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Millennium's Nielsen Ratings

Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and was founded in 1923.

The system has been updated and modified extensively since it was developed in the early 1940s by Arthur Nielsen. It has since been the primary source of audience measurement information in the television industry around the world. Since television as a business makes money by selling audiences to advertisers, the Nielsen Television Ratings are the single most important element in determining advertising rates, schedules, and program content.

The company is part of the Nielsen Company, formerly known as VNU and owned by a consortium of private equity firms including Blackstone Group, KKR and Carlyle Group. Its US production operations are located in its Brooker Creek Global Technology and Information Center in Oldsmar, Florida. Its UK operations are based in Oxford.

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Ratings/share and total viewers

The most commonly cited Nielsen results are reported in two measurements: ratings points and share, usually reported as (ratings points/share). A single national ratings point represents one percent of the total number of households for the season. Share is the percentage of television sets in use tuned to the program.

For example, Nielsen may report a show as receiving a 9.2/15 during its broadcast, meaning that on average 9.2 percent of households were tuned in at any given moment (i.e. how many televisions in the country were in use at that time). Additionally, 15 percent of all televisions in use at the time were tuned into this program (i.e. how many of those televisions were watching this particular show). Nielsen re-estimates the number of households each August for the upcoming television season.

Courtesy of Wikipedia contributors, "Nielsen Ratings," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen Ratings.

Part 2 - Millennium's Nielsen Ratings Analysis

In the second part of our unique look at the Nielsen Ratings for Chris Carter's Millennium television series, we plot the statistical data onto graphs and Libby provides an analysis of the rating trends.

Millennium Episode Profiles

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Millennium Episode Profiles:

Millennium Season One

Millennium Season 1 Nielsen Ratings
#MLM Code	Episode Title	Nielsen Rating
#MLM-100	Pilot	11.9
#MLM-101	Gehenna	8.1
#MLM-102	Dead Letters	8.1
#MLM-103	Kingdom Come	7.2
#MLM-104	The Judge	7.6
#MLM-105	522666	7.6
#MLM-106	Blood Relatives	7.5
#MLM-107	The Well-Worn Lock	6.8
#MLM-108	Wide Open	6.9
#MLM-109	Weeds	7.6
#MLM-110	The Wild and the Innocent	7.1
#MLM-111	Loin Like a Hunting Flame	8.0
#MLM-112	Force Majeure	7.1
#MLM-113	The Thin White Line	6.8
#MLM-114	Sacrament	6.4
#MLM-115	Walkabout	6.3
#MLM-116	Covenant	6.9
#MLM-117	Lamentation	6.7
#MLM-118	Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions	6.7
#MLM-119	Broken World	6.8
#MLM-120	Maranatha	6.3
#MLM-121	Paper Dove	6.6

Millennium Season Two

Millennium Season 2 Nielsen Ratings
#MLM Code	Episode Title	Nielsen Rating
#MLM-201	The Beginning and the End	7.3
#MLM-202	Beware of the Dog	6.5
#MLM-203	Sense and Antisense	6.7
#MLM-204	Monster	6.0
#MLM-205	A Single Blade of Grass	6.7
#MLM-206	19:19	6.1
#MLM-207	The Curse of Frank Black	5.7
#MLM-208	The Hand of Saint Sebastian	6.7
#MLM-209	Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense'	5.6
#MLM-210	Goodbye Charlie	5.6
#MLM-211	Midnight of the Century	5.6
#MLM-212	Luminary	5.7
#MLM-213	The Mikado	5.4
#MLM-214	Owls	5.5
#MLM-215	The Pest House	5.7
#MLM-216	Roosters	5.4
#MLM-217	Siren	5.8
#MLM-218	In Arcadia Ego	5.5
#MLM-219	Anamnesis	5.3
#MLM-220	A Room With No View	4.8
#MLM-221	Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me	5.7
#MLM-222	The Fourth Horseman	4.7
#MLM-223	The Time Is Now	4.9

Millennium Season Three

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#MLM Code	Episode Title	Nielsen Rating
#MLM-301	The Innocents	5.2
#MLM-302	Exegesis	4.5
#MLM-303	TEOTWAWKI	4.8
#MLM-304	Closure	5.1
#MLM-305	...Thirteen Years Later	5.4
#MLM-306	Skull and Bones	5.1
#MLM-307	Through a Glass, Darkly	5.1
#MLM-308	Omerta	4.8
#MLM-309	Human Essence	4.4
#MLM-310	Borrowed Time	5.3
#MLM-311	Collateral Damage	5.8
#MLM-312	The Sound of Snow	4.7
#MLM-313	Antipas	4.6
#MLM-314	Matryoshka	4.6
#MLM-315	Forcing the End	4.1
#MLM-316	Saturn Dreaming of Mercury	4.2
#MLM-317	Bardo Thodol	3.8
#MLM-318	Darwin's Eye	3.75
#MLM-319	Seven and One	3.7
#MLM-320	Nostalgia	4.35
#MLM-321	Via Dolorosa	5.0
#MLM-322	Goodbye To All That	4.3

NB. Please note that the ratings for Midnight of the Century, Darwin's Eye and Nostalgia are estimated.