CBS, 'CSI: Miami' Do End-Run Around ABC's Football
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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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After further review, the ABC promotion for last week's Eagles-Cowboys &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; was over the top.
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A double shot of "Survivor: Vanuatu," a triple dose of "CSI" and a dash of "The Amazing Race 6" drove CBS to an easy victory in primetime in the week that ended Dec. 12.
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Some may call it exploiting racial tensions. CBS calls it darn   good television.
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An ABC-TV cross-promotion on &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; for the new series &quot;Desperate Housewives&quot; worked a little too well, so the network apologized all over itself yesterday.
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ABC News ended an investigation into a consultant it fired for falsifying his rÃ©sumÃ© and concluded that the reporting he contributed to the network was sound.
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LOS ANGELES  - CBS cruised to an easy  victory on Thursday with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"  cresting the 30 million viewer mark and NBC sitting out part of  the night with repeats.
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LOS ANGELES  - Monster viewer turnouts  for the AFC Championship Game on CBS and for the return of  "American Idol" on Fox determined the network rankings for the  week ended Jan. 23, with CBS and Fox finishing No. 1 and No. 2  among total viewers and adults 18-49.
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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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Four hours of "Survivor:  China" and a new "CSI" spelled a double-barreled win in the  ratings last week for CBS.
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ABC has pulled its contract offer to the Bowl Championship Series, a move that could result in three of college football&#39;s biggest games moving to another network.
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It should have been the showcase game to kick off a new season. Old rivals, new league. National television on Labor Day evening -- Monday night football on ABC. Florida State vs. Miami at the Orange Bowl, an Atlantic Coast Conference showdown.
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If ABC hoped to generate a little bit more buzz for Monday Night Football and &quot;Desperate Housewives,&quot; its risquÃ© intro to the Dallas-Philadelphia game sure did the trick.
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LOS ANGELES  - On a busy Tuesday night  of season premieres, CBS led the prime-time pack by a wide  margin throughout the night with the finales of "Big Brother 5"  and "The Amazing Race 5."
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The intro to Monday Night Football should result in no scrutiny this time for ABC and the NFL.
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Monday was a night of dueling dramas in primetime. Fox and NBC parried with "24" and "Las Vegas" at 9 p.m., and then at 10 p.m., NBC's hot midseason entry "Medium" made it a horse race with CBS' "CSI: Miami."
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-Ratings Breakdown: Mirroring all summer, CBS led Thursday care of Big Brother 8 (4.4 rating/9 share), a repeat of CSI (6.5/12), and a repeat of Without a Trace (#1: 6.9/12). All three shows ranked first in the overnights in every half-hour. As for Big Brother 8 (which I have not seen yet due to the late start on the East Coast), apparently evicted contestant Amber made some very controversial comments that CBS did not televise. For more information, click on http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/30/tv.bigbrother.ap/index.html. Needless to say, I am happy she is gone.