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LATIMES.COM/CALENDAR D11 Returning to its full lineup after postseason baseball, Fox narrowly took the win in the ratings among young adults last week. Meanwhile, CBS grabbed the seventh out of eight weeks among total viewers. CBS was led again by which averaged 19.9 million viewers and ranked No. 3 among the most-watched programs. Fox was helped by and which all were in the top 20 among viewers ages 18 to 49, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nielsen Co.

The most-watched program was Sunday NFL matchup between New England and Pittsburgh, which scored 21.2 million viewers and was also No. 1in the 18-49 group. For the week, CBS averaged 10.7 million viewers, just creeping past ABC (10.1mil- lion). Bringing up the rear were NBC (7.4 million) and Fox (7.3 million). In the 18-49 group, Fox edged past ABC with a 2.8 rating versus 2.6.

most-watched program was Monday NFL contest between the Steelers and the Bengals (15 million). But the week also included premieresof (5 million) and late-night talk show (4.2 million). scott.collins@latimes.com PRIME-TIME TV RANKINGS Young adults love Fox, but CBS wins overall Scott Collins ProgramNet- work Viewers ProgramNet- work Viewers 1 Football: Patriots at Steelers NBC21.18 2 Dancing With the Stars ABC19.95 3 NCISCBS19.87 4 Dancing With the Stars (Results) ABC16.96 5 NFL Pregame --------------------------------------6 NFL postgameFOX16.56 7 CMA AwardsABC16.48 8 NCIS: Los AngelesCBS15.62 9 The Mentalist CBS13.84 10 Two and a Half MenCBS13.63 --------------------------------------11 The Big Bang Theory CBS13.11 12 The OTFOX13.06 13 CSICBS12.99 14 Criminal MindsCBS12.56 15 Football Night America (Part 3) NBC12.39 --------------------------------------16 The Good WifeCBS12.33 17 60 MinutesCBS12.32 18 Desperate Housewives ABC11.92 19 Survivor: NicaraguaCBS11.29 20 AnatomyABC11.13 --------------------------------------21 GleeFOX10.99 22 CastleABC10.83 23 Mike MollyCBS10.80 24 Blue BloodsCBS10.57 25 Undercover BossCBS10.42 --------------------------------------26 The Amazing RaceCBS10.34 27 CSI: MiamiCBS10.26 28 Hawaii 29 CSI: NYCBS10.01 30 My Dad SaysCBS9.72 --------------------------------------31 HouseFOX9.63 32 BonesFOX9.20 33 How I Met Your Mother CBS8.87 34 The SimpsonsFOX8.83 35 Brothers SistersABC8.59 --------------------------------------36 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC8.50 37 The DefendersCBS8.40 38 Private PracticeABC8.21 39 Rules of Engagement CBS8.19 40 No Ordinary FamilyABC7.86 --------------------------------------41 Detroit 42 Law Order: SVUNBC7.18 43 The OfficeNBC7.15 44 Funniest Home Videos ABC7.11 45 Family GuyFOX7.06 --------------------------------------46 Decision PointsNBC7.04 47 MediumCBS6.88 48 Law Order: LANBC6.80 49 The Biggest LoserNBC6.75 50 The Cleveland ShowFOX6.66 --------------------------------------51 Primetime: What Would You Do ABC6.34 52 Latin Grammy (Thu.) UNI6.21 53 KitchenFOX5.93 54 48 Hours MysteryCBS5.89 55 Dateline --------------------------------------56 Raising HopeFOX5.77 57 Soy Tu (Mon.) UNI5.67 58 Soy Tu (Wed.) UNI5.60 Soy Tu 60 The EventNBC5.54 --------------------------------------61 OutsourcedNBC5.47 Kitchen (Wed. 8 p.m.) FOX5.47 63 64 American DadFOX5.38 65 Crimetime SaturdayCBS5.26 --------------------------------------66 Lie to MeFOX5.23 67 SupernannyABC5.16 68 UndercoversNBC5.13 69 30 RockNBC5.09 70 Soy Tu --------------------------------------71 ParenthoodNBC5.00 72 Law Order: SVU (Sat.) NBC4.98 73 FringeFOX4.82 74 FootballABC4.65 75 Crimetime Saturday (8 p.m.) CBS4.62 --------------------------------------76 Football Night America (Part 2) NBC4.58 77 ChaseNBC4.55 78 CommunityNBC4.53 79 CopsFOX4.48 80 Mira Baila (Sun.) UNI4.27 --------------------------------------81 CopsFOX4.20 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date CBS10.7212.69 ABC10.119.94 NBC7.378.06 Fox7.268.24 UNI4.033.99 Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Nov.

8-14) as compiled by the Nielsen Co. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 295 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

reported on the deal among theBeatles, Apple Inc. and EMI Records, which owns the recordings. An Apple Inc. spokesman said Tuesday that company officials would have no additional comment beyond the press release. The timing of the addition of the music to the iTunes store surprising given posting last month of the entire Apple Records catalog of recordings, excluding the music.

That consists of acts including James Taylor, Bad- fingerandMary Hopkin, each of whom the Beatles signed and recorded in the and early after creating their own Apple Records label. announcement brought mixed reaction from Beatles fans, spanning cheers from those happy tofinally to have a way to legally download their music to jeers from others who long ago ripped and burned their favorite songs off CDs or from unauthorized websites. anyone who has wanted to download Beatles songs has already done it via P2P torrents, and they can get them reader FGa- ron posted to The Pop Hiss music blog. and Apple Corps missed the revenue stream a long time ago. The songs have been available on numerous torrent sites for What kept the catalog off iTunes for so long was a complicated web of legal entanglements.

As long ago as 1978 long before digital downloading was a reality Apple Corps, the company the Beatles set up to release its own music, sued Apple Computer over itsuse of the Apple name. Shortly after the 2007 resolution of that long-standing dispute, a settlement put to rest another lawsuit between Apple Corps and EMI Records over royalty payments that Apple said was owed by EMI. great to see Apple finally joining civilization here in said Chris Carter, host of the long-running With the program on KLOS-FM (95.5) in Southern California and on Sirius XM Satellite radio. The Beatles have been the biggest holdout from the iTunes world, but several other major acts still have not licensed music to the downloading service, including Garth Brooks, Kid Rock, Def Leppard, Tool and Bob Seger. Several of those artists have cited their opposition to up albums into individually downloadable tracks.

Others have held out because they happy with the financial terms iTunes offers musicians. The Beatles downloads iTunes is selling are the stereo mixes of the entire cata- lograther than the monaural mixes of Please through White Albumthat the Beatles themselves preferred. Those mixes were released last year in Beatles in 13-CD box set. The new downloads are offered in the iTunes Plus format that is DRM-free using AAC encoding and a 44.1 kilohertzsampling rate. That means the audio quality is far better than standard MP3 audio filesand equivalent to the remastered CDs released last year.

The iTunes Plus downloads are still short of the higher-resolution digital versions issued on an apple-shaped USB edition of the complete catalog released last year in digital files equal to the higher- quality capability of Blu-ray discs. think a downside to said radio host Carter. else are you going to be able to find a copy of for when you need it late on a Friday randy.lewis@latimes.com Mixed reaction from fans Beatles, from great to see Apple finally joining civilization here in I think a downside to Carter, host of With the Alexei Lubimov opened this season of Monday Evening Concerts at the Colburn Zipper Hall with a meditative recital he called But with nine short, aimless pieces from across three centuries and nine borders, the Russian pianist so much the Messenger as the Wanderer. Indeed, if Lubimov had a message, it was cryptic and incongruous. He wrote in his program note about the impossibility of oblivion.

For me, Bob was so much older younger than that came to mind. He began Monday with a Fantasia from 1787 known as in which J.S. son, the year before he died, tried to break free of classical structure. That was followed by John a from 1948, this by the American composer who made a point of trying to write music freed from personal feelings. Around an hour later passing through Tigran Armenia, Hungary, Poland, Georgs Latvia, Galina neurotically indignant Russia and Arvo Estonia, Lubimov arrived in Kiev.

This last piece, by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, attempted to bind itself with the chains of the Classical era musical procedures from the time of C.P.E. Bach. But only problem is that his bonds keep coming loose. Without the oblivion from bondage, the historical circle was complete. Lubimov is a compact, scholarly looking man, born in 1944.

He gets from the piano an exceedingly beautiful tone like that of the great Russian keyboard masters before him. He is an introspective player. His lyricism is a marvel. In Schubert, Chopin, Mozart or Brahms, he can send a listener into the most delicious reveries. And because of that, he is awonderful subversive.

The last time he came to Los Angeles was 15 years ago for two performances. In one, he joined the German tenor Peter Schreier for song cycle The other was a recital of mystical Eastern European music and all-American Sonata, which he plays magnificently. In Moscow, Lubimov was once a musical moving target for the Soviet authorities. He played early music on period keyboards (a most un-Russian pursuit). He also produced a festival of new music that featured frowned-upon works from the Western avant-garde as well as from young Eastern European composers pushing the political envelope.

Although eclecticism is easier to get away with these days, Lubimov is still hard to pin down. He did some unusual things Monday. Though an early music specialist, he played C.P.E. Bach with heavy pedaling, making it sound almost as though this were a Romantic Rach- maninoff arrangement. He turned the purposeless ripples of a into distinct figure and ground, creating melodies and finding places to go, true to the notion of the oblivion of oblivion.

Lugubre Gondola and in C-sharp was each darkly mysterious, yet luminously played. Two movements from Suite No. 3 added a classical patina to cheesy Eastern European pop, as a warm-up to Sonata No. 6. Here Lubimov tempered her belligerent percussive attacks with his poignant bell- like tone.

Finally, serene became prelude to which is played with the piano completely closed to help create the sensation of music from far away. Performed without a break, this fanciful journey lasted not much longer than an hour. Time is relative, and the accommodations were deluxe, so it is hard to complain. But Lubimov has not been in our neck of the woods for a long while, and this was too little from a pianist who covers so much territory. mark.swed@latimes.com Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times MEDITATIVE: Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov took the Monday Evening Concerts audience on a fanciful journey through a wide array of composers, including C.P.E.

Bach, Arvo John Cage, Chopin and Liszt. MUSIC REVIEW Off-message, but grandly so Alexei eclectic piano recital at Zipper Hall deftly turns a wide musical territory into reverie. MARK SWED MUSIC CRITIC Subscribe now! 1-800-326-5500 or myaccount.latimes.com coupon code: 890000. New subscribers only..