FOX’s “So You Think You can Dance” claimed the top slot by a tight margin in Nielsen’s ranking of primetime broadcast TV programs for July 23, 2008.  The show drew an audience of 8.5 million viewers Wednesday night.
CBS’s “Criminal Minds” and “CSI: NY” came in second and third, respectively, with 8.4 million viewers and 7.5 million viewers each.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
SO YOU THINK CN DANCE-WED
FOX
8,599,000

2
CRIMINAL MINDS
CBS
8,437,000

3
CSI: NY
CBS
7,533,000

4
PRIMETIME: CRIME
ABC
6,350,000

5
BIG BROTHER 10-WED
CBS
6,219,000

6
BABY BORROWERS
NBC
4,734,000

7
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS WED
UNI
4,633,000

8
LAW AND ORDER
NBC
4,569,000

9
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE WED
UNI
4,390,000

10
SUPERNANNY
ABC
3,905,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (July 23, 2008)

Overall, FOX (8,599,000 viewers) edged past …

NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” claimed the top slot by an unusually wide margin in Nielsen’s ranking of primetime broadcast TV programs for July 22, 2008.   The show drew an audience of 13.2 million viewers Tuesday night.
ABC’s “Wipeout” and CBS’s “NCIS” came in second and third, respectively, with 9.9 million viewers and 8.5 million viewers each.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
NBC
13,236,000

2
WIPEOUT
ABC
9,985,000

3
NCIS
CBS
8,524,000

4
CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD
NBC
7,276,000

5
PRIMETIME: FAMILY SECRETS
ABC
6,721,000

6
LAW AND ORDER:SVU
NBC
6,601,000

7
BIG BROTHER 10-TUE
CBS
6,073,000

8
WITHOUT A TRACE
CBS
5,695,000

9
I SURVED-JAPANESE GM SHOW
ABC
5,548,000

10
HOUSE
FOX
5,204,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (July 22, 2008)

Overall, NBC won the night — with an average audience of 9,074,000 viewers, while ABC took …

CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” and “CSI Miami” were the number one- and number two-ranked primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Monday, July 14, 2008.
ABC’s back-to-back telecasts of “The Mole” claimed the 8th and 10th spots, while two Univision programs, “Fuego en la Sangre” (#7) and “Cristina” (#9), also made the top ten.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
TWO AND A HALF MEN
CBS
8,390,000

2
CSI: MIAMI
CBS
7,669,000

3
HOUSE-MON 9P
FOX
7,432,000

4
DATELINE NBC-MON
NBC
6,316,000

5
NASHVILLE STAR
NBC
5,935,000

6
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
CBS
5,138,000

7
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE MON
UNI
4,246,000

8
MOLE, THE
ABC
3,599,000

9
CRISTINA MON
UNI
3,045,000

10
MOLE, THE-7/14(S)-07/14/2008
ABC
2,888,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (July 14, 2008)

Overall, FOX edged past CBS to win the night — with …