In With the New Out With the Old

www.cnn.com reported on Wednesday that the new TV shows are greatly affecting the Nielson Media Research’s Prime Time Rankings and pushing out the older shows that have often been commodities for the networks. A ratings point represents 1096000 households, or 1 percent of the nations estimated 109.6 million homes.
Lasts week’s study of the prime time rankings showed that five of the top 18 programs being watched were freshmen scripted shows. New shows such as “Desperate Housewives”, “Lost”, “Medium” and “House” beat out shows such as Survivor. CBs won the week, averaging 13.4 million viewers. Fox won amongst the closely watch young viewers with 10.2 million viewers.