CBS, 'CSI: Miami' Do End-Run Around ABC's Football
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"CSI: Miami" was hot-to-trot in its third season premiere Monday, leading CBS to a victory for the night in total viewers and besting ABC's "Monday Night Football" in the key audience group of adults aged 18 to 49 during the 10 p.m. hour.
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CBS scored a clean sweep among young and old viewers during the third week of the new television season, while ABC showed signs that its two freshman successes may have staying power.
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LOS ANGELES  - CBS was the Nielsen poll  winner again on Monday as "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Two and a  Half Men" and "CSI: Miami" delivered strong numbers.
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By Michael Hiestand  CBS' NCAA men's basketball tournament coverage is one of the more unchanging formulas in TV sports, presumably delighting viewers who like their sports served straight, rather than as show biz.    But it could be tweaked.
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Three days after ABC took a pass on renewal of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), Fox took the ball and signed a four-year agreement to televise the BCS and a new college football championship game.
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ABC has pulled out of the television rights negotiations for the Bowl Championship Series, a source familiar with the talks said Friday.
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The first game based on 'CSI Miami' comes to the small screen as TV season begins.
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NEW YORK - During a week that CBS was fined $550,000 for Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash and its news division had to apologize for shoddy reporting, at least the prime-time ratings gave its executives something to smile about.    CBS handily won the ratings race during the first official week of the new television season, and stuck archrival NBC where it hurts the most: on Thursday night and among young viewers...
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CBS News may be taking a licking but CBS Entertainment is clicking on all cylinders. The network romped to an across-the-board ratings win in Week 1 of the 2004-2005 season.
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High-definition television and the National Football League are going to be entwined this season. All ABC and ESPN games are scheduled to be broadcast in HD. Fox plans to do as many as six games each week in HD, and CBS will do three. And each Wednesday and Thursday at 9 p.m., the NFL Network will have a 60-minute condensed ...
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LOS ANGELES  - "CSI: Miami" was  hot-to-trot in its third season premiere Monday, leading CBS to  a victory for the night in total viewers and besting ABC's  "Monday Night Football" in the key audience group of adults  aged 18 to 49 during the 10 p.m. hour.
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One of the big stories  heading into this season was ABC&#39;s decision to move &quot;Grey&#39;s  Anatomy&quot; against CBS powerhouse &quot;CSI: Crime Scene  Investigation&quot; at 9 p.m. Thursdays.
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CBS led the Monday ratings  with strong performances from "Two and a Half Men" and "CSI:  Miami," while NBC's "Heroes" was the top show in the coveted  adults 18-49 demographic.
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It has been a wild and in  some cases wacky season for network TV, culminating in a hunt  for millions of missing viewers that is so complicated that  it&#39;s worthy of its own episode of &quot;CSI.&quot;
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Even with a repeat of "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS was spry on Monday with "Two and a Half Men" and "CSI: Miami" leading the network to the nightly win.
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Even ABC's "Desperate Housewives" took a back seat Sunday to CBS' coverage of the AFC Championship bout that saw the New England Patriots clinch a slot in the Super Bowl after beating the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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ABC has pulled its latest contract renewal offer with the Bowl Championship Series, a move that could result in the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta bowls moving to another network starting in 2006.