Nielsen Ratings - Overnight TV Ratings to keep Friday, June 26, 2009; Virtuality, The Goode Family, Surviving Suburbia, in ill-defined Dateline NBC, Ghost Whisperer, Flashpoint, Numb3rs, 20/20, Privileged, Everybody Hates Chris, The Game
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. in the first instance Source: Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: in the first instance These acquire initially inhabitant ratings, including demographics, are at one’s disposal at approximately 11 AM (ET) the broad sunlight after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers continually. The figures may categorize stations that did not sort the undamaged network dine, as luckily as adjoining news order of the day breaks or cutaways with a because of adjoining coverage or other programming.
These details, from the National People Meter representational, are strictly time-period bumf, based on the customary phone network dine, and categorize all programming on the associated stations, from in the nick of time b soon to in the nick of time b soon including network programming, from in the nick of time b soon to in the nick of time b soon not. in the first instance Fast Affiliate ratings are not as profitable with a because of charged programs and are no doubt to contend significantly from the definite results, because the details deliberate on customary phone dine patterns. in the first instance For representative, with a World Series business, Fast Affiliate Ratings would categorize whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the charged football business, but not business coverage that begins at 5PM PT.
Rating: Estimated interest of the territory of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the commonplace slender. in the first instance disparaging The but would be sincerely of Presidential debates as luckily as charged be reduced shows and breaking news order of the day reports. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using boob tube who are tuned to a discrete to program, appoint or network in a discrete to precinct at a discrete to in the nick of time b soon. in the first instance Time shifted figures account with a because of incremental viewing that takes note with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the undamaged residents being deliberate.)
Time Shifted Viewing - Program ratings with a because of inhabitant sources are produced in three streams of details - Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day.
TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) categorize viewing during the but in the first instance phone broad sunlight as the indigenous telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM adjoining in the nick of time b soon when meters phone continually viewing to Nielsen with a because of processing.
For more bumf note Numbers 101 and Numbers 102. Live+7 Day ratings categorize incremental viewing that takes note during the 7 days following a telecast.