Nielsen Overnights From Tuesday, April 24, 2007

I’ll give you three guesses as to who won last night. Give up! OK, Fox comes in first with American Idol having 26. I bet you wouldn’t have thought that would happen. FOX had Housecoming in second with 21. ABC’s Dancing with the Stars Results Show coming in third and having 17. CBS’s NCIS coming in fourth and having 15.

My Two Cents:

I cannot believe that American Idol won! What a shocker! I’m stunned. Aren’t you? No! you’re not! You think I’m pulling you’re leg. Come on! What I do that to you? Not me.

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, April 24, 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.