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Boston's Top shows: Baseball and Obama

Posted by Matthew Gilbert June 11, 2009 10:13 AM

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Baseball continues to swing the top most watched shows in Boston (week of June 1-7) The most watched comedy was CBS's Two and A Half Men (#5 with 306,000 total viewers.) WHDH is gaining viewers again at 10 p.m. with Law and Order: SVU (#14) and the original show (#24 with 162,000 total viewers.) Brian Williams' interview with the President in the White House gave WHDH a nice boost: Part II of the interview ranked at #14 with 191,000 viewers and Part I came in #29 with 154,000. WCVB's most watched show this week was NBA's final game 2 (Sunday) at #20 with 173,000 viewers. Fox25's News at 10 p.m. tied itself for #18 with 179,000 viewers (for both Monday and Wednesday newscasts). TLC's Jon & Kate Plus 8 continues to draw viewers in Boston, ranking twice at #29 with 155,000 and 154,000 viewers.
Here's the rest of the most watched shows in the Hub for last week:


1. NESN: Major League Baseball (Wed.) 398,000 total viewers
2. NESN: Mjr. League Baseball (Fri) 390,000
3. NESN: Mjr. League Baseball (Sat.) 364,000
4. NESN: Mjr. League Baseball (Tue.) 352,000
5. WBZ:CBS Two and a Half Men 306,000
6. WBZ:CBS 60 Minutes 262,000
7. WBZ:CBS The Mentalist 238,000
8. WBZ: CBS Tony Awards 221,000
9. WBZ:CBS Rules of Engagement 205,000
9. WBZ:CBS Big Bang Theory 205,000
9. WBZ:CBS NCIS 205,000
9. WBZ:CBS The Mentalist 200,000
13. WBZ:Criminal Minds 198,000
14. WHDH:NBC Law and Order: SVU 193,000
14. WHDH:NBC News, Obama interview 191,000
16. WBZ:CBS CSI 184,000
16. WBZ:CBS How I Met Your Mother 183,000
18. WFXT: Fox News at 10 p.m. 179,000
18. WFXT: Fox News at 10 p.m. 177,000

source: Nielsen Media Research

compiled by Johnny Diaz, Globe staff writer
jodiaz@globe.com

1 comments so far...
  1. Oh, excuse me. Just browsing around, looking for the story on Letterman's despicable comments about the AK governor and her daughter.

    Posted by RRAPPLE June 11, 09 12:48 PM
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