ABC wins the night. FOX leads on Cable.... [View All]

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FYI... A household share is the % of homes that watched the TV event.

Example... A 5.0 rating means 5% of all U.S. Households were watching the particular program.



A share is what % of viewers watching TV at a given time were watching the program in question.

Example... A 5.0 share means that of all the people watching TV at the given time, 5% of them were watching this specific program.




So when ABC gets a 7.1/11 rating. It means 7% of all TV households in the country were watching the program. And of all the households watching TV at the time, 11% of them were watching ABC.



Here are the debate rating results.

1) ABC-7.1/11

2) NBC-6.2/10

3) CBS-5.0/8

4) FOX Cable news- 4.7

5) CNN-4.1

6) FOX (network only)-3.1/5

7) MSNBC-2.2


In raw numbers, about 57 million people saw last nights debate. That is significantly lower than the number of viewers many "experts" thought would tune in to see Obama/McCain.