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Biden drew more viewers in otherwise quiet TV week

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 In an otherwise quiet week for television, President Joe Biden was the biggest star. An estimated 38.2 million people watched him deliver his first State of the Union speech last week , spread across several networks that carried it.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 In an otherwise quiet week for television, President Joe Biden was the biggest star.

An estimated 38.2 million people watched him , spread across several networks that carried it. Fox News Channel, where 7.2 million people watched, had the biggest single audience, the Nielsen company said.

Otherwise, no prime-time program exceeded 8 million live viewers. On a typical night, ABC's 鈥淲orld News Tonight鈥 with David Muir had a bigger audience than anything else on TV last week.

Among individual prime-time shows, 鈥60 Minutes鈥 finished on top for the second week in a row, Nielsen said.

CBS won the week in prime time with an average of 4.6 million viewers. ABC had 3.9 million, NBC had 3.2 million, Fox had 1.9 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 930,000.

Fox News Channel led the cable networks in prime time with an average of 3.51 million viewers. CNN had 1.81 million, MSNBC had 1.64 million, ESPN had 1.29 million and HGTV had 1.1 million.

ABC's 鈥淲orld News Tonight鈥 won the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.8 million viewers, NBC's 鈥淣ightly News鈥 had 7.3 million and the 鈥淐BS Evening News鈥 had 5.1 million.

For the week of Feb. 28-March 6, the 20 most-watched programs in prime time, their networks and viewerships:

1. 鈥60 Minutes,鈥 CBS, 7.99 million.

2. 鈥淪tate of the Union,鈥 Fox News, 7.21 million.

3. 鈥淭he Equalizer,鈥 CBS, 7.13 million.

4. 鈥淣CIS,鈥 CBS, 7.12 million.

5. 鈥淐hicago Med,鈥 NBC, 7.05 million.

6. 鈥淐hicago Fire,鈥 NBC, 6.89 million.

7. 鈥淪tate of the Union Preview,鈥 Fox News, 6.62 million.

8. 鈥淎merican Idol,鈥 ABC, 6.57 million.

9. 鈥淪tate of the Union Analysis" (10:10-10:32 p.m. Eastern), Fox News, 6.55 million.

10. 鈥淵oung Sheldon,鈥 CBS, 6.48 million.

11. 鈥淪tate of the Union,鈥 ABC, 6.3 million.

12. 鈥淪tate of the Union: Republican Response,鈥 Fox News, 5.98 million.

13. 鈥淎merica's Funniest Home Videos,鈥 ABC, 5.91 million.

14. 鈥淏lue Bloods,鈥 CBS, 5.9 million.

15. 鈥淐hicago PD,鈥 NBC, 5.81 million.

16. 鈥淭he Neighborhood,鈥 CBS, 5.7 million.

17. 鈥淕hosts,鈥 CBS, 5.52 million.

18. 鈥淏ob Hearts Abishola,鈥 CBS, 5.5 million.

19. 鈥淣CIS: Los Angeles,鈥 CBS, 5.45 million.

20. 鈥淪tate of the Union Analysis鈥 (10:46-11 p.m. Eastern), Fox News, 5.44 million.

David Bauder, The Associated Press