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Fox's World Series Coverage Cleans Up on Sunday Orlando Sentinel
Fox's coverage of World Series Game 4, the Yankees vs. the Phillies, raked in 22.8 million total viewers Sunday night, a 47% bump from the 2008 World Series, reports Hal Boedeker in the Orlando Sentinel.
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" started the night for ABC with 10.8 million total viewers, followed by "Desperate Housewives" with 13.8 million. Rounding out the night, "Brothers & Sisters" drew 9.4 million.
CBS's "60 Minutes" drew 12.3 million total viewers and "Amazing Race" pulled 11.1 million. "Three Rivers" only had 7.7 million viewers, but "Cold Case" bounced up with 8.6 million.
WIthout its Sunday Night Football game, NBC chose to show "Football Night in America" followed by the Nicolas Cage movie "National Treasure," and together they averaged 4.1 million viewers.
-- Allison J. Waldman



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