Saturday, July 4, 2026

TV Ratings: Olympics Beat Beatles, But Fab Four Score is Still Huge

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There was so much on TV last night! But the Olympics won the night with over 25 million viewers, a 6.9 share and a whopping 18 rating in the key demo (18-49).

But the Beatles impressed. The two and a half hour show produced almost 13.5 million total viewers. The 5 share was the second highest of the night for everything else but the Olympics. But it was older, wiser folks who tuned. The key demo number was 2.1.

At the least the Beatles brought the key demo up a bit. It was twice as much as “60 Minutes,” which preceded.

CBS would have been better off letting Ken Ehrlich just put on the three hour show as planned. That last half hour, a rerun of “The Millers,” did little business.

 

 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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