‘60 Minutes’ Tops Slot but NBC Gets Week

The TV ratings world was back to normal last week as “60 Minutes”--with Andy Rooney and without competition from “America’s Funniest Home Videos”--won its time period and NBC won the week, it was reported today.

CBS displaced ABC from second place, with help from its classy Sunday movie, “The Incident,” and from the Miss USA Beauty Pageant, which came in 20th and was up 10% in the ratings over last year.

NBC won five nights of the week --Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, while CBS took Friday and Sunday. ABC had none, but it did have the top-rated show of the week, “Roseanne.”

“60 Minutes” with Andy Rooney came in fourth for the week, up about three share points from its average showing with a 22.0 rating and a 37 share.

“America’s Funniest Home Videos,” back in its regular time slot instead of opposite the CBS news magazine, came in fifth with a 21.8 rating and a 33 share.

There was no contest in the Sunday movie department, with “AT&T; Presents: The Incident” in seventh place with a 20.5 rating and a 33 share--the highest rated Sunday movie on any network this season.

NBC won the ratings race for the week for the 20th consecutive time, and 88th out of the last 89 weeks.

TOP 10 SHOWS

Here are the ratings for national prime-time television last week (Feb. 26-March 4), as compiled by the A. C. Nielsen Co.

Program (Network): Rating

1. Roseanne (ABC): 22.7

2. The Cosby Show (NBC): 22.4

3. Cheers (NBC): 22.3

4. 60 Minutes (CBS): 22.0

5. Funniest Home Videos (ABC): 21.8

6. A Different World (NBC): 21.0

7. “The Incident” (CBS): 20.8

8. The Golden Girls (NBC): 20.1

9. Empty Nest (NBC): 19.5

10. Wonder Years (ABC): 19.2