In a poor year for the ratings, NBC finds his voice

NEW YORK--after only a year spent mostly in the desert, NBC may have found his voice.

"Voice," new talent of the network show, had an audience of 12.6 million viewers for its second episode last week, the Nielsen Co. stated. This was an increase of 7% - by its first that in fact the first new series on the four major broadcast networks this season to have more viewers for its second week as the first.

Professional singers Adam Levine, Central and Eastern Europe Lo Green, Blake Shelton, and Christina Aguilera are "coaches" for their own teams of fans of the series. Among 18-to-49-year youth demographic, only two editions of "american idol" obtained greatest public last week, Nielsen said.

The series continues until the last week of June. Next competition of NBC show, the popular "the America Got Talent," first on May 31.

Good grades in the summer don't mean as much that they do in the season of traditional television from September to June. But having a couple of shows which attract an audience this summer could help NBC promote its new programming for the fall.

NBC was still a fourth distant in ratings despite "the voice", an indication of how thin annex of prime-time network is. "Law & Order: SVU," No. 30, was the only other NBC show to finish in top 35 Nielsen programs.

Approximately 14.1 million people watched President Barack Obama on "60 Minutes" Sunday, interviewed by Steve Kroft on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. That beats the average season of 13.4 million for the magazine and was particularly remarkable because he saw the day of the mother during the hours of daylight - factors which usually depreciate the public of the show.

HBO also noted that after four occurrences, "Game of Thrones" is already more popular third series of the network behind "true blood" and "boardwalk Empire". The last episode has a total of 8.5 million people, he looked the week last in various locations of time and through on-demand, Nielsen said.

CBS averaged 10 million viewers in prime time, last week (rating 6.2, part 10). ABC was 9.1 million viewers (5.8, 10), Fox had 8.4 million (4.9, 8), NBC has 5.7 million (3.6, 6), the CW has $ 1.7 million (1.1, 2) and the ION television had 960 000 (0.6, 1).

Among Spanish-language networks, Univision led with an average of 3.4 million prime-time (1.8 rating, 3 share), Telemundo was $ 1.4 million, 0.7, 1, TeleFutura showed some 460,000 (0.2, 1) Azteca 300 000 (0.2, 0) and Estrella had 250,000 (0.1), 0).

For a very active week after the death of Osama bin Laden, NBC "nightly news" has overcome news evening with an average of 9 million viewers (6.0, 12). "The ABC News World" was second with $ 8 million (5.4, 11) and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.8 million viewers (3.9, 8).

A ratings point represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation estimated 114.7 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of television sets in use tuned to a given show.

"For the week of 2 to 8 may, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: 'Dancing with the Stars,' ABC, 21.4 million;"American Idol "(Thursday), Fox, 21,29 million." "american idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 21,14 million. "NCIS," CBS, 17.87 million. "Dance with the stars results," ABC, 16.06 million dollars; "NCIS: Los Angeles,"CBS, 14.16 million;"."60 Minutes, CBS, 14.1 million. "The Mentalist," CBS, $ 14 million. "Criminal minds," CBS, 12.9 million. "Voice," NBC, 12,58 million.