SURVIVOR - RATINGS DOWN, THOUGH SURVIVOR'S SURVIVAL NOT IN DOUBT

RATINGS DOWN, THOUGH SURVIVOR'S SURVIVAL NOT IN DOUBT

Ratings for the season debut of the latest Survivor series may have been down considerably from previous years, but they were good enough to beat all the competition Thursday night. For its premiere, Survivor: Micronesia recorded a 7.9 rating and a 12 share, to win the 8:00 p.m. time period. Nevertheless, the results were off nearly 20 percent from a year ago. ABC's Lost took the 9:00 p.m. hour, scoring the highest numbers of the night -- a 9.0/14. Still, those numbers, too, were down -- some 7 percent from a year ago. A repeat airing of CBS's Without a Trace took the 10:00 p.m. hour with a 7.4/12. During the same hour, ABC's Eli Stone suffered a ratings tumble in its second week and settled for second place 5.9/10.

08/02/2008