Nielsen Ratings

Nielsen Ratings

Nielsen Ratings are a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the television audience size viewership. Below are available ratings for each episode of Heroes.

Season One

Date	Episode	18--49 year-old rating	18--49 year-old share	18--49 year-old viewers (in millions)	Total viewers (in millions)	Fast Nationals rating	Fast Nationals share
09/26/06	Genesis	5.9	14		14.10
10/03/06	Don't Look Back	5.3	13		12.57
10/10/06	One Giant Leap	5.9	14		13.31
10/17/06	Collision	5.7	13		13.07
10/24/06	Hiros	6.2	15		14.27
10/31/06	Better Halves	6.4	15		14.74
11/08/06	Nothing to Hide	6.6	15		14.33
11/14/06	Seven Minutes to Midnight	6.5	16		15.01
11/21/06	Homecoming	6.9	16		15.99
11/28/06	Six Months Ago	6.7	16		15.52
12/05/06	Fallout	6.5	15		15.02
01/23/07	Godsend	6.5	15		14.84	8.5	12
01/30/07	The Fix	6.1	14		13.57
02/06/07	Distractions	6.4	15		14.56	8.6	12
02/13/07	Run!	6.3	14		14.68
02/20/07	Unexpected	6.0	14		14.02
02/27/07	Company Man	6.4	15		14.27
03/06/07	Parasite	6.6	16		14.90
04/24/07	.07%	5.3	13		11.98	7.2	11
05/02/07	Five Years Gone	5.4	13		11.94	7.0	10
05/08/07	The Hard Part	5.0	12		11.08
05/16/07	Landslide	5.2	13		11.41
05/22/07	How to Stop an Exploding Man	6.1	15		13.21
05/30/07	Season Average	6.1	14		13.84

Season Two

Date	Episode	18--49 year-old rating	18--49 year-old share	18--49 year-old viewers (in millions)	Total viewers (in millions)	Fast Nationals rating	Fast Nationals share
09/24/07	Four Months Later...	7.3	17	9.58	14.10	8.1	12
10/01/07	Lizards	5.5	13	7.26	11.96	7.0	10
10/08/07	Kindred	5.1	12	6.66	10.91	6.4	9
10/15/07	The Kindness of Strangers	5.2	12	6.80	11.41	6.8	10
10/22/07	Fight or Flight	4.9	11	6.46	10.80	7.1	11
10/29/07	The Line	4.9	11	6.45	10.51	6.1	9
11/05/07	Out of Time					6.0	9
11/06/07	Season Average	5.48	12.67	7.20	11.62	6.79	'10.00

Notes

• The Fast Nationals rating and share are released one to two days following the airing of an episode. The information mainly comes from electronic methods of data collection (i.e. DVR and Nielsen boxes).
• The final Nielsen rating and share is released the following week after a program airs, and includes additional slower-to-process data including from non-electronic data collection methods such as mail-in and website submitted surveys. The above tables log the final Nielsen results for households with members aged 18-49.
• The rating, whether Fast Nationals or final Nielsen, refers to the percentage of total USA households who watched the program. Share is a similar percentage, but is restricted to those households who were actually watching TV. Thus, the share is usually greater than the rating and can never be less than the rating.

Sources

• Fast Nationals rating and share are available one to two days after airing from Zap2It.com (rating/share is specified next to the program name)
• 18--49 year-old rating and share (final Nielsen version) are published on the pifeedback.com forum by the following week
• 18--49 year-old viewers is published at tvbythenumbers.com the following week as well

Trivia

• The final 2006-2007 TV Season ratings lists Heroes in 21st place among other television shows.