TV Ratings: CBS Is not Any. 1 Network for First 72 Hours of Season

Adam Rose/Warner Bros./CBS 72 hours into the new broadcast season, CBS might be no. 1 network in general audiences and key 18-49 demographic. (CBS also leads inside the 25-54 demographic, where it's typically been out front.) PHOTOS: CBS' Year Tv Shows: 'Person of curiosity,' 'A Gifted Guy' plus much more CBS is calculating 12.6 000 0000 audiences in primetime getting a 3.4 rating inside the 18-49 demo, up three percent year-to-year inside the demo and flat in general audiences. The network got off an excellent lead while using monster Sept. 19 premiere of two and a half Males, which was seen by nearly Thirty Dollars million audiences. With Ashton Kutcher becasue it is new star, the series might be the times of year top comedy among total audiences as well as the 18-49 demo. And NCIS remains undertaking well within the ninth season it's the No. 1 drama in audiences as well as the demo. PHOTOS: The Talk: Memorable Guest Hosts Second place Fox (calculating a 3.one out of the demo) has seen the finest ratings bump up to now this season, up 11 percent due to strong tune-looking for Simon Cowell's The X Factor and new Zooey Deschanel comedy The Completely New Girl. Fox may also be really the only network up among total audiences, calculating 8. million for your first 72 hours of the year. Meanwhile ABC had sunk with a third place tie with NBC with both systems calculating a few.6 rating inside the demo. That marks a four percent decline for ABC, that's second among total audiences with 9.4 million. Together with a seven percent decline for NBC, showing the network's repairing remains greatly an item happening. NBC may also be lower six percent among total audiences calculating 7.5 million. As well as the CW has dropped double-amounts in the 18-49 demo (.8 rating, lower 33 percent) and total audiences (1.8 million, lower twenty five percent). [All amounts be a consequence of most current Nielsen data for Sept. 19-March. 9, 2011.] ABC Simon Cowell NCIS CBS two and a half Males Fox Broadcasting Corporation The X Factor NBC Entertainment