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Columbia Broadcasting System's (CBS) CSI: NY is competing with National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) Law & Order. The steps taken by Zuiker creator of CSI, to make it more interesting are mentioned.

Monday MURPHY BROWN (CBS) vs. PARTNERS (Fox) The networks are engaged in trench warfare at 8 o'clock. Returning hits The Nanny (CBS), Melrose Place (Fox) and Fresh Prince of Bel [...]

NEW YORK -- ABC edged CBS for a second consecutive weekly win in the adults 18-49 demographic, though the Tiffany network again won the gold in viewership. The new season [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- As the summer television season nears a close, three high-profile unscripted skeins--NBC's 'The Restaurant,' CBS' 'The Amazing Race' and Fox's 'American Juniors'--ended their runs last week and await [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- Original unscripted programs continue to prop up the networks' ratings averages this summer, but it was repeats--led by CBS drama 'CSI'--that delivered some of the most impressive numbers [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- As the dog days of summer wear on, no reality program has caught fire in the ratings. But some are heating up. Last week saw the best scores [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- Fox, NBC and CBS continue to get good mileage out of their summer reality series, as last week each net delivered more viewers than the same frame a [...]

Shaq and Tiger helped NBC secure another primetime ratings victory last week, while Fox was making its own noise with the first two episodes of reality skein 'American Idol.' According [...]

Network has lowest-rated first week in its history; comes in fourth among adults 18-49 '[CBS's] David Poltrack is the David Koresh of network researchers. CBS bought his story for three [...]

Pundits are predicting that American Broadcasting Cos. (ABC) will dominate the 1994 fall season among television networks. It has the highest number of returning hit programs that have the potential of further increasing their ratings this year. Moreover, all the new half-hour shows of the network are supported by an established program. Special programming events, such as the Stephen King miniseries, are also expected to boost the standing of ABC. Finally, ABC is betting on sports events, including the World Series, if it will push through, and the Super Bowl, to help it clinch the highest rating for the season. The top network of the 1993-1994 season, CBS Inc., is predicted to have a weaker position as a result of lost all-star sports programming and younger programming. On the other hand, Fox Broadcasting Co. is forecasted to gain some edge after it won the rights to cover the National Football Conference games.

by Linda Moss Inauguration Sets Web-Streaming Record as TV Ratings Soar President Obama's inauguration last week set new online-viewing records and gave cable networks a ratings boost. The ceremonies and [...]

By Marisa Guthrie As low as she goes, NBC loses more How low can she go? That was the question two weeks ago when CBS Evening News With Katie Couric [...]

NEW YORK -- After Jump-starting 10 p.m. Sunday courtesy of Without a Trace this season (at a dominant 14.7 million viewers and a potent second-place finish among adults 18-49 behind [...]

NEW YORK -- Based on the first week of national data from Nielsen Media Research, ABC and CBS are leading the November 2006 sweeps period, with CBS first in total [...]

Another season, another down-to-the-wire finish. As the 2005-06 season draws to a close, the top three networks in the adults 18 to 49 demographic are duking it out for the [...]

Byline: Christopher Lisotta CBS held on to its slim lead in the November sweeps through Monday, Nov. 21, in the adults 18 to 49 demographic while dominating its competitors in [...]

Byline: Christopher Lisotta CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler might want to send gift baskets to Keith Urban and Lee Ann Womack. Despite delivering its lowest adults 18 to 49 rating [...]

Byline: Christopher Lisotta ABC is poised to return to its 1999 glory this November sweeps-and without having to resort to stunts. In the first week of sweeps ABC led the [...]

Twentieth Television's limited rollout of its debuting first-run syndicated news strip 'Geraldo at Large'' declined between its first and fourth days on the air but was even with the October [...]

Byline: MICHELE GREPPI Network news stalwart 'NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams'' remained the most watched of the broadcast networks' flagship newscasts in the third quarter, drawing an average of [...]

Byline: Tom Shales 'It's not TV. It's HBO.' Oh get off it, it is too TV. The slogan is objectionable on various levels-what's wrong with being 'TV' in the first [...]

Byline: Leslie Ryan Viacom-owned CBS and UPN were the only broadcast networks to show growth in adults 18 to 49 and total viewers in the first week of sweeps compared [...]

New York-Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouses, the nation's 14th-largest retailer, has re-upped for a third straight year as the category-exclusive sponsor for ``Trading Spaces,'' TLC's room-redesign basic-cable ratings hit. The one-year [...]

The WB and CBS had a lot to crow about last week with both showing robust young demo growth and overall audience delivery. The four other broadcast networks were down [...]

CBS's almost single-minded dedication to developing and launching new 10 p.m.-to-11 p.m. (ET) dramas on four nights of its schedule this season appeared to pay off with initial growth for [...]

NBC's prime-time viewership has the highest average median household income in virtually every adult demographic and is the only network to have a higher median income than the total U.S. [...]

Facing competition from NBC's Winter Olympics and Fox's Super Bowl XXXVI broadcast, the February 2002 sweeps resembled a war of attrition for the other broadcast networks-except UPN. In particular, ABC [...]

Viewers didn't tune in to check out the first midseason entry this season, NBC's Hank Azaria-starring comedy 'Imagine That.' The show premiered in the Tuesday 8 p.m. slot with an [...]

NEW YORK--NBC won the weekly news ratings race by 240,000 viewers over second-place ABC last week and also led in all key demographic categories. The peacock's lead has held steady: [...]

A strong finish Sunday with me telefilm 'A Town Without Christmas' kept CBS' winning streak in average total viewers alive, extending it to six consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, big numbers for [...]

NBC's 'ER' handily won its Thursday showdown with CBS' 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,' though 'CSI' gave CBS its best showing with a drama in the time slot since 'ER's' first [...]

The experimental timeslot switch of ABC's 'Alias,' starring Jennifer Garner, and 'The Practice' in Los Angeles and San Diego on Sunday delivered mixed results as the rookie CIA drama received [...]

David Letterman is feeling young, hip, and rejuvenated again-much like once-terror-wary New York. Coming out of the November sweeps, CBS's ``Late Show With David Letterman'' has tightened the race in [...]

NBC's apparent threadbare win over Fox in the key adults 18 to 49 demographic-still contested late last week by Fox-could make the November 2001 sweeps as hotly debated as the [...]

NEW YORK -- The back-and-forth news ratings war swung in NBC's direction last week, an atypical one because of the Thanksgiving holiday. Still, NBC won convincingly among viewers -- 11.53 [...]

Fox was the primetime master Sunday as its world TV premiere airing of 'Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace' blew away the competition on the final Sunday of [...]

NBC has picked up speed heading into the homestretch of the November sweep, which ends Wednesday. With preliminary numbers for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday factored in, NBC won Tuesday-Friday [...]

ABC and CBS split the Monday night win on the strength of 'Monday Night Football' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' 'Raymond' was again the most-watched show of the night with 21.8 [...]

Supermodels on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' and the cheesecake parade of 'The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show' drove ABC to its best Thursday numbers on the season to date. [...]

While Fox and CBS have the most to crow about after the first week of November sweeps, they might not want to start dreaming of all those ad dollars just [...]

As NBC and CBS duked it out on the second Thursday of the November sweep, 'Friends' and 'Survivor: Africa' seemed to be settling into a peaceful coexistence during the 8-9 [...]

CBS' broadcast of the Country Music Assn. Awards boosted the network to its first Wednesday win in total viewers for the season. In a close race, NBC (6.1 rating/16 share [...]