Fox and CBS split weekly honors again

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It’s a familiar pattern which was repeated in Week 24 of the television season: CBS won the Household ratings, but Fox won the big money 18-49 demo. Likewise, “NCIS” on CBS was the most-watched show, but “American Idol” on Fox was tops with the young crowd.


In HH CBS scored an average 6.5 rating and 11 share, with Fox at 6.1/10, ABC 4.1/7, NBC 3.6/6, Univision 1.9/3, CW and Ion 0.8/1, Telemundo 0.7/1, TeleFutura 0.4/1 and Azteca America and EstrellaTV 0.1/0.

In 18-49 Fox was at 3.4/9, CBS 2.2/6, ABC and NBC 1.9/5, Univision 1.5/4, Telemundo 0.5/1, Ion and TeleFutura 0.3/1, EstrellaTV 0.1/0 and Azteca America 0.0/0.

Here are the week’s top 20 programs:

The   Nielsen Company Broadcast Ranking Report
Network primetime   (Live + SD) week of 02/27/12 – 03/04/12
Rank Program Network HH Rating HH Share 2+ Audience (000)
1 NCIS CBS 11.3 17 18200
2 AMERICAN IDOL-THURSDAY FOX 10.8 17 18452
3 AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY FOX 10.1 16 17228
4 NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 9.9 15 15853
5 AMERICAN IDOL TUE SP-2/28(S) FOX 9.4 14 16110
6 VOICE NBC 8.7 13 14894
7 FOX NASCAR DYTONA 500 MON(S) FOX 8.0 14 13669
8 CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 7.8 12 12539
9 FOX DAYTONA 500REDFLG-BNS(S) FOX 7.5 13 12471
9 TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 7.5 11 11921
11 BLUE BLOODS CBS 7.4 13 11469
12 60 MINUTES CBS 7.3 12 11508
13 CSI CBS 7.1 12 11298
14 BIG BANG THEORY, THE CBS 7.0 11 11109
14 MODERN FAMILY ABC 7.0 11 11631
16 CSI: MIAMI CBS 6.5 11 10139
16 UNFORGETTABLE CBS 6.5 11 9928
18 GOOD WIFE, THE CBS 6.4 10 9833
19 2 BROKE GIRLS CBS 6.3 9 10182
19 MIKE & MOLLY CBS 6.3 9 10116
Source:   The Nielsen Company