Baseball season’s over, so there will be no more big weekly ratings wins for Fox until American Idol returns. With a nice rebound for its Sunday night lineup, ABC topped the adults 18-49 ratings (ahead of Fox) and adults 25-54 ratings (ahead of CBS) for the week ending November 15, 2009. Fox continued its weekly wins in the adults 18-34 ratings (ahead of ABC) as it has for most of the season, and CBS, as is typical, was tops in average viewership (edging ABC).

Note that the chart includes RATINGS not VIEWERSHIP as was typical in our weekly network ratings posts prior to July, 2009.

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The 2009 World Series finished with the best ratings since 2004, and the final games boosted Fox to another weekly ratings win in all the main the adult demo groups for the seventh week of the primetime season ending November 8, 2009. They had particularly large margins of victory in adults 18-34 and 18-49, but just got by CBS in adults 25-54.

With a big Cowboys/Eagles Sunday Night Football game, NBC’s ratings were elevated from last week’s embarrassment and they edged ABC for third place in the important adults 18-49 demo. Even with the World Series, CBS was able to sneak past Fox for top average viewership.

Note that the chart includes RATINGS not VIEWERSHIP as was typical in our weekly network ratings posts prior to July, 2009.

You can see past week’s broadcast network primetime weekly TV ratings results here.

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