Early estimates from Nielsen havelast nights American Music Awardson ABC drawing 14.2 million viewers over three hours, an increase of 2.0 million viewers over last year and the award shows highest viewership since 2002.
But even with those kind of numbers (andcontroversial performances from the likes ofAmerican Idolalum Adam Lambert), the AMAs did not prevail with an overall win for the evening: The champ, in terms of ratings at least, was CBS stalwart newsmagazine60 Minutes, which attracted 18.4 million viewers in the 7 p.m hour.
And, in fact, the AMAs didnt even come in secondno, usual Sunday-night ratings championSunday Night Football, which saw the Philadelphia Eages beat the Chicago Bears, nabbed a just-above-the-AMAs 14.6 million viewers to take second place.
As for the overall battle between the networks, NBC was tops there, drawing an average of 12.9 million viewers, while CBS was next with 12.7 million, followed by ABC with 12.1 million.
Source: Nielsen
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