Fox's World Series tops Wednesday

Preliminary estimations for Game one of the World Series are murky because of time-zone variations, but Fox seems to possess won Wednesday both in demos and total audiences. ABC, brought by ''Modern Family,'' and CBS, by ''Criminal Minds,'' tied for demo honors one of the nets airing entertainment programming. Affiliated-based Nielsen preliminaries show the St. Louis Cardinals' 3-2 victory within the Texas Rangers calculating a 3.9 rating/10 be part of grown ups 18-49 and 12.9 million audiences overall on Fox's stations from 8 to 11 p.m. -- with one of these amounts likely to be modified a little within the excellent. Last year's opener between your Rangers and Bay Area Titans gained a 4.7/14 in 18-49 and 15 million audiences overall within the excellent, which year's Game 1 looks to become the cheapest-ranked within the demo since 2006, whenever a Saturday start created a 3.6 rating for that first game within the series between your Cardinals and Detroit Tigers. Fox is anticipated to win the evening within the same-day excellent, though both ABC and CBS could exceed it in demos once all same-week Digital recording device playback is incorporated. CBS also could pull ahead as a whole audiences. At CBS, ''Survivor'' (3.3/9 in 18-49, 11.a million audiences overall) required benefit of ''The X Factor's'' absence to edge up week to week, and ''Criminal Minds'' similarly acquired at 9 (3.9/10 in 18-49, 13.a million audiences overall), using the latter probably the most-viewed entertainment series around the evening. And also at 10, ''CSI'' (2.6/7 in 18-49, 10.six million audiences overall) was flat week to week but edged back in front of ABC rookie ''Revenge'' (2.5/7 in 18-49, 7.9 million audiences overall), that was lower a little. ABC continued to be solid within the night's opening hour with ''The Middle'' (2.9/9 in 18-49, 9. million audiences overall) and rookie ''Suburgatory'' (3.1/8 in 18-49, 8.8 million audiences overall), using the latter ongoing to look great because they build on its established lead-in in 18-49 rating. Within the 9 o'clock hour, ''Modern Family'' (5.6/14 in 18-49, 12.8 million audiences overall) and ''Happy Endings'' (3./7 in 18-49, 6.9 million audiences overall) both were lower using their above-average shipping of a week ago, and 10 p.m. ''Revenge'' dropped too but has tallied up a good average through five days. NBC saw the 3 of their original series hold steady week to week: ''Up All Night'' at 8 (2.1/6 in 18-49, 5.six million audiences overall), ''Harry's Law'' at 9 (1.2/3 in 18-49, 8.two million audiences overall) and ''Law and Order: SVU'' at 10 (2.1/5 in 18-49, 7.six million audiences overall). At 8:30 p.m., a unique repeat of ''Whitney'' did single.2/3 in 18-49 and 4.a million audiences overall, that is still a smidge much better than the ultimate episode of ''Free Agents'' to air within the slot. At CW, a ''Ringer'' repeat (.4/one in 18-49, 1.two million audiences overall) was then ''America's Next Top Model'' (.8/2 in 18-49, 1.9 million audiences overall), that was flat week to week. Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: Fox, 3.9/10 ABC and CBS, 3.3/9 NBC, 1.7/4 Univision, 1.5/5 CW, .6/2. As a whole audiences: Fox, 12.9 million CBS, 11.six million ABC, 8.9 million NBC, 6.9 million Univision, 3.5 million CW, 1.six million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com