Univision ratings are measured in exactly the same way as the English networks (and have been for a bit over a year). They get that high a rating because they have that many viewers.

As for your second post, NCIS had far more viewers than House, but far fewer viewers aged 18-49 and 18-34 than House. All those “extra” viewers are either under 18 or over 49. The data we get does not allow us to know how many were in each group, but its likely far more were over 49.

Share is the percentage of TV viewers in a particular group actually watching TV at that time, as opposed to rating which is a percentage of all TV viewers in a particular group.

As for the number of 18-49 viewers for NCIS, they’re usually pretty consistent. However, since we publish only the top 20 the difference between being “just on the list” and “just off the list” may seem significant for our reporting purposes, but the actual difference between show #19 and show #21 is usually very small.

And Robert’s Thanksgiving post will answer more of your questions.

Which is odd, as my 40 year old parents love House, but find NCIS childish.

another question… if ncis has 6 million more viewers , but has a lower 3.7 rating/%… is neilsen saying that most of the 18 million viewers are under 18, and /or over 49 ??
because one of these “has ” to be wrong, on the one ncis has mmore total viewers,
but on the 3.7 % of the “universe of TV households” this indicates less people are watching ncis and more are watching house.
(or other specified group) = 18-49 ?
do advertisers realy not care about say the age 14-17 group?
also on th second number , the share, what is that ? it says a percent of total viewers, is that based on the first number, like the 18 million of ncis? it doesnt seem so or the number would be higher for ncis. but I gues it is the age group, which again doesnt make sense because why would nielsen monitor people over 49 , if they dont count in the ratings system??
I would think they would only monitor familes with all persons in the 49 and under category

and a qoute from above
1. NCIS has a relatively old audience compared to all broadcast prime-time shows.
2. NCIS had the 15th largest adults 18-49 audience recently last week,
so supposedly a bunch of younger people tuned in for that one show?????’
that doesnt make sense.

how ridiculous are those names for a TV show!!!!

I’ve been watching all of this soap operas, and REALLY, there`s not a big difference between this, and the american soap operas that air on the afternoons.

These are even more ridiculous, just add a litle bit more SEXISM and IGNORANCE

RViewer – interesting link regarding the NCIS spinoff. I believe CBS is following the “if it ain’t broke, copy it” formula. ABC did this too, with Boston Legal (Practice spinoff), and more recently Private Practice (GA apinoff). I’m personally sick of spinoffs and carbon-copies, but I guess I’m in the minority .

http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/398105571?r=785106571#785106571

Fringe got beat by The Mentalist by a respectable margin in the 18-34 demo.

Jose, you’re correct…I’ve corrected it in the table above.

RViewer, Cool,
These two statements:
1. NCIS has a relatively old audience compared to all broadcast prime-time shows.
2. NCIS had the 15th largest adults 18-49 audience recently last week, and is one of the most valuable properties on broadcast television.

Are both true and not mutually exclusive.

Somehow I don’t think it matter much to CBS since they seems to be working on a spin off according to this: http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2008/11/cbs-developing.html

Just call it “Dancing with the Has-Beens”. While I didn’t come up with that term, it sure made me laugh when I heard it.

(Julia with avatar from iPhone while igorning family bitching.)

Fringe was pretty good. House was very meh to me. I wholeheartedly agree with Joe Cool– there was a lot of filler in the House episode and it really didn’t need the extra 8 minutes. Guess the strategy worked though because those demo numbers are amazing!

The Mentalist is skewing kinda old too which concerns me. Though even IT did better than NCIS in the 18-34 demo. Sheesh, NCIS.

I’m not too surprised at the steeper drop than normal. 1.) people were tuning over to see who was going to win DWTS. 2.) though I thought it was very well done, the opening scene of Fringe likely terrified some people

Its amazing CW is still around. Its movies get 1 million viewes? There are cable networks with far less households available that get 3 million+ viewers.

Still not sure why FOX allowed HOUSE to screw thing up by running an extra 8 minutes. There was alot of that episode that could have been left on the cutting room floor; even though it was pretty good.

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving; it lacks something. Maybe that could add robots and lasers? Or maybe the Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future?

I am a little surprised that the *overall* numbers for House and Fringe are down a from last week, given that these two eps are the Sweeps enders for their shows. Holidays and maybe DWTS finale.

Dude. The demo numbers for House vs NCIS are insane!

it will be nice not to see them for the next month…

And both House and Fringe’s episodes last night were spec-freaking-tacular! I wonder if thses numbers will move Fringe up in the renew/cancel index more towards the bottom with the higher numbers?

Charlie Brown pulled in it’s usual. Kinda the same as when they air the Great Pumpkin!

She has a body most women could never have.

Hot Body! Brains! Beauty! All in ONE!!!!