Football lifts ABC on Monday
Morning Ratings Flash -- Rick Kissell
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Early Nielsen estimates for Monday's live football game between the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs are unreliable, but affiliate-based numbers show it earning a 5.2 rating/12 share in adults 18-49 and 12.9 million viewers overall -- putting it on the low end of the franchise's ratings range.
CBS held up well compared to premiere week in the opening hour with "King of Queens" (3.5/10 in adults 18-49, 10.6 million viewers overall) and "How I Met Your Mother" (3.5/9 in 18-49, 10.2 million viewers overall), with both expected to win their timeslots. Net then fell behind football in demos from 9 to 10 with "Two and a Half Men" (4.7/11 in 18-49, 14.4 million viewers overall) and "Out of Practice" (3.7/9 in 18-49, 11.7 million viewers overall).
And at 10, "CSI: Miami" may have been the night's top-rated program (5.5/13 in 18-49, 16.7 million viewers overall), but this was one of its lowest firstrun scores to date. NBC's "Medium" (5.0/12 in 18-49, 12.9 million viewers overall) closed the gap between the crime skeins, rising week-to-week.
Also for NBC, new 8 o'clock drama "Surface" slid some in week two (2.8/8 in 18-49, 8.9 million viewers overall), and 9 o'clock drama "Las Vegas" was down a bit (4.0/9 in 18-49, 12 million viewers overall), finishing in a demo tie with Fox drama "Prison Break" (4/9 in 18-49, 8.4 million viewers overall), which was up week-to-week.
Fox again struck out in the night's opening hour with laffers "Arrested Development" (1.9/5 in 18-49, 3.9 million viewers overall) and "Kitchen Confidential" (1.7/4 in 18-49, 3.7 million viewers overall).
Preliminary 18-49 averages for the night: ABC, 4.8/12; CBS, 4.4/11; NBC, 3.9/10; Fox, 2.9/7; WB, 1.4/4; UPN, 1.4/4.
In total viewers: CBS, 13.4 million; ABC, 12.1 million; NBC, 11.3 million; Fox, 6.1 million; WB, 3.9 million; UPN, 3.4 million.
