By Steve McClellan -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/14/2002 12:04:00 PM
Fox won all of the key demos and total viewers Tuesday night with its lineup of That 70s Show, The Simpsons and American Idol. Fox
and NBC tied for first in the households race, according to the Nielsen Media
Research fast nationals.
From 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST, Fox was first among adults 18 through 34 and 18 through
49 with 70s Show and The Simpsons, while ABC took adults 25 through
54 with back-to-back According to Jim episodes.
From 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., Idol won just about everything: households, total
viewers, the key adult demos, kids and teens. NBC was second in the time
period in the adult demos with back-to-back Frasier episodes, and ABC was
a close third in the demos with its premiere of USA Network's off-beat detective
series, Monk.
At 10 p.m., NBC's Dateline won across the key categories.
For the night, households: Fox and NBC, 5.6 rating/10 share; CBS 5.4/9; ABC
4.3/8.
Adults 18 through 49: Fox 4.7/14, NBC 3.0/9, ABC 2.3/7 and CBS
1.7/5.
MSNBC launches in high definition June 29 following major overhauls to its New York City control room and Washington D.C. studio. View images of the new control room and screenshots of the new HD picture for dayside programming. (Photos courtesy of NBC Universal)
In this week's edition of B&C TechTalk, senior editor Glen Dickson discusses Fox News Channel, which this week became the first U.S. cable news network to go fully widescreen for both HD and SD distribution.
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