FOX’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game and Pre-Game broadcasts claimed the number one- and number three spots, respectively, in the ranking of primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Tuesday, July 15, 2008. 
The game broadcast attracted 14,540,000 viewers — the largest audience since 2002.  Last year, 12.5 million viewers tuned in to watch the game.
NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” ranked second for the night, while ABC’s new reality series, “Wipeout,” took fourth place in the rankings.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
FOX MLB ALL-STAR GAME(S)-07/15/2008
FOX
14,540,000

2
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
NBC
12,793,000

3
FOX MLB ALL-STAR PRE(S)-07/15/2008
FOX
10,371,000

4
WIPEOUT
ABC
8,652,000

5
CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD
NBC
7,823,000

6
NCIS
CBS
7,762,000

7
PRIMETIME: FAMILY SECRETS
ABC
6,967,000

8
BIG BROTHER 10-TUE
CBS
6,104,000

9
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Tuesday night’s All-Star baseball game, hosted in New York’s soon-to-be-retired Yankee Stadium, marks the end of an era.
But will that be enough to lure TV viewers?
Since 2001, Major League Baseball All-Star Game telecasts have drawn U.S. audiences ranging from 12 to 16 million viewers.  Last year’s telecast drew 12.5 million viewers — down from 2006, when 14.4 million fans tuned in.
The 2001 game claimed the largest audiences in recent memory with just over 16 million viewers, but that audience was less than half the size of those tuning in during the game’s …