If we told you that anything other than the NFC Championship game on Fox was the #1 show on television last week, you’d know we’re lying. And if you tie together the three pieces of Fox’s coverage of the New York-Green Bay game with two nights of “American Idol,” you have a clean sweep of the top five in the Nielsen household ratings.
That gave Fox an average HH rating for the week of 13.4 with a 21 share, followed way back by CBS at 6.3/10, NBC 5.1/8, ABC 4.1/7, Univision 1.8/3, CW 1.3/2, Telemundo and MyNetworkTV tied at 0.7/1, TeleFutura 0.4/1, Ion 0.3/1 and Azteca America 0.1/0.
Fox jumped to a commanding lead for the season-to-date in the key 18-49 demo, with the other three of the big four tied for second place. For the week the 18-49 rundown was Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, Univision, CW, Telemundo, a tie by TeleFutura and MyNetworkTV, and a final tie by Ion and Azteca America.
Here are the week’s top 20 shows.
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Nielsen Television Index Ranking Report |
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Network primetime (Live + SD) week of 01/14/08 – 01/20/08 |
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Rank |
Programs |
Network |
Rating |
Share |
Audience (000) |
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1 |
FOX NFC CHAMPIONSHIP(S) |
FOX |
29.0 |
43 |
53937 |
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2 |
FOX NFC CHAMPIONSHIP-GUN(S) |
FOX |
21.6 |
33 |
40640 |
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3 |
AMERICAN IDOL-TUESDAY |
FOX |
17.7 |
26 |
33415 |
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4 |
AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY |
FOX |
16.7 |
25 |
30437 |
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5 |
FOX NFC CHAMPIONSHIP-POST(S) |
FOX |
13.1 |
21 |
23096 |
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6 |
NCIS |
CBS |
9.9 |
15 |
15822 |
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7 |
CSI: MIAMI |
CBS |
9.7 |
16 |
14799 |
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8 |
CSI |
CBS |
9.1 |
14 |
14147 |
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9 |
DEAL OR NO DEAL-MON |
NBC |
9.0 |
14 |
15080 |
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10 |
WITHOUT A TRACE |
CBS |
8.8 |
15 |
13294 |
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11 |
LAW AND ORDER:SVU |
NBC |
8.1 |
13 |
12205 |
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12 |
COMANCHE MOON 2(S) |
CBS |
8.0 |
12 |
12564 |
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13 |
LAW AND ORDER |
NBC |
7.7 |
13 |
11593 |
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14 |
DEAL OR NO DEAL-WED |
NBC |
7.6 |
12 |
11807 |
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15 |
COMANCHE MOON 3(S) |
CBS |
7.5 |
12 |
12133 |
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16 |
TWO AND A HALF MEN |
CBS |
7.3 |
11 |
11510 |
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17 |
DANCE WAR:BRUNO/CARRIEANN |
ABC |
7.0 |
11 |
10495 |
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17 |
SMARTER THAN 5TH GRADER |
FOX |
7.0 |
11 |
11576 |
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19 |
NUMB3RS |
CBS |
6.4 |
11 |
10076 |
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19 |
UGLY BETTY |
ABC |
6.4 |
10 |
9505 |
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Source: Nielsen Media Research |
