FOX’s “American Idol-Wednesday” claimed the top slot in Nielsen’s ranking of the top primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for February 25, 2009. The show drew just over 24.5 million average viewers Wednesday evening.
CBS’s “Criminal Minds” and “CSI: NY” rounded out the top three with 13.9 and 12.6 million average viewers respectively.

Rank
Program
Network
Viewers (P2+)

1
AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY
FOX
24,541,000

2
CRIMINAL MINDS
CBS
13,930,000

3
CSI: NY
CBS
12,563,000

4
LOST
ABC
10,050,000

5
BIGGEST LOSER 7 2/25(S)-02/25/2009
NBC
8,613,000

6
LAW AND ORDER
NBC
5,774,000

7
GARY UNMARRIED
CBS
5,706,000

8
OLD CHRISTINE
CBS
5,602,000

9
LOST-WED 8PM
ABC
5,000,000

10
LIFE
NBC
4,893,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (February 25, 2009).

Overall, FOX won the night with an average audience of almost 24.5 million viewers, while CBS took second place with almost 10.7 …