CBS, NBC claim Thursday victories
By Steve McClellan -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/24/2002 12:45:00 PM
CBS won households, total viewers and adults 25-through-54 Thursday night (the first night of the rerun season) with a two-hour block of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation repeats and The Agency.
NBC won the demo races -- adults 18-through-49 and 18-through-34 -- with a rerun slate including Friends, Frasier, Will& Grace and Just Shoot Me.
FOX aired the theatrical Blade, and managed to finish third (ahead of ABC) with adults 18-through-34, 18-through-49 and 25-through-54 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
ABC was fourth across the key categories from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. with its Whose Line is it Anyway and WhoWants to be a Millionaire lineup.
At 10 p.m. however, viewers flocked to the one original show on the big four at that hour -- Prime Time Thursday, which was first in households, total viewers, adults 50-plus and second in the other key adult demographics.
The Nielsen Media Research fast affiliate household numbers for the night: CBS, 8.7/15; NBC, 6.6/12; ABC, 5.1/9; FOX, 4.4/8.
Adults 18-through-49: NBC, 4.3/13; CBS, 4/13; FOX, 2.9/9; ABC, 2.3/7.
Total viewers: CBS, 12.7 million; NBC, 9.2 million; ABC, 7.3 million; FOX, 6.7 million.
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