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The temporary extension of Good Morning America featuring Lara Spencer and Josh Elliott, builds on Revolution‘s ratings by more than 40%.

The leading Spanish-language network beat all of its English-language counterparts last week among viewers ages 18 to 49. CBS led among all primetime viewers with an average of 5.3 million viewers (3.5 rating/6 share), last week while NBC had 4.9 million (3.0/6), ABC averaged 4 million (2.6/5) and Fox had 3.5 million (2.1/4).

With NBC’s America’s Got Talent not airing on Monday night this week, Fox flexed some muscle. The network, which has been battling with NBC for the lead on Mondays the past month, earned a solid victory among adults 18-49 yesterday with its two Gordon Ramsay cooking programs. Fox averaged a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating and 7 share in primetime, 20% ahead of No. 2 ABC at 2.4/7.

Not airing against the Olympic trials is certainly one way to boost a show’s ratings. ABC’s Secret Millionaire and Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition rebounded from last week’s season lows opposite minimal competition last night, with both shows growing by 25% over last week, when they faced NBC’s highly rated gymnastics and swimming Olympic trials. Both Millionaire and Weight averaged a 1.5 rating in adults 18-49.

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Today and Good Morning America both averaged 4.604 million viewers last week.

CBS has premiered just one new show so far this summer, and so not surprisingly it often lags in last place among the Big Four broadcast networks. But not last night. Despite the fact that CBS aired all reruns, against original competition on ABC and Fox, the network still posted a solid Thursday night victory. An 8:30 p.m. rerun of CBS’s The Big Bang Theory was the night’s highest-rated show with a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating.

NBC’s original broadcast and ensuing encore of the New York celebration best blocks of encores and CBS’s rival pyrotechnics. Univision scored second place in the targeted 18-49 demo, averaging a 1.1 adults rating, while CBS and ABC shared third place with a 0.7 adults rating and posted 4.4 million and 2.7 million viewers respectively.

Three editions of America’s Got Talent on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were the three most-watched programs of the week, Nielsen said. Much of NBC’s schedule was filled out with U.S. Olympic trials, and they all did well compared to the mix of repeats and reality shows on competing networks.

The two talkers are among the few shows that posted gains in the preemption-studded week ending June 24.

The Bachelorette is getting closer to choosing her bachelor, and viewers are apparently eager to see who it will be. Bachelorette posted its best rating in six weeks last night as Emily winnowed the final four to three. The show averaged a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating from 8 to 10 p.m., up 11% from last week.

Sunday’s women’s gymnastics trials scored the best rating for any Olympic trials since August 2000, boosting NBC to an easy win in primetime. Gymnastics averaged a 3.2 adults 18-49 rating from 9 to 11 p.m., NBC’s best rating in the timeslot since February’s Super Bowl. That was up 60% from the 2008 trials, which aired from 7 to 9 p.m. The two-hour program also drew 9.9 million total viewers, also the best for any trials since 2000.

The summer season of ABC’s Wipeout got off to a solid start last night. The 9 p.m. reality competition posted a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating in its 9 p.m. timeslot, the top-rated show of the night and improving on last season’s finale by 27%. The 1.9 was the highest rating for Wipeout since Jan. 12, and it gave ABC its best summer performance in the Thursday 9 p.m. slot in just over a year, since June 23 of 2011.

After tying for No. 1 with Fox the previous two nights, NBC finally shot ahead on Wednesday thanks to yet another highly rated episode of America’s Got Talent. The show averaged a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating from 9 to 11 p.m., well ahead of the evening’s No. 2 show, Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, which drew a 2.0.

The NBA finals dominated the past two weeks on broadcast, but with the series over Fox and NBC’s reality shows returned to form. The two networks tied for first place for the second straight night, both averaging a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating and 7 share last night. NBC’s America’s Got Talent was the night’s No. 1 show, averaging a 3.2 at 9 p.m. It was the highest-rated non-sports show on broadcast since June 5.

Mondays are shaping up as the most competitive night of the week. Fox and NBC tied for first last night with strong schedules, and ABC wasn’t too far behind despite a big second-week decline for The Glass House. Fox and NBC both averaged a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating/7 share for the evening, ABC placed third with a 1.9/6.

After two weeks of its summer test run, the Warner Bros. talk show is posting strong household and demo ratings increases from its year-ago time periods.

On one of the slowest summer nights yet for broadcast, NBC prevailed with Olympics trials coverage and a repeat of the summer’s top show, America’s Got Talent. NBC averaged a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating and 4 share in primetime, ahead of No. 2 Univision at 1.1/3. NBC had three of the four highest-rated programs on broadcast last night, all tying with a 1.2 rating.

Smash, an NBC drama, was first considered a flop, but now is a ratings success among 18-49 viewers when live+7 ratings are factored in. On average, Smash added 2.5 million viewers over seven days of playback and averaged a 3.3 rating among 18-49s.

The series wrapped up a lot quicker than ABC had hoped, but the NBA finals delivered strong ratings for the network while they lasted. Last night the Miami Heat won the title with a 121-106 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, lifting ABC to an easy win on the night. The game averaged a 12.6 household rating, equaling last year’s game five between the Heat and the Dallas Mavericks.

According to Nielsen ratings data, cable deliveries are on a decade-long upward trajectory, and while growth has slowed in recent years, it has not seized up altogether. As it stands now, just a week before the second quarter of 2012 comes to a close, cable is on track to command 70% of TV’s total adults 18-to-49 GRPs in primetime. That marks a tiny uptick from 2Q 2011, when the cable networks accounted for 68%.

Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance continued to dominate the competition on Wednesday night. The show averaged a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating from 8 to 10 p.m., nearly double the No. 2 competitor in the timeslot, Univision, with a 1.3. Though Dance was down 4% from last week, it was up 9% from the same night last year, when it averaged a 2.2.

ABC’s game four of the NBA finals dominated the competition once again last night as the Miami Heat came within one game of wrapping up a championship. ABC more than doubled the night’s No. 2 network, Fox, with a 4.9 rating and 14 share in adults 18-49 in primetime, Fox averaged a 2.1/6. The game peaked with a 6.5 in the 10 p.m. hour, including a 6.9 at 10:30.

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The good doctor was the only first-run daytime strip to post some ratings growth in the week ending June 10.

The controversy over ABC’s new show Glass House didn’t stir up big ratings. The show debuted to so-so numbers last night, much like everything else that’s bowed so far this summer. Glass averaged a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating at 10 p.m., finishing second to NBC’s American Ninja Warrior in the timeslot. The show held only 70% of its lead-in from The Bachelorette.

The first week of a summer test of the Warner Bros. talk show averaged a 0.9 rating/7 share among women 25-54. That’s up 80% from last year on the Fox TV Stations on which it’s airing.

The NBA finals continued to dominate the competition last night, though game three’s rating was the lowest of the three contests played so far. The Miami Heat’s 91-85 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder averaged a 10.4 household rating. The game peaked with a 14.7 from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m.

The daring stunt by Nik Wallenda over Niagara Falls netted 13.1 million viewers in the final half hour, according to preliminary ratings, and easily surpassed other networks for the night.

The Miami Heat tied up the NBA finals at 1-1 last night with a four-point victory over the Oklahoma Thunder. ABC’s victory was a lot bigger. The network scored the best game two overnight rating since 2004, following up the highest-rated opener since it acquired rights to the NBA finals nine years ago. The contest averaged an 11.8 household rating, up 12% over last year’s game two, which averaged a 10.5.

Wednesdays are shaping up as one of the weaker nights on broadcast this summer, with just three original programs airing on the Big Four right now. One of them, Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, led the network to a dominant victory last night. Dance averaged a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating from 8 to 10 p.m., down 4% from a 2.5 last week.

The NBA finals are off to a red-hot start on ABC. Game one of the highly anticipated matchup between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Miami Heat averaged an 11.8 household rating, last night. That was up 10% over last year’s game one between the Heat and the Dallas Mavericks, and it topped the previous record for a game one on ABC by 0.2 (Detroit vs. the Los Angeles Lakers in 2004).

CBS won the week with an average of 5.8 million viewers in primetime last week (3.9 rating/7 share). NBC had 4.9 million (3.1/5), ABC had 4.6 million (3.0/5), Fox had 4 million (2.4/4), Ion Television had 1.1 million (0.8/1) and the CW had 590,000 (0.4/1).

Are commercial-specific TV ratings the way to go in the future? Not according to Group M global CEO Irwin Gotlieb, who used part of his time on stage at the Advertising Research Foundation’s measurement conference Tuesday to dismiss the idea as impractical. He called it a step that could potentially undermine the national TV ratings system.

The new talker from Warner Bros. averages a 1.5 household rating in its first day of a summer test run in six markets.

Not facing competition from summer’s top show, America’s Got Talent, Fox’s Gordon Ramsay cooking shows saw gains last night over last week’s premieres. Hell’s Kitchen averaged a 2.7 adults 18-49 rating at 8 p.m., up 13% over last week’s premiere. It was the No. 1 show on the night.

Last year may have been a record-breaking box office year on Broadway, but it didn’t give the Tony Awards a lift. The awards program managed just a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating from 8 to 11 p.m., down 17% from a 1.2 last year. The show averaged 6 million total viewers, also down quite a bit from last year’s 6.95 million.

The Choice is certainly no The Voice, but it’s not a disaster, either. Fox’s new celebrity dating show, which spoofs the format of NBC’s reality singing program, debuted to mediocre numbers last night, but it did a lot better than the other two programs debuting on the evening. Choice averaged a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating at 9 p.m., tying with ABC’s Duets as the top new show premiere of the summer.