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CBS Prime-Time Ratings Champ Last Week

 Slideshow: CBS Fall Primetime Line-Up

NEW YORK (AP) ― America clearly has a taste for "America's Got Talent," which retained the ratings top spot last week.

The NBC talent competition drew more than 10.8 million viewers, ahead of repeat airings of CBS' "60 Minutes" (10.2 million) and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (9.8 million), according to Nielsen Media Research.

In fourth place, a Tuesday preview of CBS' Drew Carey-hosted game show, "Power of Ten," scored solidly with 9.2 million viewers. (Its official premiere a night later attracted 7.8 million viewers, to rank 17th.)

But ABC had another week to forget. Its highest-rated show — the premiere of newsmagazine "Primetime: Crime" — ranked 23rd.

Overall in prime time for the week, CBS came out on the top, with an average of 7.1 million viewers (4.8 household rating, 9 share). NBC had 5.6 million viewers (3.7 rating, 7 share), while Fox averaged 5.5 million viewers (3.5 rating, 6 share). ABC had 4.4 million (3.0 rating, 5 share), the CW 1.7 million (1.2 rating, 2 share), My Network TV 980,000 (0.7 rating, 1 share) and ION Television 670,000 (0.4 rating, 1 share).

Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with 3 million viewers (1.6 rating, 3 share), Telemundo had 830,000 (0.5 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura 510,000 (0.3 rating, 1 share) and Azteca 130,000 (0.1 rating, 0 share).

In the evening news race, ABC's "World News" averaged 7.8 million viewers (5.4 rating and 12 share), landing in first place for the 15th time in 16 weeks. "NBC Nightly News" had 7.5 million (5.2 rating, 11 share) and "CBS Evening News" 6 million viewers (4.2 rating, 9 share).

A ratings point represents 1,114,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 111.4 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.

For the week of Aug. 6-12, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "America's Got Talent," NBC, 10.84 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.22 million; "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.82 million; "Power of Ten" (Tuesday), CBS, 9.24 million; "Without a Trace" CBS, 9.19 million; "Singing Bee," NBC, 9.09 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 9.05 million; "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 8.90 million; "Criminal Minds," CBS, 8.87 million; "Don't Forget the Lyrics" (Wednesday), Fox, 8.73 million.

(© 2007 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)