The Academy Awards topped Week 23’s ratings, but that still didn’t give ABC the win overall. Rather, Fox won another week in 18-49 and CBS took the title for Household ratings.
In 18-49 Fox had an average rating of 2.9 and an 8 share, with CBS at 2.5/7, ABC 2.0/6, NBC 1.9/5, Univision 1.5/4, CW 0.6/2, Telemundo 0.4/1, Ion and TeleFutura 0.3/1 and EstrellaTV and Azteca America 0.1/0.
In HH CBS was at 6.8/11, with Fox 5.1/8, ABC 4.2/7, NBC 3.5/6, Univision 1.9/3, CW 0.9/1, Ion 0.7/1, Telemundo 0.6/1, TeleFutura 0.4/1 and Azteca America and EstrellaTV 0.1/0.
Here are the week’s top 20 programs:
| The Nielsen Company Broadcast Ranking Report | |||||
| Network primetime (Live + SD) week of 02/20/12 – 02/26/12 | |||||
| Rank | Program | Network | HH Rating | HH Share | 2+ Audience (000) |
| 1 | ACADEMY AWARDS(S) | ABC | 22.6 | 34 | 39341 |
| 2 | OSCAR’S RED CARPET LIVE-3(S) | ABC | 14.3 | 22 | 24068 |
| 3 | NCIS | CBS | 11.9 | 18 | 19288 |
| 4 | OSCAR’S RED CARPET LIVE-2(S) | ABC | 10.2 | 17 | 16625 |
| 5 | NCIS: LOS ANGELES | CBS | 9.8 | 15 | 15468 |
| 6 | BIG BANG THEORY, THE | CBS | 9.7 | 16 | 16198 |
| 7 | AMERICAN IDOL-THURSDAY | FOX | 9.3 | 15 | 15644 |
| 7 | AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY | FOX | 9.3 | 15 | 16104 |
| 9 | VOICE | NBC | 9.0 | 13 | 16042 |
| 10 | PERSON OF INTEREST | CBS | 8.8 | 14 | 14555 |
| 11 | MENTALIST, THE | CBS | 8.3 | 14 | 13364 |
| 12 | CRIMINAL MINDS | CBS | 8.0 | 12 | 12778 |
| 12 | TWO AND A HALF MEN | CBS | 8.0 | 12 | 13328 |
| 14 | OSCAR’S RED CARPET LIVE-1(S) | ABC | 7.8 | 14 | 12577 |
| 15 | CSI | CBS | 7.5 | 13 | 11914 |
| 16 | BLUE BLOODS | CBS | 7.3 | 13 | 11349 |
| 17 | UNFORGETTABLE | CBS | 7.1 | 12 | 10697 |
| 18 | MIKE & MOLLY | CBS | 6.9 | 10 | 11333 |
| 19 | MODERN FAMILY | ABC | 6.8 | 10 | 11537 |
| 20 | 2 BROKE GIRLS | CBS | 6.7 | 10 | 11374 |
| Source: The Nielsen Company | |||||
