New TV 'stars' are regular folks

NEW YORK (AP) -- The prime-time "stars" of this summer are regular folks willing to humiliate themselves on national television.

Three new games -- ABC's "Wipeout" and "I Survived a Japanese Game Show" and NBC's "Celebrity Family Feud" all debuted in Nielsen Media Research's top 10 last week. Except for "60 Minutes" and reruns of "CSI: Miami and "Two and a Half Men," everything in Nielsen's top 10 was a game.

Only NBC's "America's Got Talent" topped 10 million viewers last week.

CBS won the week, averaging 6.6 million viewers (4.4 rating, 8 share). NBC had 6.3 million (4.0, 7), Fox 5.7 million (3.5, 6), ABC 5.1 million (3.3, 6), the CW 1.7 million (1.1, 2), My Network TV 960,000 (0.7, 1) and Ion Television 420,000 (0.3, 1)

Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision had 3.3 million (1.7, 3), Telemundo 930,000 (0.6, 1), Telefutura 540,000 (0.3, 1) and Azteca 110,000 (0.1, 0).

NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.6 million viewers (5.2, 11). ABC's "World News" was second with 6.9 million (4.9, 11) and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.6 million viewers (3.8, 8).

A ratings point represents 1,128,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 112.8 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.

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