Looks like Marc's already taken care of Friday and Saturday

Overall:

ABC - 20.1/30 HH, 11.7/27 A18-49, 33.707 million viewers
CBS - 5.3/8 HH, 2.1/5 A18-49, 8.262 million viewers
NBC - 3.4/5 HH, 1.6/4 A18-49, 5.092 million viewers
FOX - 5.4/8 HH, 4.1/9 A18-49, 9.314 million viewers
CW - 1.5/2 HH, 0.8/2 A18-49, 2.201 million viewers

ABC
7pm - Barbara Walters Oscar Special - 12.0/19 HH, 6.0/15 A18-49, 19.662 million viewers
8pm - Road to the 2007 Oscars - 19.7/29 HH, 10.7/24 A18-49, 32.926 million viewers
8:30pm (aired until approx. 12:00am) - The 79th Annual Academy Awards - 23.5/35 HH, 14.1/31 A18-49, 39.481 million viewers

CBS
7pm - 60 Minutes - 6.1/10 HH, 1.7/4 A18-49, 9.245 million viewers
8pm - The Amazing Race: All Stars - 4.9/7 HH, 2.9/6 A18-49, 8.185 million viewers
9pm - Without A Trace (Repeat) - 5.4/8 HH, 2.0/4 A18-49, 8.378 million viewers
10pm - Cold Case (Repeat) - 5.0/8 HH, 1.8/4 A18-49, 7.240 million viewers

NBC
7pm - Dateline (Time Period Premiere) - 3.5/6 HH, 1.2/3 A18-49, 5.014 million viewers
8pm - Grease: You're The One That I Want - 3.0/4 HH, 1.5/3 A18-49, 4.590 million viewers
9pm - Crossing Jordan (Repeat) - 2.8/4 HH, 1.4/3 A18-49, 4.109 million viewers
10pm - Crossing Jordan - 4.2/7 HH, 2.3/5 A18-49, 6.655 million viewers

FOX
7pm - NASCAR: Nextel Cup Overrun - 6.7/11 HH, 4.9/13 A18-49, 11.962 million viewers
8pm - The Simpsons (Repeat) - 4.8/7 HH, 3.8/9 A18-49, 8.369 million viewers
8:30pm - The Simpsons (Repeat) - 4.7/7 HH, 3.5/8 A18-49, 7.834 million viewers
9pm - Family Guy (Repeat) - 4.6/7 HH, 3.7/8 A18-49, 7.913 million viewers
9:30pm - Family Guy (Repeat) - 4.6/7 HH, 3.8/8 A18-49, 7.842 million viewers

CW
7pm - Reba (Repeat) - 1.7/3 HH, 0.9/2 A18-49, 2.604 million viewers
7:30pm - Reba (Repeat) - 2.1/3 HH, 1.1/3 A18-49, 3.204 million viewers
8pm - 7th Heaven (Repeat) - 1.6/2 HH, 0.8/2 A18-49, 2.420 million viewers
9pm - Beauty and the Geek Reunion (Repeat) - 0.9/1 HH, 0.6/1 A18-49, 1.277 million viewers

Oscar telecast will likely change in the finals...

A repeat of Reba still gets 3.2 million. The CW would be wise to keep airing Reba repeats there.

Does anyone have the data from last year's Oscar telecast to determine if it went up or down?

Too bad about The Amazing Race. The episode was actually quite fun and suspenseful. I knew it would take a big hit against the Academy Awards though.

Same with Grease. I am not sure why the show is not attracting more viewers; last night's episode was the best yet.

Did CBS ever announce whay they flipped Cold Case and Without a Trace?

I'm kinda surprised - Fox and CBS posted some surprisingly decent numbers against the Oscars.

Hey! Where are the winners and losers? Marc always gives us the winners and losers!

Never mind, I'll do it.

Winners: Scorsese, TiVo owners, people with good cable.

Losers: Ellen DeGeneres. NEXT!

FOX's animation repeats performed quite well in the ratings.

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Did CBS ever announce whay they flipped Cold Case and Without a Trace?

They were listed as repeat specials... so it's not a permanent thing as far as I understand it!

I don't think Ellen was that bad, but she really didn't hit it out of the park like I hoped she would.

They should get George Lopez to do it; has anyone seen his new act on HBO? HILARIOUS. the FEMA joke is amazing.

as for the Oscars, I'm sure ABC is happy.

After all that 1.1 that Reba got was better then that 1.0 Veronica Mars got

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Hey! Where are the winners and losers? Marc always gives us the winners and losers!

Hahahah. Well, when I start getting paid to have official opinions, instead of just having my own, we'll talk winners / losers

I actually liked Ellen. She was congenial, played very well to the Hollywood crowd. John Stewart was better, but he was way over the A-listers' heads. And the telecast was full of so many "surprises" (I mean, seriously... the Academy practically voted AWAY from the guild awards) that despite the pomp and circumstance, it was at least infuriating to those who were in office pools

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Originally posted by pisher:
Hey! Where are the winners and losers? Marc always gives us the winners and losers!

Never mind, I'll do it.

Winners: Scorsese, TiVo owners, people with good cable.

Losers: Ellen DeGeneres. NEXT!

Actually, I rather liked Ellen. She wasn't as entertaining as Billy Crystal (but without the smugness that tends to hang over his stints as host...) but I thought she did better than Chris Rock and John Stewart.

Best host of the last decade? For me, it was Steve Martin.

That first Simpsons that came on right after the Nascar race was strong!!

Did anyone else think the Oscars were really boring. The only thing I liked was the Jack Black/Will Ferrel musical number. I DVR'd the whole show and fastforwarded through the entire thing in about 20 minutes.

Someone needs to tell the Dreamgirls that there is a big difference between singing and over-singing.

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
Did CBS ever announce whay they flipped Cold Case and Without a Trace?

It's a network trick -- if a show does not air in its regular timeslot it doesn't count in the Season-to-Date rating. (It's classified as a special.) ABC has done this a few times in the past with DH -- moved it to 10/9PM.