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9M view first episode of ‘Roosevelts’

NEW YORK

Once again, millions of television viewers are transporting themselves to another century under the guidance of Ken Burns.

An estimated 9.1 million people watched the first episode of Burns’ seven-part series on Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt on Sunday. PBS aired it twice Sunday to maximize attention; the Nielsen company’s estimate was the combined viewership of both episodes.

Otherwise, prime-time television was dominated by football and football-related programming last week.

An estimated 7.1 million people watched the “Miss America” competition on ABC. That was down from the 8.6 million people who watched last year, but still one of the bigger numbers reached by the pageant over the last decade.

CBS won the week in prime time, averaging 8.3 million viewers. NBC had 7.8 million viewers, ABC had 4.1, Fox had 2.9 million, Univision had 2.7 million, Telemundo had 1.3 million, ION Television had 1.2 million and the CW had 930,000.

For the week of Sept. 8-14, the top five shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Football: Chicago at San Francisco, NBC, 22.16 million; NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Baltimore, CBS, 20.77 million; “Sunday Night Pre-Kickoff,” NBC, 16.69 million; “Thursday Night Pre-Kickoff,” CBS, 13.86 million; NFL Football: N.Y. Giants at Detroit, ESPN, 13.73 million.

Associated Press