The season premiere of ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” was the top-ranked primetime telecast on broadcast TV for Monday, September 22, 2008, drawing an average of just over 21.3 million viewers.
Three of CBS’s Monday night premieres, “CSI: Miami,” “Two and a Half Men,” and “Worst Week,” claimed the next three slots in the rankings, with average audiences of approximately 17.2 million, 14.9 million, and 10.9 million viewers, respectively.
The season premiere of NBC’s “Heroes” rounded out the top five, with just over 10 million average viewers.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
DANCING WITH THE STARS
ABC
21,338,000

2
CSI: …

Univision’s “Al Diablo Con Guapos” was the top-ranked primetime telecast on broadcast TV for Friday, September 19, 2008, drawing an average of almost 6.8 million viewers.
CBS’s “Numbers” claimed second place, with an average audience of almost 6.4 million, and FOX’s “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?” rounded out the top three, drawing an average of almost 6.1 million viewers.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS FRI
UNI
6,780,000

2
NUMB3RS
CBS
6,352,000

3
SMARTER THAN 5TH GRADER
FOX
6,064,000

4
NUMB3RS 9PM
CBS
6,050,000

5
20/20-FRI
ABC
5,754,000

6
AMER FUNN HOME VIDEOS-FRI
ABC
5,395,000

7
GHOST WHISPERER
CBS
5,306,000

8
DATELINE FRI
NBC
5,298,000

9
DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS
FOX
5,263,000

10
FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN
CW
4,083,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (September 19, 2008)

Overall, CBS won the night with …

CBS’s “CSI” and “Flashpoint” were the number one- and number three-ranked primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Thursday, September 18, 2008.
NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” was sandwiched between the two, in second place.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
CSI
CBS
10,190,000

2
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT 9/18(S)-09/18/2008
NBC
10,032,000

3
FLASHPOINT
CBS
9,673,000

4
CSI – 8PM SPECIAL(S)-09/18/2008
CBS
7,958,000

5
KITCHEN NIGHTMARES
FOX
6,154,000

6
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS THU
UNI
6,104,000

7
GREY’S ANATOMY-THU 9PM
ABC
5,924,000

8
HOLE IN WALL THU-8:30P
FOX
5,331,000

9
MY NAME IS EARL
NBC
5,048,000

10
OFFICE
NBC
4,477,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (September 18, 2008 )

Overall, CBS won the night with an average audience of almost 9.3 million viewers, while FOX took second place with approximately 5.4 million average viewers.  ABC and NBC claimed third and fourth …

NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” was the top-ranked primetime telecast on broadcast TV for Wednesday, September 17, 2008, drawing an average of just over 12.2 million viewers.
FOX’s “Bones” claimed second place, with an average audience of just over 9.8 million, and CBS’s “Criminal Minds” rounded out the top three, drawing an average of almost 8.7 million viewers.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT-WED
NBC
12,235,000

2
BONES
FOX
9,844,000

3
CRIMINAL MINDS
CBS
8,722,000

4
CSI: NY
CBS
8,101,000

5
LAW AND ORDR:CRIM INT9/17(S)-09/17/2008
NBC
7,025,000

6
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS WED
UNI
5,875,000

7
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE WED
UNI
5,097,000

8
TIL DEATH
FOX
4,891,000

9
OLD CHRISTINE 8:30PM SP(S)-09/17/2008
CBS
4,591,000

10
OLD CHRISTINE – 8PM SP(S)-09/17/2008
CBS
4,384,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (September 17, 2008)

Overall, NBC won the night …

CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” and “CSI: Miami” were the number one- and number three-ranked primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Monday, September 15, 2008.
NBC’s “Deal Or No Deal” was sandwiched between the two, in second place.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
TWO AND A HALF MEN
CBS
9,975,000

2
DEAL OR NO DEAL-MON
NBC
8,874,000

3
CSI: MIAMI
CBS
7,714,000

4
OLD CHRISTINE
CBS
7,416,000

5
BIG BANG THEORY, THE
CBS
5,942,000

6
PRISON BREAK
FOX
5,786,000

7
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS MON
UNI
5,654,000

8
TERMINATOR: SRH CNR CHRON
FOX
5,564,000

9
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
CBS
5,402,000

10
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE MON
UNI
5,394,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (September 15, 2008)

Overall, CBS won the night with an average audience of almost 7.4 million viewers, while NBC took second …

ABC’s “20/20” claimed the top spot in Nielsen’s ranking of primetime broadcast TV programs for Friday, September 12.
FOX’s “Smarter Than A Fifth Grader” and CBS’s “Numbers” rounded out the top three.
Back-to-back special episodes of CBS’s “Ghost Whisperer” also made the top 10.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
20/20-FRI
ABC
8,068,000

2
SMARTER THAN 5TH GRADER
FOX
7,114,000

3
NUMB3RS
CBS
6,167,000

4
GHOST WHISPERER 9PM-SP(S)-09/12/2008
CBS
6,011,000

5
DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS
FOX
5,665,000

6
DATELINE FRI
NBC
5,441,000

7
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS FRI
UNI
5,185,000

8
GHOST WHISPERER
CBS
5,048,000

9
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE FRI
UNI
4,717,000

10
FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN
CW
4,258,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (September 12, 2008)

Overall, FOX won the night with an average audience of almost 6.4 million viewers, while CBS took second place with just over …

Product placements on primetime broadcast and cable TV programs fell by almost 15% on primetime programming during the first half of 2008, as compared with the same time period last year, Nielsen reported Monday.
Broadcast television placements grew by almost 12% between January and June of 2008, while placements on cable television declined by 20%.
Changes in program line-ups accounted for the growth of broadcast placements — and the decrease in cable placements. 

 NBC’s “Deal Or No Deal” claimed the top spot in Nielsen’s ranking of primetime broadcast TV programs for Monday, September 8.
CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” and “CSI: Miami” rounded out the top three.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
DEAL OR NO DEAL-MON
NBC
9,651,000

2
TWO AND A HALF MEN
CBS
9,177,000

3
CSI: MIAMI
CBS
7,257,000

4
OLD CHRISTINE
CBS
7,217,000

5
AMERICA’S TOUGHEST JOBS
NBC
6,487,000

6
PRISON BREAK
FOX
6,361,000

7
TERMINATOR: SRH CNR CHRON
FOX
6,328,000

8
DATELINE NBC-MON
NBC
6,286,000

9
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS MON
UNI
5,651,000

10
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
CBS
5,602,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (September 8, 2008)

Overall, NBC won the night with an average audience of almost 7.5 million viewers, while CBS took second place with almost 7 million average viewers.  FOX …

Back-to-back episodes of FOX’s “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader” were the number one- and number three-ranked primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Friday, September 5, 2008.
ABC’s “20/20” was sandwiched between the two, in second place.
Three Univision telecasts, “Fuego en la Sangre” (#4), “Al Diablo Con Guapos” (#5), and “Rosa de Guadalupe” (#8), also made the top ten.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
SMARTER THAN 5TH 9/5-9P(S)-09/05/2008
FOX
8,566,000

2
20/20-FRI
ABC
6,751,000

3
SMARTER THAN 5TH GRADER
FOX
6,637,000

4
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE FRI
UNI
5,063,000

5
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS FRI
UNI
4,958,000

6
AMER FUNN HM VIDEOS-9/5(S)-09/05/2008
ABC
4,349,000

7
FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN
CW
4,234,000

8
ROSA DE GUADALUPE FRI
UNI
3,634,000

9
SWINGTOWN
CBS
3,593,000

10
DATELINE FRI
NBC
3,498,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (September 5, 2008)

Overall, FOX …

For the second consecutive night, NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” claimed the top spot in Nielsen’s ranking of primetime broadcast TV programs.
The telecast drew an average audience of more than 10.2 million viewers, while FOX’s “Bones” and ABC’s coverage of the third night of the Republican National Convention were ranked second and third, respectively, with more than 9.7 million and 5.8 million average viewers each.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT-WED
NBC
10,249,000

2
BONES
FOX
9,739,000

3
VOTE2008:REP NAT CONV-WED(S)-09/03/2008
ABC
5,899,000

4
CRIMINAL MINDS
CBS
5,755,000

5
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE WED
UNI
5,572,000

6
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS WED
UNI
5,518,000

7
GREATEST AMERICAN DOG
CBS
4,955,000

8
AMERICA’S TOP MODEL-5
CW
3,507,000

9
DON FRANCISCO PRESENTA WE
UNI
3,317,000

10
WIFE SWAP
ABC
3,293,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (September …