Here are Nielsen ratings for the top 20 prime-time shows nationally and network newscasts for last week.
TOP NETWORKS
For the week, ABC averaged 12.1 million viewers, Fox had 11.3 million, CBS had 10.4 million, NBC had 6.4 million, the CW had 1.2 million and ION Television had 0.94 million
NETWORK EVENING NEWS
NBC’s “Nightly News,” first, averaging 9.3 million viewers; ABC’s “World News Tonight,” second, averaging 7.9 million viewers; “CBS Evening News,” third, averaging 6.2 million viewers.
1. Academy Awards, ABC, 41.7 million
2. Oscar’s Red Carpet, ABC, 25.33 million
3. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 23.56 million
4. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 23.53 million
5. NCIS, CBS, 19.62 million
6. American Idol (Thursday), Fox, 19.42 million
7. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 16.86 million
8. The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 15.73 million
9. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 15.59 million
10. The Bachelor, ABC, 15.15 million
11. Barbara Walters Special, ABC, 14.99 million
12. The Mentalist, CBS, 14.87 million
13. NCIS: Los Angeles, CBS, 14.84 million
14. The Bachelor: After the Final Rose, ABC, 13.91 million
15. The Good Wife, CBS, 13.32 million
16. Criminal Minds, CBS, 13 million
17. Survivor: Heroes and Villains, CBS, 12.72 million
18. CSI: NY, CBS, 12.35 million
19. CSI: Miami, CBS, 12.07 million
20. Grey’s Anatomy, ABC, 11.83 million
