FOX’s “American Idol Thursday Result Special” claimed the top slot in Nielsen’s ranking of the top primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for March 26, 2009. The show drew just over 23.1 million average viewers Thursday night.
ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy-Thu 9PM” was the second-ranked program with 16.1 million average viewers while CBS’s “NCAA Basketball Championship Thursday” rounded out the top three with 10.4 million average viewers.
| Rank | Program | Network | Viewers (P2+) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AMER IDL THU RSLT SP-3/26(S)-03/26/2009 | FOX | 23,102,000 |
| 2 | GREY’S ANATOMY-THU 9PM | ABC | 16,101,000 |
| 3 | CBS NCAA BSKBL CHMP TH 2(S)-03/26/2009 | CBS | 10,375,000 |
| 4 | E.R. | NBC | 10,355,000 |
| 5 | HELL’S KITCHEN | FOX | 10,129,000 |
| 6 | PRIVATE PRACTICE | ABC | 10,123,000 |
| 7 | OFFICE | NBC | 8,647,000 |
| 8 | 30 ROCK | NBC | 7,169,000 |
| 9 | IN THE MOTHERHOOD | ABC | 6,697,000 |
| 10 | PREMIO LO NUESTRO’09 3/26(S)-03/26/2009 | UNI | 6,602,000 |
| Source: The Nielsen Company (March 26, 2009). | |||
Overall, FOX won the night with an average audience of almost 16.8 million viewers,
while ABC took second place with almost 11.0 million average viewers. CBS and NBC
claimed third and fourth places with roughly 10.4 and 7.9 million average viewers.
UNI and the CW followed in fifth and sixth places with average audiences of roughly
6.6 million and 3.5 million average viewers, respectively.
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