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THE NIELSENS
Emmy Awards hit ratings low and high
ASSOCIATED PRESS
16-Sep-1999 Thursday
Maybe the interpretive-dance medley by hosts Jenna Elfman and David Hyde
Pierce was to blame: Fox's Sunday telecast was the lowest-rated Emmy Awards
show since 1990.
Still, the telecast's estimated 17.4 million viewers was easily the week's
most-watched program, a lull before the upcoming storm of season premieres.
It was the first time a Fox entertainment program has ranked No. 1 during
the week in all of Nielsen Media Research's measurements.
But the audience was still 1.9 million people smaller than the one watching
NBC's Emmy telecast last year.
CBS, led last week by its twin "60 Minutes" broadcasts, narrowly won the
week with a 6.7 rating and 12 share. Fox was second with a 6.6 rating and
11 share, and was easily the most popular network among the
advertiser-prized 18-49 audience.
NBC was third (6.3 rating and 11 share), followed by ABC (5.7 and 10), the
WB and UPN (which tied at 2.2 and 4) and Pax TV (0.9 and 2).
Fox also got a jolt of negative attention from Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a
Connecticut Democrat, and former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett.
The two gave Fox its "Silver Sewer Award" for its "tireless, tasteless and
ongoing efforts to drag down network programming standards."
The two politicians criticized the new Fox series "Get Real," for showing a
mother finding her teen-age son in bed with his girlfriend. The show
premiered last week to lackluster ratings, finishing No. 50 for the week.
Fox issued a statement saying its programs had been rated appropriately
under the industry's voluntary standards to warn viewers of content. The
network said it respected viewers' freedom to choose their own
entertainment.
ABC's "World News Tonight" and the "NBC Nightly News" (7.0 rating and
16
share) tied for first in the evening news ratings race, trailed by "CBS
Evening News" (6.0 and 13).
A rating point represents 1,008,000 households, or 1 percent of the
nation's estimated 100.8 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of
in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
Here are the prime-time ratings as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for
Sept. 6-12:
1. "51st Annual Emmy Awards," Fox.
2. "Dateline NBC" (Tuesday).
3. "60 Minutes II," CBS.
4. "60 Minutes," CBS.
5. "ER," NBC.
5. "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS.
5. "Frasier," NBC.
8. "Friends," NBC.
9. "20/20" (Friday), ABC.
9. "JAG," CBS.
11. "20/20" (Wednesday), ABC.
11. "Just Shoot Me," NBC.
13. "Dateline NBC" (Friday).
13. "Law & Order," NBC.
16. "Emmy Awards Pre-Show, Part II," Fox.
17. "Dateline NBC" (Wednesday).
18. "The Drew Carey Show," ABC.
19. "20/20" (Monday), ABC.
20. "60 Minutes II," CBS.
20. "Walker, Texas Ranger," CBS.
20. "Will & Grace," NBC.
23. "CBS Wednesday Movie: Philadelphia."
23. "Dateline NBC" (Monday).
23. "Dharma & Greg," ABC.
23. "Diagnosis Murder," CBS.
23. "Jesse," NBC.
28. "Diagnosis Murder," CBS.
28. "The King of Queens," CBS.
30. "ABC Monday Night Movie: ATF."
31. "48 Hours," CBS.
31. "Beverly Hills, 90210," Fox.
33. "Home Improvement," ABC.
33. "Law & Order," NBC.
35. "U.S. Open Tennis," CBS.
35. "Will & Grace," NBC.
37. "CBS Sunday Movie: Logan's War."
37. "Geraldo Rivera Reports," NBC.
37. "Spin City," ABC.
37. "World's Most Amazing Videos," NBC.
41. "Just Shoot Me," NBC.
41. "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place," ABC.
43. "3rd Rock From the Sun," NBC.
43. "ABC College Football Special: UCLA at Ohio State; Georgia Tech at
Florida State."
45. "48 Hours," CBS.
45. "NBC Sunday Night Movie: Braveheart."
47. "Candid Camera," CBS.
47. "Martial Law," CBS.
47. "The Practice," ABC.
50. "Ally McBeal," Fox.
50. "Fox Movie Special: The Craft."
50. "Get Real," Fox.
50. "Providence," NBC.
54. "AMW: America Fights Back," Fox.
54. "Cosby," CBS.
54. "Kids Say the Darndest Things," CBS.
54. "Spin City," ABC.
54. "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place," ABC.
59. "Nash Bridges," CBS.
60. "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," ABC.
61. "Candid Camera," CBS.
61. "The Hughleys," ABC.
63. "Barbara Walters," ABC.
63. "COPS 2: Palm Beach," Fox.
63. "it's like, you know," ABC.
63. "Wonderful World of Disney: Sabrina Goes to Rome," ABC.
67. "Norm," ABC.
68. "That '70s Show," Fox.
69. "Early Edition," CBS.
70. "Thanks," CBS.
71. "Latin Beat," ABC.
71. "World's Wildest Police Videos," Fox.
73. "Kids Say the Darndest Things," CBS.
73. "Nightline in Primetime: Brave New World," ABC.
75. "Cheating Death: Catastrophes," Fox.
75. "COPS: Indianapolis," Fox.
77. "Emmy Awards Pre-Show, Part I," Fox.
77. "That '70s Show," Fox.
79. "More Bloopers," ABC.
80. "Fox Movie Special: Money Train," Fox.
80. "Veronica's Closet," NBC.
82. "Disney's One Saturday Morning," ABC.
83. "The Profiler," NBC.
83. "Whose Line Is It Anyway?," ABC.
85. "WWF Smackdown!," UPN.
86. "Suddenly Susan," NBC.
86. "Whose Line Is It Anyway?," ABC.
88. "National Geographic: Search for the Submarine," NBC.
89. "The Steve Harvey Show," WB.
90. "7th Heaven," WB.
90. "Grown Ups," UPN.
92. "Charmed," WB.
93. "Unhappily Ever After," WB.
94. "For Your Love," WB.
94. "Malcolm & Eddie," UPN.
94. "The Parkers," UPN.
94. "The Smart Guy," WB.
94. "The Steve Harvey Show," WB.
99. "The Jamie Foxx Show," WB.
99. "Moesha," UPN.
99. "Sister, Sister," WB.
99. "Star Trek: Voyager," UPN.
103. "7 Days," UPN.
103. "Dawson's Creek," WB.
105. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," WB.
106. "7th Heaven Beginnings," WB.
107. "Diagnosis Murder," Pax.
108. "The Wayans Brothers," WB.
109. "Movie Stars," WB.
110. "Felicity," WB.
111. "Diagnosis Murder," Pax.
111. "Touched by an Angel," Pax.
113. "Diagnosis Murder," Pax.
113. "Diagnosis Murder," Pax.
113. "Katie Joplin," WB.
113. "UPN Special Presentation: Escape From Mars."
117. "Dilbert," UPN.
117. "Redhanded," UPN.
117. "Star Trek: Voyager," UPN.
117. "Touched by an Angel," Pax.
121. "Diagnosis Murder," Pax.
121. "Hope Island," Pax.
121. "Touched by an Angel," Pax.
124. "Touched by an Angel," Pax.
124. "Twice in a Lifetime," Pax.
126. "Chicken Soup for the Soul," Pax.
126. "Destination Stardom, Pax.
126. "It's a Miracle," Pax.
126. "Touched by an Angel," Pax.
126. "Twice in a Lifetime," Pax.
131. "It's a Miracle," Pax.
131. "Little Men," Pax.
133. "Chicken Soup for the Soul," Pax.
134. "Flipper: New Adventures," Pax.
134. "Little Men," Pax.
136. "The Pax TV Three-Hanky Movie: The Littlest Victims."
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Nielsen Ratings
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| 3/15/99 | |
| 3/29/99 | |
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| 6/28/99 | |
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| 9-6-99 | |
| 9-13-99 | |
| 201 | 9-20-99 |
| 202 | 9-27-99 |
| 203 | 10-4-99 |
| 204 | 10-11-99 |
| 205 | 10-18-99 |
| 206 | 10/25/99 |
| 207 | 11/1/99 |
| 208 | 11/8/99 |
| 209 | 11/15/99 |
| 210 | 11/22/99 |
| 211 | 11/29/99 |
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201 |
12/6/99 |
| 212 | 12/13/99 |
| 118 | 12/20/99 |
| 119 | 12/27/99 |
| 121 | 1/3/2000 |
| 213 | 1/10/00 |
| 214 | 1/17/00 |
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122 |
1/24/00 |
| 203 | 1/31/00 |
| 215 | 2/7/00 |
| 216 | 2/14/00 |
| 217 | 2/21/00 |
| 218 | 2/28/00 |
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| 3/13/00 | |
| 219 | 3/20/00 |
| 3/27/00 | |
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| 220 | 4/10/00 |
| 221 | 4/17/00 |
| 222 | 4/24/00 |
| 223 | 5/01/00 |
| 224 | 5/08/00 |
