DANCING WITH THE STARS - DANCERS AND HOOPSTERS CONTEND

DANCERS AND HOOPSTERS CONTEND

Dancing competition vied with college basketball competition Monday night and the result was pretty much a draw -- with ABC's Dancing With the Stars coming out ahead in total viewers and CBS's telecast of the NCAA basketball tournament coming out ahead among viewers 18-49. A 90-minute Dancing averaged 19.59 million viewers, peaking in the final half hour (9 00 p.m.) with 21.37 million. The March Madness telecast averaged 16.29 million viewers, peaking in the second half hour (9 30 p.m.) with 18.91 million viewers. Also scoring strongly Monday night were Fox's House , with 13.01 million viewers and 24 , with 11.04 million.

07/04/2009