VIEWERS FLEE NETWORKS’ RERUNS

All of the major broadcast networks aired a full schedule of reruns Monday night — and their ratings reflected that fact. (ESPN, of course, aired its high-rated Monday Night Football, but figures for the cable telecast were not immediately available. The game, however, was likely to attract almost as many viewers as the Big Four […]

CBS ON TOP DESPITE RERUNS

Despite airing an entire night of repeats, CBS remained the No. 1-rated TV network Monday night among both total viewers and adults 18-49. The network came in second only during the first hour of primetime at 8:00 p.m., when How I Met Your Mother with 5.23 million viewers and Rules of Engagement with 5.74 million […]