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Big Sweeps Week For ABC

It was a big week for ABC in the ratings game as the network won a close race for tops in prime time -- and watched its evening newscast win by its widest margin in six years. Season finales for "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy" helped the Alphabet Network to its first weekly win of the season, with the exception of the one when it broadcast the Academy Awards. ABC hasn't won during the May sweeps since 2000. The success sent Fox into third place last week, with "American Idol" losing audience, albeit not so much among the coveted 18-to-49-year-old audience. CBS came in second, bolstered by two prime-time specials featuring Bob Barker; each brought in 14 million viewers, according to Nielsen. And Charles Gibson is bringing in some good numbers for the news division, with "World News" winning the week by nearly one million viewers.

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