UPN’s Model Struts to High Ratings

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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UPN’s America’s Next Top Model scored the network’s highest ratings ever in its Tuesday 9 p.m. time period among women 18-34 and women 18-49. It also was UPN’s third-highest rated telecast among women 18-34 in the network’s nine-year history.

The show scored the network’s second-best-ever time-period performance among adults 18-34, adults 18-49 and total viewers, giving the network second place overall on the night among persons 12-34, women 18-34, females 12-34 and teens.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.