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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2000 F13oc LOS ANGELES TIMES TODAY ON TV Prime-Time TV Rankings Oscar Programming, 'Millionaire' Give ABC Honors CHANNELS Los Angeles QB KVEA (Tele) 23 Orange County 3 KDOC (Ind.) 56 KCBS (CBS) 02 EQ KJLA (Ind 25 QKNBCINBCI04 03 KLCS (Edu.) 17 S3 KTLA (WB) 05 IS KRCA (Ind 20 KABC (ABC) 07 palra Springs 0KCALlnd.O9 36 KMIH (NBC) 04 TCM "Star Witness" '31 1hr08 TLC Salty 's Lighthouse (TVY) TMC "The Lords of Flatbush" 74 (PG 1hr28 8617813 USA Almost Perfect (TVPG) VH1 Pop-Up Video (TVPG-D) KJLA Bio-Med Check-Up (TVG) BD KLCS Hands On: Crafts for Kids 62707 DISN Rolie Polie Olie (TVY) FSN2 Yoga Zone HIST In Search Of (TVG) NICK Franklin 373981 SCI-FI The Twilight Zone (TVPG) TLC Jay Jay the Jet Plane (TVY) TMC "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" '85 57485788 (10:55) USA Fired Up (TVPG) BDKTTVFox1l 10:00 a.m. 42 KESQ (ABC) 7. IHKC0PUPN13 25 U3KSCIlnd)18 Santa Barbara work's usual sitcoms but gave away almost half of the quiz show's audience. A truer test of the show's appeal will come next week. Several new sitcoms also premiered last week, with Fox's "Titus," ABC's "Then Came You" and NBC's "Daddio" showing promise in retaining viewers from the show preceding them, while "Millionaire" battered NBC's tryout "Battery Park." Two other newcomers, "God, the Devil and Bob" and "Grapevine," are also dying on the vine.

NBC's "The West Wing," meanwhile, keeps solidifying its hit credentials, last week amassing its largest block of Nielsen voters since the White House drama's premiere. BRIAN LOWRY 11:00 a.m. The second-most-watched Oscar telecast of the past five years and an extra movie edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" made ABC the big winner last week, based on viewing estimates issued Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. In addition to solid results for the Academy Awards, ABC drew big numbers for Oscar-adjacent programming. Both the annual Barbara Walters interview special and a half-hour national Oscar preview show, with Walters' "The View" co-host Meredith Vieira, exceeded their year-ago audience as well.

ABC used a pre-Oscar "Millionaire" Friday to introduce its new documentary series "Making the Band," which drew more viewers than the net- Natlonal Nielsen Viewershlp BB KWHY (Ind 22 3 Jc iart 1 07 HD KCET (PBS) 28 3 YTIABCIO? B3 KPXN (PAX) 30 San Bernardino HJKMEXIUni.llA KVCR IPBS) 24 CEJ KTBN (Ind 1 40 Ventura County ED K0CE (PBS) 50 63KADYI.UPN) 16 Cable Services 39 63 NICK 38 AMC 35 ESPN 34 SCI-FI 87 BET 57 ESPN2 84 SHOW 41 47 TBS BRV0 54 FAM CNBC 31 FSN 27 TCM COM 79 FSN2 59 TIC Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (March 20-26) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates that there are 260 million potential U.S. viewers age 2 and older. Viewership is listed here in millions.

CSPN 29 FX CMAX 45 HBO CNN 42 HIST DSC 37 LIFE 89 TMC 33 TNN 30 TNT 46 USA 48 VH1 Nt- Program Program DISN 53 MTV KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV14) B9691 a KABC 421 KESQ Regis Kathie Lee 67287 II KCAL Maury (TVPG) 12707 DO KTTV Divorce Court IB KCOP Montel Williams 58523 03 KSCI I Can Do Itl tB KWHY Noticiario 24 KVCR Sesame Street 70833 53 KCET Barney (TVY) 48165 HD KTBN Dr. Cherry 03 KOCE Instructional TV 03 KVEA Monica 70851 S3 KDOC Life in the Word KJLA Mike Russell (TVG) S3 KLCS Turn On to Algebra AMC "That Lady in Ermine" 48 1hr55 90535726 (9:05) Night Court BET Videolink BRVO Moonlighting CNBC Power Lunch 93349 CNN Newsday COM Whose Line Is It Anyway' DSC Assignment Discovery (TVG) DISN Otter (TVY) Celebrity Profile (TVPG-D) ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Motorcycle Racing FAM It's Itsy Bitsy Time (TVY) FSN Sports Geniuses FX Picket Fences (TVPG-D) HIST The Real West (TVG) LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Little Bear 384097 SCI-FI Highlander (TVPG) TBS Matlock TLC Bingo Molly (TVY) TNN Dukes ot Hazzard TNT Lois Clark (TVPG) USA Hearts Afire (TVPG) 9:30 a.m. Kl KTTV Divorce Court B3 KCET The Puzzle Place 85184 EE KTBN Dean and Mary Brown H3 KDOC Benny Hinn KJLA Dow 30 Report (TVG) HD KLCS 3-2-1 Classroom Contact (9-45I Night Court CMAX "The Hollywood Knights" '80 1 hr32 353788 CNN Burden of Proof 634504 COM Win Ben Stein's Money DISN Out of the Box(TVY FAM CBN Special Edition 290184 FSN2 Gilad's Bodies in Motion HBO "Honkytonk Man" '82 (PG 2hr03 829146 LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Blue's Clues SHOW "Dancing on the Moon" '97 1hr32 51051455 (9 45) 2.03 159 1.40 UPN WB WB Academy Awards ABC Count to Oscar 2000 ABC Millionaire (Tue.) ABC KCBS The Price Is Right (TVG) 1 3 KEYT Home Improvement KNBC Time Again (TVG) KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV14) 86271 ti KABC 42! KESQ The View 88639 EI KCAL Jerry Springer 23977 Di KTTV Queen Latifah 24455 IB KCOP Forgive or Forget 23423 24- KVCR Creative Living 133 KCET Sesame Street 84165 KMEX Maite 36 KMIR Judge Mills Lane 3 KTBN Behind the Scenes ffl KVEA "Kramer vs. Kramer" '79 (PG) 2hr 21962 HD KDOC Film Feature ffl KJLA Richard Saxton (TVG) S3 KLCS in Me: Entrepreneur in You; World of Work (10:151 ffl KRCA Cine Murder, She Wrote BET Hits From the Street BRVO "Where Angels Fear to Tread" '91 2hr45 13035813 CNN CNN Today COM "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" '85 IPG) 2hr 8416455 DSC Home Matters (TVG) DISN Bear in Big Blue House (TVY) The True Hollywood Story ESPN Tennis- Ericsson Open, Men's Quarterfinal Match. 465436 FAM The 700 Club FSN2 The Method FX Beverly Hills.

90210 (TVPG) HIST In Search Of (TVG) LIFE Chicago Hope (TV14-V) NICK Kipper 167417 SCI-FI The Twilight Zone (TVPG) TBS Hunter TLC Pappyland (TVY) TNN TV's Bloopers Practical Jokes (TVG) TNT In the Heat of the Night (TVPG-VI USA Ned and Stacey (TVPG) VH1 New Videos (TVPG) 102. Secret Agent Man 103. Felicity 104. Jacks Jill Cable Top 10 KCBS The Young and the Restless (TV14 28233 CI KNBC News KTLA Judge Mills Lane KABC 3 i KEYT Port Charles (TVPGI 87349 a KCAL Judge Mathis (TVPG) DO KTTV Living Single KCOP Jenny Jones (TVPG) 94349 133 KWHY Quien Tiene la Razdn 241 KVCR Sewing With Nancy S3 KCET Noddy (TVY) 54639 KJ KMEX Querida (TVPG) 85691 36! KMIR The People's Court 03 KTBN James Robison 42! KESQ Leeza 71691 S3 KDOC Southland Today KJLA Local Angle (TVG) S3 KLCS Using Maps, Globes, Graphs, Tables, Charts and Diagrams 63 KADY The Newlywed Game AMC "One Minute to Zero" '52 2nr 789788 Magnum. P.I.

BET Jam Zone CMAX "Gloria" '99(R)1hr40 8431146 CNBC Street Signs CSPN House of Representatives 1 557233 DSC Lynette Jennings Design (TVG) DISN Winnie the Pooh (TVY) ESPN2 Strongest Man Competition FAM Who's the Boss? FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPG) HIST FBI: The Untold Stories (TVPG) LIFE Unsolved Mysteries (TVPG) MTV Return of the Rock (TVPG) NICK Gullah Gullah Island 583271 SCI-FI Star Trek SHOW "The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer" '98 1hr13 TBS "Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride" '92 2hr05 14565358 TCM "The Divorcee" '30 1hr23 2843368 Please see TV LOG Fll Here are Nielsen's top 10 cable programs in prime time last week, also ranked by total viewers (in millions). Net- Vktw-FTograa wont an Use numbers after call letters to set VCR Plus. Where there are two numbers, repeat the procedure (B) in the grid, denotes a repeat program TV RATINGS (TVY) All Children (TVY7) Directed to Older Children (TVY7-FV) Directed to Older Children, FantasyViolence (TVG) General Audience (TVPG) Parental Guidance (TV14) Parents Strongly Cautioned (TVMAI Mature Audiences Only Suggestive Dialogue III Coarse Language Sex (V) Violence jj ULJ Wrestling 10 p.m.) Wrestling 9 pm.) The Sopranos Wrestling 7 p.m.) Wrestling 8 p.m.) Walker, Texas Ranger Ripley's Believe It or Not Rocket Power Lost and Found Rocket Power USA USA HBO USA TNT USA TBS NICK HBO NICK 765 7.45 551 3.59 3.36 3.26 3.18 3.14 313 310 KEN HIVELY L.A. Times Warren Beatty NBC ABC ABC NBC NBC NBC NBC CBS ABC ABC CBS NBC ABC NBC FOX ABC CBS FOX ABC CBS CBS ABC CBS CBS NBC ABC CBS NBC FOX CBS FOX ABC ABC CBS ABC NBC ABC ER Millionaire (Thur.) Millionaire (Fri.) Friends Frasier Daddio Law Order Everybody Lows Raymond Barbara Walteis Special DhaimaaGreg Becker The West Wing NYPDBlue Battery Partt Ally McBeal The Drew Carey Show Judging Amy Titus John Stossel Special 60 Minutes 60 Minutes II Sports Night Family Law King of Queens Dateline NBC (Wed.) Spin City Touched by an Angel Law a. Older SVU That '70s Show JAG The Simpsons Two Guys and a Girt "Making the Band" NCAA Basket Post (Sun.) Then Came You Third Watch 2020 (Fn.) 62.

63. NCAA Basketball (Thur.) King of the HID NCAA Basketball (Fri.) Profiler The Others Movie Ratings A CLASSIC FIRST RATE FLAWED: HAS MOMENTS DESPERATION TIME Morning Network Averages Here is the number of viewers that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. 67. Cops 10:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

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46.33 30.33 29.80 27.19 25.67 21.82 21.46 20.00 19.71 18.67 1839 18.16 1718 17.00 15.76 1514 14.70 14.41 1420 1420 1419 1345 1322 1308 12.70 12.66 12.45 12.46 12.33 1332 12.11 11.91 1181 1168 1165 1155 11.42 11.14 1083 10 70 1067 10.40 10.39 10.30 10.22 10.17 10.17 996 992 992 989 9.69 9 59 9.57 927 921 9.15 9.06 899 886 8.35 131 KEYT Mad About You (TVPG) 241 KVCR Kaye's Quilting Friends 36 KMIR Judge Mills Lane HD KTBN Casey Treat S3 KDOC Froozles (TVG) 374691 fl KCBS Martha Stewart 38707 3 1 KEYT Regis Kathie Lee KNBC 36 KMIR Later Today Last Season met to date ABC 17.68 million 14.29 NBC 11.12 12.59 CBS 11.01 12.75 FOX 7.95 9.24 UPN 4.04 3.94 WB 3.11 3.76 RADIO CBS FOX CBS NBC NBC FOX FOX ABC FOX NBC FOX UPN ABC FOX FOX NBC WB NBC NBC FOX NBC FOX FOX FOX WB WB UPN UPN WB UPN UPN UPN UPN WB UPN UPN WB WB WB W8 808 802 802 7.97 7.94 7.84 7.80 761 757 7.51 749 7.27 718 697 6.56 6.48 616 6.04 596 589 5.43 5.42 5.42 467 4.53 4.32 4.11 3.94 382 3.74 3.55 3.43 3.37 3.16 304 2.95 251 2.51 249 2.46 Whose line Is It? (8:30 run.) ABC NCAA Basket Post (Sal) CBS Southland Viewing Here are Nielsen's Top 10 prime time programs in the Los Angeles area during the same week. The rankings are based on the number of households watching. Greed "Sling Blade" That 70s Snow (Tue.) 3rd Rock From the Sun Beverly Hilts. 90210 WWFSmackdown! "Peter Jennings Repotting" Family Guy The X-Files "Bulletproof 7th Heaven Freaks a Geeks God, me Devil and Be Futurama Get Real World's Wildest Police Videos American Comedy Awards Party of Five Buffy, the Vampire Slayer Charmed ThePaikeis Star Trek: Voyager Angel Moesha 7 Days Grownups Malcolm Eddie Dawson's Cieek "Striking Distance" The Beat Burly, Vampire Slayer (Mon.) Popular 7th Heaven Beginnings Roswefl ngrm FOX CBS NBC NBC CBS N8C NBC ABC NBC CBS A8C CBS NBC FOX FOX CBS Classical 1 1:20 a.m. noon Masterpiece of the Day: Dvorak (5lh Symphony, Czech Philharmonic), KKGO-KM (105.1).

7- 8 p.m. Symphony at Seven: Hanson (2nd Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra), KKCO-T'M (105.1). 8- 11 p.m. Opera House: Giordano's "Andrea Chenier," with I'lacido Domingo, Rcnala Scolto, Sherrill Milnes, lean Kraft; lames Levine conducts National Philharmonic Orchestra and lohn Aldis Choir, KCSN-IM (88.5).

Sports Noon-3 p.m. Baseball: exhibition, Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Angels, K1jC(570). 3-6 p.m. Baseball: exhibition, Dodgers vs.

Braves, KXTA(1150). p.m. Pro Basketball: Lakers at Vancouver Grizzlies, KLAC (570). 7-10 p.m. Pro Hockey: San Jose Sharks at Kings, KRU (1110).

Talk-Interview Noon-l p.m. Let's Do Lunch, local culture, KCSN-I'M (88.5). Noon-2 p.m. George Putnam's Talkback, K1HV (870). Noon-3 p.m.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Kl-'l (640). Noon-3 p.m. Jonathon Brandmeier, KLSX-I'M (97.1). Noon-3 p.m.

Dan Lungren, KPLS (1130). Noon-3 p.m. Dr. Ton! Grant, Kitl.A (1110). p.m.-AI Rantel, KABC (790).

I p.m.-Talk of the City, KPCC-I (89.3). 2- 5 p.m.-Michael Medved, KIEV (870). 3- 4 p.m.-Clark Howard, KF1 (640). 3-7 p.m. Larry Elder, KABC (790).

Tips for Today II a.m. -noon, 1-2 p.m. Performance Today: violinist Mark O'Connor (1 1 a.m. -noon); pianist Mauriio Pollini (1-2 p.m.), KCSN-IM (88.5). 8- 10 p.m.

Evening Concert: chaikovsky (Violin Concerto in 1), Itzhak Pcrlman, Ormandv conducts Philadelphia Orchestra), KKGO-FM (105.1). 9- 9:30 p.m., a.m. Gunsmokc: A soldier is killed in Dodge City and Marshal Dillon (William Conrad) has 48 hours to solve (he case before the Army takes over, KNX(1070). p.m. Live From Rocco: live broadcast featuring the Chuck Manning Trio.

K1)1S(710). Drama-Comedy-Family p.m., a.m. The Whistler: A rags-to-riches story results after a killing, KNX (1070). America Rghts Back "Primal Fear" Dateline NBC (Fri.) Just Shoot Me Walker, Texas Ranger Twenty One Dateline NBC (Tue.) 2020 (Wed.) Wilis dace Earfy Edition Whose Line Is It Anyway? "Passenger 57" Providence Titus (Sun.) Cops (8:30 p.m.) "A Tale of Two Bunnies" Grapevine The Pretender City of Angels Academy Awards Barbara Walters Special Friends Millionaire (Fri.) Millionaire (Tue?) Frasier Millionaire (Thur.) ER "Making the Band" "Evening Academy Awards" Daddio KABC KABC KNBC KABC KABC KNBC KABC KNBC KABC KABC KNBC 2.256,156 1,240,624 999,828 994,593 952,715 931,777 884,664 842,787 842,787 827,083 827,083 NBC CBS Vlj; f-Hi itfvi i i r. y.i t.

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