| Scoreboard |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.92 | 6.42 | 3.85 | 2.68 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.8/6 | 2.0/6 | 1.3/4 | 0.9/3 |
Full details:
| Time | Network | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | CBS | Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials | 8.10 | 2.0/7 |
| FOX | Cops | 6.33 | 2.0/7 | |
| NBC | Crusoe (finale) | 3.12 | 0.7/2 | |
| ABC | Movie: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (8p-10p) | 2.86 | 1.0/3 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | NCIS (R) | 7.26 | 1.5/5 |
| FOX | America's Most Wanted | 6.51 | 2.0/6 | |
| NBC | Saturday Night Live Sports Special (9p-11p) | 4.22 | 1.5/5 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 8.09 | 1.8/6 |
| ABC | Life on Mars (R) | 2.33 | 0.7/2 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
For more information see Numbers 101.
Hold on a minute, CBS aired a full hour of commercials and 8 million people watched?
Haha! Doesn’t get much better than that.
So long, Crusoe.
WOW!!! this is very very intersting i think networks will look at these numbers and say….” i think saturday nights can become something”
this would be a great show for the CW and a good chance for the network to expand its male programing and outside of smallville and supernatural and fill in those gaps on sunday and friday nights. too bad that wont happen because stupid Dawn Ostroff wants it too be The Chicks and Womens Network. other than 90210, gossip girl, smallville and supernatural, the network would be a complete disaster. oh wait… it already is, its time too start some changes please.
Can someone please tell me CBS’ Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials was really a full hour of commercials?
I think people are broke and so theyy stayed home knowing they’ll spend a little on Super Sunday or just planned for their Super parties…
Tom…I do believe yes – they are rated as the most popular and/or funniest commercials to air during the Superbowls from the past…this show runs every year the night before the big game…
life on mars rocks!