CBS Is Week's Prime-Time Ratings Champ

Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:38 PM EST

NEW YORK — It seems nothing trips up "Dancing with the Stars."

Nudged from the top spot the week before as the crimebusters from "CSI:Crime Scene Investigation" and "Without a Trace" joined forces to rank No. 1 and 2, respectively, Monday's "Dancing" edition stepped right back to its No. 1 position last week — with Tuesday's "Results" edition close behind at No. 4.

Other ABC shows did well, too, including "Grey's Anatomy" (No. 3), "Samantha Who?" (No. 15 and the season's most-watched new series), and "The American Music Awards" special, which ranked 20th.

But overall the week belonged to CBS, which had a dozen of the top 20 prime-time shows.

NBC continued to falter, lodged in fourth place behind Fox.

For the week, CBS was first with an average 11.95 million viewers (7.7 household rating, 12 share), according to Nielsen Media Research. Runner-up ABC had 10.37 million viewers (6.8 rating, 11 share).

Fox had 8.54 million viewers (5.3 rating, 8 share), trailed by NBC with 8.24 million viewers (5.2 rating, 8 share), the CW with 2.96 million viewers (1.9 rating, 3 share), My Network TV with 1.11 million viewers (0.7 rating, 1 share), and ION Television with 550,000 viewers (0.4 rating, 1 share).

Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision averaged 3.84 million viewers (2.0 rating, 3 share), followed by Telemundo with 930,000 viewers (0.5 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura with 730,000 viewers (0.4 rating, 1 share) and Azteca with 240,000 viewers (0.1 rating, 0 share).

In the neck-and-neck evening news race, ABC's "World News" and NBC "Nightly News" were tied with 9.08 million viewers (6.3 rating, 12 share for ABC; 6.1 rating, 12 share for NBC). "CBS Evening News" averaged 6.67 million viewers (4.7 rating, 9 share).

A ratings point represents 1,130,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 112.8 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.

For the week of Nov. 12-18, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "Dancing with the Stars" (Monday), ABC, 21.81 million; "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 21.37 million; "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 19.61 million; "Dancing with the Stars" (Tuesday), ABC, 17.59 million; "NCIS," CBS, 17.39 million; "House," Fox, 16.95 million; "Criminal Minds," CBS, 15.73 million; "CSI: Miami," CBS, 15.46 million; "Survivor: China," CBS, 14.68 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.63 million.

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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is a division of CBS Corp. Fox is a unit of News Corp. NBC is owned by General Electric Co. Telemundo is owned by General Electric. TeleFutura is a division of Univision. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. Azteca America is a wholly owned subsidiary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V.

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