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TBS, which extensively aired baseball playoff action, was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 4 million viewers in prime time. ESPN had 2.9 million, The Disney Channel had 2.2 million, Fox News Channel had 1.74 million and USA had 1.67 million. NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.5 million viewers. ABC's "World News" was second with 7.7 million, and the "CBS Evening News" had 6.6 million viewers. Nielsen also has begun measuring the number of Twitter messages about TV shows and how many people see them. Under its new metrics, ABC's "Scandal" had the most activity last week: An estimated 3.7 million people saw tweets about the show the night it was broadcast. MTV's "Miley: The Movement" and NBC's "Saturday Night Live" were next most popular on Twitter. For the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "NCIS," CBS, 19.98 million; "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 18.22 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 17.94 million; NFL Football: Houston at San Francisco, NBC, 17.69 million; "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.09 million; "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 14.54 million; "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 14.12 million; NFL Football: Miami at New Orleans, ESPN, 13.72 million; "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 13.29 million; "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.1 million. ___ ABC and ESPN are owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. TBS is owned by Time Warner Inc. USA is owned by NBC Universal.
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