Big ratings week for NBC and Jay Leno

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“The Jay Leno Show” on NBC had a big debut week, with four of the five shows in the Nielsen top 20 for the week, for both Households and 18-49, and the other at #21. Add in the finale of “America’s Got Talent” and the week’s #1 show, “NBC Sunday Night Football,” and it was a really big week for the Peacock net.


For the week, NBC average an HH rating of 7.3 and a 12 share, followed by CBS 5.3/9, Fox 3.3/6, ABC 2.9/5, Univision 1.8/3, CW 1.3/2, MyNetworkTV 1.0/2, Ion 0.5/1, Telemundo and TeleFutura 0.4/1, Azteca America 0.1/0.

In the 18-49 demo, it was NBC, CBS, Fox, a tie by Univision and ABC, CW, MyNetworkTV, a tie by TeleFutura and Telemundo, Ion and Azteca America.

Here are the week’s top 20 shows.

The Nielsen Company Broadcast Ranking Report

Network primetime (Live + SD) 09/14/09 – 09/20/09

Rank

Program

Network

HH Rating

HH Share

2+ Audience (000)

1

NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL

NBC

15.1

25

24817

2

JAY LENO SHOW-MON

NBC

11.5

19

18418

2

SUNDAY NIGHT NFL PRE-KICK

NBC

11.5

19

18910

4

CBS NFL NATL POST GAME

CBS

9.7

18

15515

5

AMERICA GOT TALENT-WED 9P

NBC

9.5

16

15788

6

EMMY AWARDS(S)

CBS

8.7

14

13471

7

AMERICA GOT TALENT 9/14(S)

NBC

8.5

13

13902

7

JAY LENO SHOW-WED

NBC

8.5

15

13363

9

60 MINUTES

CBS

8.4

14

13122

10

FOOTBALL NT AMERICA PT 3

NBC

8.3

14

13362

11

NCIS

CBS

8.0

13

12435

12

JAY LENO SHOW-TUE

NBC

7.1

12

11085

13

SURVIVOR: SAMOA – SPECIAL(S)

CBS

6.8

11

11664

14

BONES

FOX

6.3

11

10363

15

BIGGEST LOSER 8

NBC

6.2

10

9900

15

MENTALIST, THE

CBS

6.2

11

9069

17

CSI

CBS

5.7

9

8800

17

JAY LENO SHOW-THU

NBC

5.7

10

8823

19

CSI: NY

CBS

5.2

9

7756

20

DATELINE FRI

NBC

5.1

10

7380


Source: The Nielsen Company