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Ratings: Chargers-Cowboys NFL preseason wins for NBC Sunday night
Fast National ratings for Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 The NFL preseason is in full swing and the Chargers-Cowboys match-up Sunday night led NBC to a win in both the total viewers and the adults 18-49 demographic. The Peacock averaged 8.9 million viewers and a 5.4 rating/9 share in households.
CBS was second with 6.7 million, 4.2/7, followed by ABC at 5.4 million, 34/6 and FOX at 2.6 million, 1.5/3.
In the adults 18-49 demographic, the order was the same. NBC won with 2.9, followed by CBS (1.7), ABC (1.3) and FOX (1.2)
Sunday hour by hour:
7 p.m.
CBS: "60 Minutes" (8.5 million viewers, 5.4/10 households)
NBC: "Dateline" (6.8 million, 4.3/8)
ABC: "America's Funniest Home Videos" rerun (5.2 million, 3.0/6)
FOX: "American Dad" rerun (1.7 million, 1.0/2) /"Bob's Burgers rerun (2.05 million, 1.2/2)
18-49 leader: "Dateline" (1.5)
8 p.m.
NBC: NFL Preseason football: Chargers at Cowboys (9.8 million, 5.9/10)
CBS: "Big Brother" (8.8 million, 5.1/9)
ABC: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" rerun (4.7 million, 2.9/5)
FOX: "The Simpsons" rerun (2.9 million, 1.7/3)/ "Cleverland Show" rerun (2.6 million, 1.5/3)
18-49 leader: "Big Brother" (3.3)
9 p.m.
NBC: NFL Preseason football: Chargers at Cowboys (10.3 million, 6.0/10)
ABC: "20/20" (5.95 million, 3.9/6)
CBS: "The Good Wife" rerun (4.2 million, 2.8/4)
FOX: "Family Guys" rerun (3.8 million, 2.2/4)/ "In the Flow with Affion Crockett" (2.5 million, 1.5/2)
18-49 leader: NFL Preseason Football (3.7)
10 p.m.
NBC: NFL Preseason football: Chargers at Cowboys (8.7 million, 5.3/9)
ABC: "20/20" (5.7 million, 4.0/7)
CBS: "CSI: Miami" rerun (5.2 million, 3.4/6)
18-49 leader: NFL Preseason Football (3.1)
Ratings information includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are preliminary and subject to change. Source: The Nielsen Company.
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Congrats to ABCE for anutter huge win! Sad that CBS continues to be for old poople and Spoilester's tampon ericthemidshit. Haha lol purr sad thins! Noww off to Yoda.
How much effect did WCBS-NY pre-empting their regular schedule to air the Jets game have on the ratings?
again she copied and pasted wrong:
ITS 20/20 THE SIXTH SENSE.
Where is preta???
9:00 NBC NFL: Chargers at Cowboys 3.7/10 10.26
FOX Family Guy (R) 1.7/5 3.80
ABC Sunday 20/20: The Sixth Sense 1.3/3 5.95
CBS The Good Wife (R) 1.0/3 4.19
9:30 FOX In the Flow with Affion Crockett 1.2/3 2.47
10:00 NBC NFL: Chargers at Cowboys 3.1/8 8.68
ABC Sunday 20/20: The Sixth Sense 1.4/4 5.87
CBS CSI: Miami (R) 1.2/3 5.23
M E O W= lost the job at Mcdonalds for yelling at old people when they ordered a senior coffee and didnt order anything else!
ericthemidshit = Spoilester's tampon
M E O W= needs a life..repeating the same thing over and over..but i shouldnt get mad M E O W is a product of our U S education system. People their is more coming like this thing. M E O W and the younger people growing up today care about 1 thing themselves !
M E O W= Chasity Bono
M E O W =is now Chaz Bono
Spoilester = ericthemidshit's tampon
M E O W..shut your piehole and stop saying the same f'n **** over and over again and please have Rick Porter do the ratings reports from here on out and useless douchebag M E o W...ABC sucked last night, just like you do.