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Ratings Rave: Stephanopolous-Comey Finishes 2nd for Night to “60 Minutes,” Country Music Awards

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George Stephanopolous’s interview with former FBI director James Comey was a ratings bonanza for ABC last night.

But the 9.7 mil viewers was less than 60 Minutes and the Country Music awards last night. CBS easily took the night.

The Comey interview had 700,000 fewer viewers than “60 Minutes” had had at 7pm. Why Comey and his publisher agreed to ABC at 10pm and not “60 Minutes” at 7pm is a head scratcher.

At 10pm on CBS 11.5 million people watched the final hour of the Country Music Awards. Only 9.7 million watched Comey.

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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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