Friday September 5, 2008 10:22 pm
Thursday Ratings: Giants Score Win for NBC
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Specials, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Grey’s Anatomy, Ratings,
A Thursday night football game - coupled with John McCain’s RNC speech - gave NBC an easy win in both categories last night.
8pm
- Approximately 13.6 million (5.4/15 in 18-49) watched the NY Giants defeat the Washington Redskins on NBC.
- Big Brother 10 (6.5 million, 2.2/7) stumbled by 700,000.
- A 2-hour Kitchen Nightmares (2.4/7) debuted to 5.3 million.
- Ugly Betty* (4.2 million, 1.1/3) was down 1 million.
- A repeat of 90210* (1.0/3) picked up 2 million.
Programming Insider
9pm
- CSI* (7.3 million, 1.9/5 in 18-49) had a 400,000 slide.
- Grey’s Anatomy* (4.2 million, 1.2/3) scraped off 1.2 million.
10pm
- NBC‘s coverage of the RNC (3.2/9 in 18-49) pulled in 8.1 million.
- John McCain drew in 5.1 million (1.4/4) for CBS.
- ABC‘s political hour (1.4/4) reached 5 million.
*denotes repeat
(You can review last Thursday’s ratings here.)
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