Grey's at #3...

For this week’s assignment, we had to look up the Neilson ratings for our favorite TV show. Automatically Grey’s Anatomy came to my mind. I have been watching this show since it started two years ago and I will drop whatever I am doing to watch it every Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. on ABC. For the day of 3/22/07 Grey’s had a rating of 14.4. Since one point equals 1,102,000 households, 15,868,800 households were watching it with me this week. The share was 22.0, and this means that 22 percent of homes were watching on this particular Thursday, putting Grey’s Anatomy number three on the Network Primetime Averages. Grey’s happens to be at the perfect time because the only competition it has is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Scrubs, which are not even on the top 20 list. Most people will pick Grey’s Anatomy over CSI because there are so many other shows like CSI (CSI: Miami and Criminal Minds) playing at other times during the week. What if Grey’s happened to move to another date or time? This would affect the ratings greatly because people would have to choose between some of their favorite shows. Just think if it was an hour earlier on Thursday’s. It would have to compete with Ugly Betty; which is a very popular show right now. I still think that more people would watch Grey’s because Ugly Betty only had a rating of 7.3 compared to the 14.4 for Grey’s Anatomy. The only show that beat Grey’s Anatomy in ratings was American Idol. If they were played at the same time its hard to tell who would watch what. I think more people would watch Idol because you can always watch Grey’s online after. This brings up a good point because who knows what people would watch if both their favorite shows were on at the same time. They could just choose one, and then watch the other one later on the Internet.