Football big for Fox and CBS

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Fox won the 18-49 demo and CBS Households for the most recent week – and in both cases, NFL football playoffs played a big roll. The NFC playoff game on Fox was the week’s top-rated show, while the AFC playoff game on CBS was #2.


For the week, CBS posted an HH rating of 8.2 and a 13 share, with Fox close behind at 7.9/12. Then it was NBC 5.1/8, ABC 5.0/8, Univision 1.7/3, CW 1.6/2, MyNetworkTV 0.0/1, Telemundo 0.7/1, Ion and TeleFutura 0.3/1, and Azteca America 0.1/0.

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

Here are the week’s top 20 shows.

Nielsen Television Index Ranking Report

Network primetime (Live + SD) week of 01/07/08 – 01/13/08

Rank

Program

Network

Rating

Share

Audience (000)

1

FOX NFC PLAYOFF-PST-SUN(S)

FOX

18.8

29

32509

2

AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF-SA(S)

CBS

17.9

30

30896

3

ALLSTATE BCS NATL CHAMP(S)

FOX

14.4

22

23069

4

GREY’S ANATOMY-THU 9PM

ABC

11.6

17

17679

5

CSI

CBS

11.2

17

18185

6

TERMINATOR: SRH CNR CHRON

FOX

11.1

16

18359

7

LAW AND ORDER:SVU

NBC

9.9

17

15153

8

COMANCHE MOON 1(S)

CBS

9.4

14

15760

9

WITHOUT A TRACE

CBS

9.3

16

13828

10

CRIMINAL MINDS

CBS

8.9

14

14303

11

DEAL OR NO DEAL-WED

NBC

8.4

13

13469

12

EXTRM MAKEOVER:HM ED-1/13(S)

ABC

8.3

12

14004

13

NCIS

CBS

8.1

13

12410

14

BROTHERS & SISTERS

ABC

7.4

12

10898

14

DANCE WAR:BRUNO/CARRIEANN

ABC

7.4

11

11001

14

LAW AND ORDER

NBC

7.4

12

11022

17

CSI: NY

CBS

7.3

12

11709

18

TWO AND A HALF MEN

CBS

7.2

10

11391

19

FAMILY GUY

FOX

6.9

10

11331

20

AMAZING RACE 12

CBS

6.8

10

11649

Source: Nielsen Media Research