Sub-Par Grammys Lead CBS to Weekly Ratings Win
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Despite hot competition from ABC's "Desperate Housewives," the 47th annual Grammy Awards drove CBS to the weekly win in total viewers and to a tie with Fox for bragging rights among adults 18-49.
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"Big Brother" and  always-popular repeats of "CSI" and "Without a Trace" lifted  CBS to an overpowering win in primetime Thursday.
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The television audience for the Grammy awards ceremony in the US falls to its lowest level since 1995.
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Helped by the last "Heroes"  for a while and a strong New Orleans Saints-Dallas Cowboys  matchup on "Sunday Night Football," ratings laggard NBC pulled  out a win in the key adults 18-49 demographic last week, while  CBS took a 12th consecutive week in viewership.
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NEW YORK  - NBC lapped the primetime  competition Tuesday as its Olympics coverage averaged 29.3  million viewers to second-ranked CBS' 8.2 million.
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From J.Lo to James Brown, Usher to U2, the Grammys had it all this year &#151; except a lot of interested viewers. An estimated 18.8 million people watched Ray Charles' swan song clean up with eight awards Sunday night, a startling 28 percent drop from the 2004 Grammys.
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CBS won Christmas week  in total viewers, while "NBC Sunday Night Football" was the top  program during the period.
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-Ratings Breakdown: CBS scored a clean Wednesday victory, with a first-place overnight finish in every half-hour as a result of Power of 10 (5.8/10), a repeat of Criminal Minds (6.4/10), and a repeat of CSI: NY (6.7/11). For more on Power of 10, which is a shoo-in for renewal, see TV Tidbits below. Obviously, if upcoming Wednesday 8 p.m. occupant Kid Nation crashes, CBS already has a replacement. Congrats, Drew Carey and Michael Davies!
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LOS ANGELES  - "CSI: Crime Scene  Investigation" cracked the 30 million-viewer mark again on  Thursday, leading CBS to an easy victory for the night.
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NBC dominated this uneventful second Friday of the Feb. 2008 sweeps, with a first-place finish in households, total viewers and adults 18-49.  Second overall was Fox, followed by CBS, NBC and the CW.  When the top-rated network doesn't even average seven million viewers there is obviously very little to say.
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NBC took top honors during  the last week before Christmas, winning the adults 18-49  demographic and claiming the two top shows, "Sunday Night  Football" and the season finale of "The Biggest Loser." CBS won  in viewership.
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LOS ANGELES  - "CSI: Crime Scene  Investigation" crested the 30 million-viewer mark again on  Thursday, leading CBS to an easy victory for the night.
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CBS dominated the first week of the new U.S. television season, ranking as the most watched network overall and winning target audiences with help from its "CSI" crime drama franchise, according to data issued on Wednesday.
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CBS won last week's  primetime ratings race in both viewership and the adults 18-49  demographic, while the network's adventure series "NCIS" took  advantage of the paucity of original episodes to become the  most-watched show for the first time in its four-season run.
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CBS and ABC fell to their  lowest ratings among the coveted adults 18-49 demographic in  two decades last week, as reruns and summer alternatives drove  viewers from their couches.
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NEW YORK  - CBS and ABC fell to their lowest ratings among the coveted adults 18-49 demographic in two decades last week, as reruns and summer alternatives drove viewers from their couches.
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Fox notched another victory  in the advertiser-friendly adults 18-49 demographic last week,  but CBS won the viewership stakes by just 60,000 people.