NEW YORK ā In an otherwise quiet week for television, President Joe Biden was the biggest star.
An estimated 38.2 million people watched him deliver his first State of the Union speech last week, spread across several networks that carried it. Fox News Channel, where 7.2 million people watched, had the biggest single audience, the Nielsen company said.
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Otherwise, no prime-time program exceeded 8 million live viewers. On a typical night, ABC's āWorld News Tonightā with David Muir had a bigger audience than anything else on TV last week.
Among individual prime-time shows, ā60 Minutesā finished on top for the second week in a row, Nielsen said.
CBS won the week in prime time with an average of 4.6 million viewers. ABC had 3.9 million, NBC had 3.2 million, Fox had 1.9 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 930,000.
Fox News Channel led the cable networks in prime time with an average of 3.51 million viewers. CNN had 1.81 million, MSNBC had 1.64 million, ESPN had 1.29 million and HGTV had 1.1 million.
ABC's āWorld News Tonightā won the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.8 million viewers, NBC's āNightly Newsā had 7.3 million and the āCBS Evening Newsā had 5.1 million.
For the week of Feb. 28-March 6, the 20 most-watched programs in prime time, their networks and viewerships:
1. ā60 Minutes,ā CBS, 7.99 million.
2. āState of the Union,ā Fox News, 7.21 million.
3. āThe Equalizer,ā CBS, 7.13 million.
4. āNCIS,ā CBS, 7.12 million.
5. āChicago Med,ā NBC, 7.05 million.
6. āChicago Fire,ā NBC, 6.89 million.
7. āState of the Union Preview,ā Fox News, 6.62 million.
8. āAmerican Idol,ā ABC, 6.57 million.
9. āState of the Union Analysis" (10:10-10:32 p.m. Eastern), Fox News, 6.55 million.
10. āYoung Sheldon,ā CBS, 6.48 million.
11. āState of the Union,ā ABC, 6.3 million.
12. āState of the Union: Republican Response,ā Fox News, 5.98 million.
13. āAmerica's Funniest Home Videos,ā ABC, 5.91 million.
14. āBlue Bloods,ā CBS, 5.9 million.
15. āChicago PD,ā NBC, 5.81 million.
16. āThe Neighborhood,ā CBS, 5.7 million.
17. āGhosts,ā CBS, 5.52 million.
18. āBob Hearts Abishola,ā CBS, 5.5 million.
19. āNCIS: Los Angeles,ā CBS, 5.45 million.
20. āState of the Union Analysisā (10:46-11 p.m. Eastern), Fox News, 5.44 million.