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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.2/7 | 1.9/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.3/4 | 1.3/4 | 0.5/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.6/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.7/6 | 1.0/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.95 | 5.53 | 3.70 | 4.43 | 5.53 | 1.17 |
Led by a new hour of America’s Got Talent at 9pm, NBC won the night with adults 18-49 and total viewers, edging out ABC.
At 8pm, ABC’s Wipeout led the hour with a 2.5/8 rating/share with adults 18-49 and 7.56 million viewers. Second was a recap hour of America’s Got Talent (1.8/6, 6.93M) followed by a Bones rerun (1.2/4, 4.5M) and a Ted Kennedy tribute, Ted Kennedy: The Last Brother on CBS (0.9/3, 4.6M). CW ran an America’s Next Top Model repeat (0.5/2, 1.25M).
At 9pm the aforementioned America’s Got Talent led the way (2.9/8, 10.87M), with the premiere of ABC’s Crash Course a distant second (1.9/5, 5.06M), followed by a Criminal Minds repeat (1.3/4, 5.65M) and another Bones rerun (1.3/4, 4.35M) and another repeat hour of America’s Next Top Model (0.5/1, 1.09M).
At 10pm a Law & Order: SVU (1.8/5, 6.05M) episode on NBC led the way followed by a CSI: NY (1.6/5, 6.36M) repeat and ABC’s Ted Kennedy tribute, Remembering Ted Kennedy (1.1/3, 3.97M).
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Not surprised, but here in boston ABC and CBS local news had Ted kennedy live coverage from 8-10
NBC had coverage from 10-11
please excuses me if some of this information could be wrong
Note to Chief. We may well employ such a format ourselves, but it can wait until after labor day….Sorry (and I appreciate the effort, but…)
Joe R, I’m sure the results are a bit more preliminary than normal..
not in ny
The photo you guys use for AGT always cracks me up. The Hoff looks like Frankenstein’s monster.
Sharon looks like she’s shooting someone. Wipeout’s lead-in wasn’t good enough apparently for Crash Course. A lot of people left.
Who wants to watch an old drunk sexual assaulter and murderer’s funeral just because he inherited enough money to buy a Senate seat for 47 years. I’d rather watch Whoopie Goldberg drooling over Baba Wawa.
GAWD from 8-10, dang, what did they find to talk about for that long?
Where’s the coverage of Mary Jo Kopechne?
Personally, I would rather watch pictures of natural disasters than anything about the drunk fatboy murderer from Massachusetts. Anyone wanting RATINGS would do an total review of his history of rutting about….and include the famous Chris Dodd/Teddy Kennedy “waitress sandwich” episode of 1985 when these two worthless drunks assaulted a waitress while their “dates” were in the bathroom.
Camelot was a fictional fantasy. Ted Kennedy is a ledgend in his own mind. RIP playboy. May your body become fertilizer like your mind was over your lifetime.
HOW ABOUT A NEW SHOW CALLED “Congress has Talent”…and then try to find any amongst the senators and reps. Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter could be the judges.
What a handy dandy little devise, that remote. Obama, Ted Kennedy, 26 days of Michael Jackson, and the like .. “click!” and SEE YA! I have no idea what planet media and congress are on but it sure as heck aint earth’s terra firma. For most people, TK’s demise ranges from “So what?” to “Hurray and Hallelujah!”
All the good air time they will lose on him. Yawn and btw, hurray and hallelujah. Let us enjoy this little respite between birth right royalty Mass. Kennedy’s, okay? No doubt, Mass. forgot somehow that their forefathers overthrew the monarch and his aristcracy.
I am sorry he died as he did, but I do not really care to watch people act like he was really great. He has been around long enough. Dying in the only job you ever had is admirable unless it takes money from people to give to other people in the case of FAIRNESS. If you do not work you do not eat, and even more so with your personal health, whether you are fat, or lazy, or do not work at all, soory but ask GOD for your sustenance not me through someone in the govenment making me pay for your keep.
no surprise, he been brain dead for over 60 years
Apparently it’s news to the media that no one outside of the northeast gives a crap about Tedd Kennedy. You can try all you want. You can’t polish a turd.
I was soooooo bored I started watching reruns of Andy Griffith…get a life networks!
Who wants to watch the NE media blubber about Kennedy?
They said he died with only a 51% approval rating. That would include those who “somewhat approve.”
A lot of those folks also “highly disapprove” of the Democrats’ health care “reform” that they now want everyone to vote for out of pity for Teddy.
Using Teddy as a last ditch effort to pass a bad deal for America is going to drive his sorry approval ratings into the ground with him.
Have the Democrats NO SHAME at all?
Many of us lived through the Kennedy tragedies, but Chappaquiddick was not one of them. That was the proof that Justice has a very blind spot when it comes to the chosen few….the elite. Ted Kennedy did a lot of things we lesser mortals would have spent time in the slammer for, but he sailed through life as if he had carte blanche to use and abuse. In re-reading the events that happened which resulted in Mary Jo Kopechne’s life, I am struck at how singularly uninterested, and unemotional Ted was in giving his statement a few days later, and how calculating and bizarre his behavior was the night. Couple that with Gargan and Markham, both lawyers, and their omissions in not trying to get her help, it is sickening. While he wasn’t OJ, the lack of justice for Mary Jo was as vile as that for Ron Goldman and OJ’s wife. If people are thinking Kennedy will rescue the very flawed Health Care plan, written by questionable people, they might just re-read the saga of Chappaquiddick .
we are NOT interested in Ed Kenendy.
how about some coverage on Mary Jo?
or maybe the 54 MILLION abortions that he supported.
A show worshipping the the socialist, drunken, murdering criminal Ted Kennedy. Freakin disgusts me. ABC is so out of touch.