CBS wins 1st week of season, but ABC wins 18-49s

Steve Safran September 26th, 2006

It’s that time of year! No - not the start of the fall season, although it is that, too. It’s the start of the “No, WE won the ratings when you look at a given demographic” season. And while Lost Remote knows the whole concept of TV ratings and its limited demo measurement is d-e-a-d, we’ll nonetheless report the following: CBS took in the most viewers (13 million) for the first week of the new fall season. But ABC was number one among the 18-49 year-olds. And there’s this sentence from TV Week, which I never thought I’d read (emphasis added): “ABC also had the top-rated show for the week in adults 18 to 49 with the Thursday season premiere of “Grey’s Anatomy,” which scored an 11.0 rating, which includes live viewing and same-day viewing via digital video recorders, according to Nielsen Media Research.” DVRs count in ratings! Woo Hoo!