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With such heavy, heavy hitters as Mark McGwire and Mike Piazza sidelined by injuries, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game hit record-low ratings for NBC, finishing 5th with only 14.7 million fans (down nearly 3 million since last year). CBS' Survivor (1st), on the other hand, reached a new high-water mark of 24.5 million viewers. The Eye's other voyeurism experiment, Big Brother, rose to 14th on Thursday (when the first housemates were nominated for ejection), but fell to 62nd for its Saturday episode. Times are even harder for dramas: In its new Thursday-at-9-o'clock slot, Steven Bochco's CBS hospital series City of Angels landed in a less-than-divine 88th place, and the country didn't embrace Young Americans, either, as The WB's summer soap sank to 100th.
TOP 30 LAST VIEWERS* WEEK
1 24.5 SURVIVOR CBS, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 1 2 21.8 WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE ABC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 3 3 21.4 WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE ABC, Sunday, 9 p.m. 4 4 20.3 WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE ABC, Tuesday, 8 p.m. -- 5 14.7 BASEBALL: ALL-STAR GAME NBC, Tuesday, 8:46 p.m. -- 6 14.6 20/20 DOWNTOWN ABC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 6 7 13.8 THE PRACTICE (R) ABC, Sunday, 10 p.m. 12 8 12.9 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (R) CBS, Monday, 9 p.m. 17 9 12.7 LAW & ORDER (R) NBC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 11 10 12.3 DHARMA & GREG (R) ABC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. -- 11 11.7 JUDGING AMY (R) CBS, Wednesday, 9:02 p.m. -- 12 11.6 BECKER (R) CBS, Monday, 9:30 p.m. -- 13 11.5 48 HOURS (R) CBS, Monday, 10 p.m. 14 14 11.0 60 MINUTES (R) CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. 7 11.0 BIG BROTHER CBS, Thursday, 8 p.m. 10 16 10.7 FRIENDS (R) NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 13 17 10.6 BASEBALL: ALL-STAR PREGAME NBC, Tuesday, 8 p.m. -- 18 10.5 BIG BROTHER CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. -- 19 10.3 20/20 ABC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. -- 20 9.9 MOVIE: CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART? (R) CBS, Tuesday, 9 p.m. -- 21 9.8 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (R) CBS, Sunday, 8 p.m. 9 9.8 TWO GUYS AND A GIRL (R) ABC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. -- 23 9.7 LAW & ORDER (R) NBC, Monday, 9 p.m. 36 9.7 DATELINE NBC NBC, Monday, 8 p.m. 47 25 9.2 THE KING OF QUEENS (R) CBS, Monday, 8:30 p.m. 40 9.2 20/20 ABC, Friday, 10 p.m. 21 27 9.1 FRASIER (R) NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 20 28 9.0 THE WEST WING (R) NBC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 35 9.0 LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT (R) NBC, Friday, 10 p.m. 29 30 8.9 THE SIMPSONS (R) Fox, Sunday, 8 p.m. 24 8.9 48 HOURS (R) CBS, Thursday, 10 p.m. 25
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF JULY 10-16, 2000 SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
