Ratings: CMA Awards a Winner, Bionic Nightmare
Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley and Kellie Pickler by Rick Diamond/WireImage.com
This Wednesday, as ABC's broadcast of the CMA Awards matched last year's audience of 15.9 million total viewers and dominated in the key demos:
8 pm/ET
Kid Nation (7.15 million, up 250 thou) was a distant second, followed by Fox's sitcombo of
Back to You (6.38 mil, -520K) and
'Til Death (6.48 mil, -500K). Behind
Phenomenon (6.1 mil),
Top Model (5.07 mil) gained 350K.
9 pm
Criminal Minds was down a hair, to 14.54 mil.
Bionic Woman dropped another 1.34 mil, and at 6.44 mil viewers placed just barely ahead of
Kitchen Nightmares (6.36 mil).
Gossip Girl held steady at 2.5 mil.
10 pm
CSI: NY drew 12.87 mil, losing the same 630,000 viewers that
Life (rising to 6.41 mil) seemed to gain.
