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Many critics dissed the hosting combo of James Franco and Anne Hathaway, but considering that the ceremony lacked a huge crowd-pleasing nominee such as last year's "Avatar," Sunday's 83rd Academy Awards telecast on ABC held up pretty well in the ratings.

Lady Gaga in an egg and Justin Bieber resulted in a slight ratings bump for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on CBS. From 8-11:30PM, the show, which crowned Nashville-based Lady Antebellum as the night's big winners, drew 26.55 million viewers and a 10.0/26 in adults 18-49. Compared to last year's highly-rated telecast that aired on Jan. 31, outside the February sweep, the Grammys were up a tenth (1%) in adults 18-49 (from 9.9/24) and 3% in total viewers (from 25.87 million). It was the best delivery for the awards show in adults 18-49 since 2004 and in viewers since 2001. CBS won the night with a 8.2/22 in 18-49 and 23.7 million viewers.

Green Bay's victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl has surpassed last year's record-setting game in the Nielsen Co.'s preliminary ratings measurement of big cities....

It was a case of good news-bad news for Oprah Winfrey today when the ratings for the heavily hyped Monday edition of her syndicated show as well as last week's ratings for her cable network OWN came in.

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The coverage of the Tucson memorial from 8:39-9:20PM wreaked havoc in the broadcast network's primetime lineups last night, with a lot of unannounced, last minutes shifts and pre-emptions.

The debut of MTV's Teen Mom spinoff got off to a solid start. Teen Mom 2 was on par with the original series' Season 2 premiere, drawing 3.6 million viewers at 10 p.m. Compared with the original series debut (2.1 million) in December 2009, the premiere was up significantly.

Guess who started winning nights in the 18-49 demo this season?

Larry King drew 2.24 million viewers for his send-off last night, posting a rare time slot victory for his departing primetime talk show.

Reality dominated the broadcast landscape last night with four hours of original unscripted fare vs. 3 of first-run scripted programming. The penultimate episode of CBS' Survivor: Nicaragua (3.5/11 in 18-49, 12.4 million viewers) was the top program in the adult demo for the night. It was down a tenth from last week while hitting a season high in total viewers.