Olympics trounce all comers

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There were only seven days of Beijing Olympics broadcast in the past week, which had the usual seven days, but NBC managed to claim the top eight positions in the Nielsen ratings with its Olympics broadcasts, adding a "Beijing Closing Party" to the mix. CBS proudly noted, though, that it had the "top 14 non-Olympic programs of the week."


So, the Gold medal went to NBC in both Households and 18-49, silver to CBS in both, bronze to ABC in Households and to Univision in 18-49.

The HH rundown was NBC with a 13.9 rating and 23 share, CBS 3.8/6, ABC 2.5/4, Fox 2.4/4, Univision 1.8/3, MyNetworkTV and CW tied at 0.9/2, Telemundo 0.6/1, TeleFutura 0.3/0, Ion 0.2/0 and Azteca America 0.1/0.

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

Here are the week’s top 20 shows. 

Nielsen Television Index Ranking Report
Network primetime (Live + SD) week of 08/18/08 – 08/24/08

Rank

Program Network  HH Rating HH Share 2+ Audience (000)
1 SUM OLYM TUE PRIME 2(S) NBC 16.3 27 26629
2 SUM OLYM MON PRIME 2(S) NBC 15.8 26 26374
3 SUM OLYM CLOSE CEREM(S) NBC 15.5 25 27834
4 SUM OLYM WED PRIME 2(S) NBC 15.2 26 24755
5 SUM OLYM THU PRIME 2(S) NBC 13.8 23 22438
6 BEIJING CLOSING PARTY(S) NBC 12.3 21 20577
7 SUM OLYM FRI PRIME 2(S) NBC 10.7 19 17876
8 SUM OLYM SAT PRIME 3(S) NBC 10.3 19 16756
9 TWO AND A HALF MEN CBS 5.3 8 8162
10 NCIS CBS 5.2 9 7610
11 FLASHPOINT CBS 4.9 8 7208
12 CSI CBS 4.8 8 7294
13 60 MINUTES CBS 4.5 8 6698
14 CSI: MIAMI CBS 4.3 7 6380
15 CSI: NY CBS 4.2 7 6055
16 BIG BROTHER 10-THU CBS 4.0 7 6167
16 COLD CASE 10PM CBS 4.0 7 5848
16 CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 4.0 6 5918
19 BIG BROTHER 10-SUN CBS 3.9 6 6040
19 BIG BROTHER 10-TUE CBS 3.9 6 6117
19 OLD CHRISTINE CBS 3.9 6 5749

Source: Nielsen Media Research