‘90210’ Premiere Wins in Time Slot

The season premiere of “Beverly Hills, 90210” won its time period for Fox last week, but reruns still dominated the top of the ratings list released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.

“Beverly Hills, 90210” ranked 21st among the week’s 103 prime-time network programs in total viewers, while the season premiere of another Fox drama, “Party of Five,” was 48th, having lost about 21% of the “Beverly Hills” audience on Wednesday night.

On Sunday, the premieres of the WB comedies “The Steve Harvey Show” and “Life With Roger” ranked 89th and 99th, respectively.

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Southland Ratings

Here are A.C. Nielsen’s Top 10 prime-time programs in the Los Angeles area during the same week. Each rating point equals 50,064 households.

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Program Station Rating 1. 3rd Rock From the Sun KNBC 17.8 2. Seinfeld KNBC 17.0 3. Friends KNBC 14.4 4. The Single Guy KNBC 13.9 5. Beverly Hills, 90210 KTTV 13.5 6. ER KNBC 12.6 7. Frasier KNBC 12.3 8. Dateline NBC (Tue.) KNBC 11.8 9. “A Child’s Cry for Help” KNBC 11.2 -- Home Improvement KABC 11.2

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Weekly Averages

NBC: 8.3

CBS: 7.5

ABC: 7.2

FOX: 5.3

WB: 2.6

UPN: 2.4

Season to Date

NBC: 11.6

ABC: 9.6

CBS: 8.9

FOX: 6.5

UPN: 2.8

WB: 2.4

Note: This abbreviated version of the TV ratings will appear each week until the fall season begins.

Source: A.C. Nielsen