America’s Got Talent Got 12.4 Million Viewers
NBC’s America’s Got Talent according to offical rating was watched by over 12.4 million people, for the two hour premier on Wednesday June 21, 2006. Their is an encore performance sheduled for tonight 6-23-06 with a new eposide next wednesday 6-28-06.
The two-hour broadcast was the night’s most-watched program on U.S. television and the highest-rated among viewers aged 18 to 49 — the prime-time audience that matters most to advertisers, Nielsen Media Research reported on Thursday.
Averaging 12.4 million total viewers, it also marked NBC’s strongest Nielsen performance in the Wednesday 9-11 p.m. time slot since April 2005, excluding the network’s Winter Olympics coverage this year.
The 18-49 score notched by “America’s Got Talent” was 84 percent higher than the NBC average for the same time period last summer, and 44 percent above its tally for that slot all last season. NBC finished the regular season fourth in the ratings among the major broadcast networks.