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Article: Alphabet rivals get a break: net holds onto sweeps lead.(National Broadcasting Company Inc. and CBS Broadcasting Inc. benefit from low opening of ABC's "Day Break")
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 17, 2006
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ABC is halfway home to a November sweeps demo victory but left the door open for CBS--and perhaps even NBC--after the Alphabet's "Day Break" opened to nothing-special scores.
The Taye Diggs drama did OK coming out of the "Dancing With the Stars" finale, but it has big shoes to fill since it will be replacing "Lost" on the sked the final two Wednesdays of the ratings period. And CBS looks poised to move to the lead on the night thanks to its winning crime dramas "Criminal Minds" and "CSI: NY."
Wednesday also saw "Medium" return to the NBC sked with numbers similar to "Day Break."
Through two weeks of the four-week sweep period (Nov. 2-29), ...