 0.3/1
MyN Fireworks (Special)

8:30 ABC * Next Best Thing: Who is the Greatest Celebrity Impersonator (Special) 1.2/5
CBS * CSI: NY (Special) 1.1/4
NBC * Most Outrageous TV Moments (Special) 1.5/6
FOX * Anger Management (Special) 1.2/5
CW Hidden Palms (Special) 0.3/1
MyN Fireworks (Special)

9:00 ABC * American Inventor (Special) 1.2/5
CBS * Criminal Minds (Special) 1.4/5
NBC Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (Special) 2.0/8
FOX * Anger Management (Special) 1.2/5
CW * America’s Next Top Model (Special) 0.4/1
MyN Fireworks (Special)

9:30 ABC * American Inventor (Special) 1.3/5
CBS * Criminal Minds (Special) 1.6/6
NBC Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (Special) 2.5/9
FOX * Anger Management (Special) 1.3/5
CW * America’s Next Top Model (Special) 0.5/2
MyN Fireworks (Special)

10:00 ABC * Traveler (Special) 1.0/4
CBS Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular (Special) 1.4/5
NBC Dateline NBC (Special) 1.9/7

10:30 ABC * Traveler (Special) 0.8/4
CBS Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular (Special) 1.8/7
NBC Dateline NBC (Special) 2.0/7

Nielsen Fast Nationals

From Wednesday, July 4, 2007

* Signifies repeat

Who Won The Night

Rember this isn’t a chart

• NBC 1.8/7
• CBS 1.4/5
• FOX 1.2/5

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.