More importantly, CBS' rating was 17 percent below the 19.5 that it had guaranteed advertisers. The Nagano Games were watched by an estimated 184 million viewers, tying it with Albertville for the third most-watched sports event in the country. The 1996 Summer Games were watched by about 209 million people and the 1994 Winter Games by 204 million. But because of the time difference, TNT went from showing a mix of live and taped events the past two Olympics to an entirely taped package. A rating point for CBS represents 980,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 98 million TV homes.
Share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
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