List of Nielsen ratings (TRS)

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This is the list of Nielsen ratings the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica has received during each episode initial broadcast in the United States. The series was always transmitted in the US by the Sci Fi Channel. The numbers below are the household rating numbers, and not the total viewers.

Note that the methodology for the ratings changed during the timespan in which the series was originally broadcast. The ratings available before 2008 (Seasons 1-3 and Razor) do not factor delayed viewing (DVRs, etc.), whereas the ones for 2008 (Season 4.0) take the same day viewers into account in addition to the live viewers. In addition, with Sci Fi Wire no longer publishing the free 'Nielsen Galaxy Report', the only numbers available for 2009 (Season 4.5) are in fact the total number of viewers. To provide comparable numbers, the ratio between the number of total viewers and the household rating was used to scale the ratings for the rest of Season 4.5 episodes.

Season 1

Episode US Airdate Nielsen rating
Miniseries, Night 1 2003-12-08 3.2
Miniseries, Night 2 2003-12-09 3.8
33 2005-01-14 2.6
Water 2005-01-14 2.6
Bastille Day 2005-01-21 2.3
Act of Contrition 2005-01-28 2.5
You Can't Go Home Again 2005-02-04 2.5
Litmus 2005-02-11 2.5
Six Degrees of Separation 2005-02-18 2.2
Flesh and Bone 2005-02-25 2.5
Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down 2005-03-04 2.1
The Hand of God 2005-03-11 2.2
Colonial Day 2005-03-18 2.3
Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I 2005-03-25 2.2
Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II 2005-04-01 2.5

Season 2

Episode US Airdate Nielsen rating
Scattered 2005-07-15 2.6
Valley of Darkness 2005-07-22 2.0
Fragged 2005-07-29 2.0
Resistance 2005-08-05 1.9
The Farm 2005-08-12 2.0
Home, Part I 2005-08-19 2.1
Home, Part II 2005-08-26 2.1
Final Cut 2005-09-09 2.0
Flight of the Phoenix 2005-09-16 1.9
Pegasus 2005-09-23 2.0
Resurrection Ship, Part I 2006-01-06 2.1
Resurrection Ship, Part II 2006-01-13 1.9
Epiphanies 2006-01-20 1.9
Black Market 2006-01-27 1.8
Scar 2006-02-03 1.9
Sacrifice 2006-02-10 1.8
The Captain's Hand 2006-02-17 1.7
Downloaded 2006-02-24 1.8
Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I 2006-03-03 1.8
Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II 2006-04-10 1.9

Season 3

Episode US Airdate Nielsen rating
Occupation 2006-10-06 1.8
Precipice 2006-10-06 1.8
Exodus, Part I 2006-10-13 1.6
Exodus, Part II 2006-10-20 1.5
Collaborators 2006-10-27 1.4
Torn 2006-11-03 1.5
A Measure of Salvation 2006-11-10 1.5
Hero 2006-11-17 1.3
Unfinished Business 2006-12-01 1.3
The Passage 2006-12-08 1.3
The Eye of Jupiter 2006-12-15 1.4
Rapture 2007-01-21 1.4
Taking a Break From All Your Worries 2007-01-28 1.5
The Woman King 2007-02-11 1.2
A Day in the Life 2007-02-18 1.2
Dirty Hands 2007-02-25 1.1
Maelstrom 2007-03-04 1.1
The Son Also Rises 2007-03-11 1.2
Crossroads, Part I 2007-03-18 1.4
Crossroads, Part II 2007-03-25 1.2

Season 4

Episode US Airdate Nielsen rating
Razor 2007-11-24 1.21
He That Believeth in Me 2008-04-04 1.6
Six of One 2008-04-11 1.4
The Ties That Bind 2008-04-18 1.4
Escape Velocity 2008-04-25 1.3
The Road Less Traveled 2008-05-02 1.3
Faith 2008-05-09 1.2
Guess What's Coming to Dinner? 2008-05-16 1.2
Sine Qua Non 2008-05-30 1.3
The Hub 2008-06-06 1.3
Revelations 2008-06-13 1.4
Sometimes a Great Notion 2009-01-16 1.6
A Disquiet Follows My Soul 2009-01-23 1.3
The Oath 2009-01-30 1.2
Blood on the Scales 2009-02-06 1.3
No Exit 2009-02-13 1.3
Deadlock 2009-02-20 1.2
Someone to Watch Over Me 2009-02-27 1.3
Islanded in a Stream of Stars 2009-03-06 1.2
Daybreak, Part I 2009-03-13 1.3
Daybreak, Part II 2009-03-20 1.7
The Plan Fall 2009 ?

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