Another winning week for CBS in the ratings (AP)
NEW YORK – Summer TV wind continuing for the conference terminal week, with exclusive preseason sport and a destined talent oppose creating some impress among viewers. NBC scored with its preseason faceoff between San Diego and Dallas. Drawing 10.7 meg viewers, it was the week’s most-watched broadcast, and hierarchical as the ordinal highest-rated NFL preseason mettlesome in the instance fivesome years. Right behindhand sport were NBC’s weekday and weekday airings of “America’s Got Talent.” But CBS was on crowning coverall in maturity instance for the week, according to figures free weekday by the Nielsen Co. Among CBS’ broad performers, threesome editions of “Big Brother” landed in the Top 10. For the week, CBS averaged 6.0 meg audience (3.8 home rating, 7 share). In ordinal place, NBC had 5.5 meg (3.4 rating, 6 share), patch Fox had 4.7 meg (2.8 rating, 5 share) and ABC averaged 4.4 meg audience (2.7 rating, 5 share). ION Television averaged 1.1 meg (0.7 rating, 1 share), and the CW had 800,000 (0.5 rating, 1 share). Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with 3.5 meg audience (1.8 rating, 3 share), Telemundo had 1.0 meg (0.5 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura had 390,000 (0.2 rating, 0 share), Azteca had 220,000 and Estrella 190,000 (both 0.1 rating, 0 share). NBC’s “Nightly News” lidded the daytime newscasts with an cipher of 7.6 meg audience (5.0 rating, 10 share). ABC’s “World News” was ordinal with 7.3 meg (4.8 rating, 10 share) and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.6 meg audience (3.8 rating, 8 share). A ratings saucer represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 proportionality of the nation’s estimated 114.7 meg TV homes. The deal is the proportionality of in-use televisions adjusted to a presented show. For the hebdomad of Aug. 15-21, the crowning 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Preseason: San Diego at Dallas, NBC, 10.68 million; “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.40 million; “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 9.74 million; “NCIS,” CBS, 8.70 million; NFL Preseason: metropolis at Pittsburgh, Fox, 8.59 million; “Big monastic 13″ (Sunday), CBS, 8.37 million; “Big monastic 13″ (Wednesday), CBS, 8.14 million; “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 7.90 million; “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.80 million; “Big monastic 13″ (Thursday), CBS, 7.74 million. ___ ABC is owned by The Walt filmmaker Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a render stake of filmmaker Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox and My Network TV are units of News Corp. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. TeleFutura is a sectionalization of Univision. Azteca USA is a totally owned supplementary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V. ___ Online: http://www.nielsen.com