Audience chooses between Talent and Hell

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NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” won the Households rating crown for the past week, but in the 18-49 demo is was Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” which barely missed making the top 20 for HH. So, Fox still won the key demo and NBC still finished second to CBS in HH.


By the numbers, CBS had an HH rating of 3.8 and a 7 share, with NBC 3.6/6, Fox .2/6, ABC 2.9/5, Univision 1.7/3, MyNetworkTV 1.0/2, CW 0.7/1, Telemundo and TeleFutura tied at 0.5/1, Ion 0.4/1 and Azteca America 0.1/0.

For 18-49 it was Fox, a tie by NBC and CBS, Univision, ABC, MyNetworkTV, a three-way tie by CW, TeleFutura and Telemundo, Ion and Azteca America.

The Nielsen Company Broadcast Ranking Report

Network primetime (Live + SD) week of 08/17/09 – 08/23/09

Rank

Program

Network

HH Rating

HH Share

2+ Audience (000)

1

AMERICA’S GOT TALENT-TUE

NBC

7.1

12

11880

2

AMERICA GOT TALENT-WED 9P

NBC

6.6

11

10673

2

NCIS

CBS

6.6

12

9851

4

TWO AND A HALF MEN

CBS

5.5

9

8549

5

MENTALIST, THE

CBS

5.4

10

7846

6

BIG BANG THEORY, THE

CBS

5.2

8

8039

7

60 MINUTES

CBS

5.1

10

7774

8

CSI

CBS

4.9

8

7417

9

BIG BROTHER 11-TUE

CBS

4.8

8

7979

10

DATELINE NBC-MON

NBC

4.7

8

6853

10

MILLIONAIRE-8/23(S)

ABC

4.7

8

7592

12

MILLIONAIRE-8/17(S)

ABC

4.6

8

7056

13

CRIMINAL MINDS

CBS

4.5

8

6822

13

MILLIONAIRE-8/19(S)

ABC

4.5

8

6871

13

MILLIONAIRE-8/20(S)

ABC

4.5

8

6781

16

CSI: MIAMI

CBS

4.4

8

6419

16

DATELINE FRI

NBC

4.4

8

6311

18

BIG BROTHER 11-SUN

CBS

4.3

8

7477

18

BIG BROTHER 11-THU

CBS

4.3

8

6748

18

NFL ON FOX PRESEASON 2(S)

FOX

4.3

8

6657


Source: The Nielsen Company