COLORADO TRAGEDY PUSHES NEWS UP, OTHER SHOWS DOWN IN RATINGS.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. Six network newsmagazines, all of them with reports on the Colorado school massacre, were among the 12 top-rated prime-time shows measured by Nielsen Media Research during the past week. The newsmagazines responded quickly with stories on the Littleton shooting, and viewers apparently couldn't get enough. ABC's ``20/20'' on Wednesday had more viewers than any other newsmagazine, and had its highest ratings of the year except for the Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted (after initially denying) to having had an "inappropriate relationship"[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. interview. For the first time, CBS' ``48 Hours'' on Thursday beat NBC's ``ER'' in the ratings, although the medical drama was a rerun re·run n. The act or an instance of rebroadcasting a recorded movie or a recorded television performance. tr.v. re·ran , re·run, re·run·ning, re·runs To present a rerun of. . Overall, viewership was down for the networks as they geared up for the May ratings ``sweeps'' period. CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. won the week with an 8.4 rating and 14 share, 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. was second with an 8.1 rating and 14 share, 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. had a 6.8 and 12, and Fox was at 6.1 and 10. Among the emerging networks, the WB had a 2.8 rating and 5 share, UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation had a 1.7 rating and 3 share, and Pax TV was at 0.8 and 1. The most popular show of the week was a new episode of NBC's comedy, ``Friends.'' ABC's drama ``The Practice'' had its second-highest rating in the history of the show. NBC's ``Nightly News'' did well during a busy news week, scoring its largest margin of victory over the ``CBS Evening News'' in more than two years. NBC had an 8.2 rating and 18 share, while CBS was at 6.5 and 14. ABC's ``World News Tonight'' was second with a 7.9 rating and 17 share. A rating point represents 994,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 99.4 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show. CAPTION(S): Photo, Box Photo: NBC's ``Friends,'' with Matt LeBlanc, left, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, topped the Nielsen list as the week's No. 1-rated show. Box: (Nielsen Ratings) |
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