The Ratings Report for Wednesday, October 25th

Another night of ratings and we're here to make it as simple as possible for you. Our apologies for being behind the ball today, but some personal stuff is keeping us away. We're also going to be behind the ball tomorrow as well so keep that in mind. Now, let's move on to the ratings report.

ABC can claim to be #1 on Wednesday evenings as they were able to just barely inch out CBS with a 9.6/15 for the evening to pull out roughly fourteen million visitors over the course of the night thanks in part to Dancing With The Stars and Lost. CBS would pull down 9.5/15 for roughly fourteen million viewers just like it's ABC counterpart and clinch second place. In terms of the number of viewers, ABC had 165,000 more to give you an idea of how close the race was. Coming in third was NBC with a 4.9/8 for seven million viewers while Fox managed to get a 3.8/6. In last place was the CW with a 3.0/5.

In the highly coveted, 18-49 demo, ABC would win that race as well with a 5.0 rating. CBS would finish second with a 4.3. In third and fourth, we have NBC with a 2.9 while the CW had a 2.1. Finally, Fox pulled up the rear with a 2.0. Now, let's break it down by hour and show.

ABC and Dancing with the Stars took first place for the 8PM hour with a 13.2/21 for a nice 19.85 million viewers for the highest season rating yet to date. In second place was the CBS rookie show Jericho with 6.8/11 for ten million viewers. Next we have a tie for third place, with NBC's 30 Rock and Twenty Good Years and CW's America's Next Top Model both getting a 3.7/6 for five million viewers, but NBC had more viewers slightly. America's Next Top Model is the highest rated show on the CW network this season. Fox trailed the networks with a washed out World Series resulting in a The War at Home episode that brought in a 3.5/6 for about 4.8 million viewers.

In the 9PM hour, we saw CBS take the hour with a 10.8/16 for 16.589 (per TV Guide) million viewers while ABC would come in second in terms of household with Lost getting a 10.3/15, but having more viewers with 16.795. That just goes to show you how crazy the ratings can be. Following those two shows, we have NBC taking third thanks to The Biggest Loser getting a 5.1/8 for seven million viewers. After that, The War at Home took fourth for Fox with a 4.0/6 for five million viewers while the CW got a 2.4/4 for 3.5 million viewers from One Tree Hill.

Finally, the 10PM hour saw CBS keep the lead with CSI: New York getting a 10.9/18 for seventeen million viewers while NBC's Dateline got a 6.0/10 for 8.5 million viewers. The Nine for ABC brought in a 5.2/8 for 8 million viewers.

That's it for the ratings. We're going to probably wrap up the day with a news roundup as we're having a fairly quiet day in the news arena.

More soon.

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