BUOYED BY GRAMMYS, CBS TIES WITH NBC.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. tied with NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. in the weekly ratings competition last week, benefiting from the Grammy Awards Grammy Awards Annual awards given by the Recording Academy (officially the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences). The first Grammies (the name is a dimunitive of “gramophone”) were given in 1958. telecast and two showings of ``Touched by an Angel.'' NBC's Thursday night lineup accounted for the week's top five shows in Nielsen Media Research's rankings, but its numbers were down because three of those programs were reruns. CBS and NBC both had a 10.6 household rating and audience shares of 18 for the week, Nielsen said Tuesday. ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. was third with an 8.9 rating and 15 share. Fox had a 7.8 rating and 13 share. A ``Seinfeld'' repeat was easily the week's most-watched show. The Grammy Awards telecast was the week's 10th-rated show. However, the music awards show's 13.4 rating was the second lowest since CBS began televising it in 1974, Nielsen said. Only 1995's program drew a lower rating. A ``Touched by an Angel'' repeat on Sunday finished 12th for the week, and a special showing of the program Tuesday was 15th. David Letterman still has numbers trouble. His video special Monday night was beaten by a John Stossel ``Freeloaders'' program on ABC and the second half of an NBC movie. Letterman's stupid pet tricks "Stupid Pet Tricks", and, subsequently, "Stupid Human Tricks", are well-known segments on Late Night with David Letterman, and, later, The Late Show with David Letterman. were watched by fewer people than his network's ``World's Most Dangerous Animals'' special. Fox drew its highest ratings of the week for two ``reality'' shows: ``World's Scariest Police Chases'' and ``When Disasters Strike 2.'' Among the two emerging networks, UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation led with a 2.9 rating and 5 share, while the WB had a 2.5 rating and 4 share. A rating point represents 970,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 97 million TV homes. Share is the percentage of those televisions tuned to a given show during a specified time period. NBC's ``Nightly News'' and ABC's ``World News Tonight'' finished in a dead heat for the week with an 8.7 rating and 17 shares. ``The CBS Evening News'' had a 7.7 rating and 15 share. CAPTION(S): Box Box: (Nielsen ratings) |
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