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February Nielsens: KVUE top dog in local news, ‘Family Guy’ big in late-night
The Nielsen ratings for February are in, and the big news isn’t that KVUE continues to hog the lead in local news ratings. Or that KXAN remains in second place with KEYE giving it a run for its money.
No, the big news in February is the late-night competition. Was “Nightline” No. 1 in our highly educated TV market? No, that was No. 2, followed in order by “The Late Show with David Letterman” on CBS and then “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” No, dear readers, the top-rated late-night show in Austin was (drum roll) “Family Guy” reruns on KTBC.
Now, back to the news ratings. At 5 p.m., Austin’s Univision station KAKW finished behind our four English-language network affiliates but ahead of KNVA’s reruns of “Everybody Loves Raymond.” That’s a move up for Univision.
Austin continues to favor “ABC’s World News” among the network newscasts, with “NBC Nightly News” in second place and the “CBS Evening News” last.
At 6 p.m., KVUE remains top-rated, but KXAN is a very close second. At 10 p.m., again with KVUE on top, KXAN and KEYE are neck-and-neck.
KTBC’s late Fox 7 News, which runs for an hour at 9 p.m. (instead of up against the other guys at 10 p.m.), had extremely strong ratings this time around — maybe because the writers strike has caused prime-time ratings to sag or maybe also because we’re in the heat of a blockbuster run of “American Idol.” Or maybe because Central Texans just like Fox 7 News.
FEBRUARY NIELSEN RATINGS
5 p.m. local news
KVUE - 7.1
KXAN - 3.6
KEYE - 3.0
KTBC - 2.3
KAKW - 1.9/4
KNVA (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) - 1.2
5:30 p.m. network news
ABC - 7.3
NBC - 4.8
CBS - 3.4
Univision - 2.2
KNVA (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) - 1.3
6:00 p.m. local news
KVUE - 6.5
KXAN - 5.3
KEYE - 3.9
KTBC (“TMZ”) - 2.6
KNVA (“Friends”) - 1.7
10 p.m. local news
KVUE - 6.1
KXAN - 5.3
KEYE - 5.1
KTBC (“The Simpsons”) - 4.4
KAKW - 2.7
[KTBC (9-10 p.m.) - 6.2]
(A rating is 1 percent of the 602,340 TV households in the Austin viewing area.)
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