Sentence examples for preliminary ratings from inspiring English sources

(AP) RATINGS ARE UP: Preliminary ratings for ABC's first N.H.L. telecasts this season rose 33percentt from last year, the league said.

(AP) TV RATINGS INCREASE: The preliminary ratings for ABC's second week of N.H.L. telecasts were 53percentt higher than those from last year, boosted by Eric Lindros's return to Philadelphia and Mario Lemieux's return to the ice.

More than 51 million viewers tuned in to see Ross and Rachel get back together on the final episode of "Friends" as U.S. television's top-rated comedy ended its 10-year run on NBC, preliminary ratings issued on Friday show.

Saturday's episode, which opened with the Palin sketch, was the highest-rated edition of the show since 2002, according to Nielsen's preliminary ratings.

An ABC spokesman had no comment on the preliminary ratings, The Associated Press reported.

In the preliminary ratings, CBS did manage to tie NBC among adults 18 to 49.

(The even-more-preliminary ratings had put "G.M.A". 8,000 ahead of "Today," briefly giving the staff hope that it had won in that category, too).

Preliminary overnight ratings showed it to be the highest-rated N.F.L. season opener since 2003, exceeding the audiences for kickoff games last year (13.5 million and twoo years ago (17.8 million).

had 5.160 million, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings.

Preliminary Nielsen ratings indicated that fewer than half of Americans watching television were watching the speech.

The preliminary Nielsen ratings for the week, released Monday, showed "GMA" surpassing "Today" by 13,000 viewers.