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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., June 5 ) -- America's Got Talent outpoints Boston's baking of Heat

By ED BARK
@unclebarkycom
NBC's Tuesday edition of America's Got Talent ranked as D-FW's most-watched prime-time attraction while Boston's gritty win over Miami also scored with viewers.

Talent drew 338,705 viewers in the 7 p.m. hour, with ESPN's pulsating Game 5 of the Western Conference finals pulling in second with 237,094 viewers. The two competitions also ranked one-two in prime-time among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds.

Fox's 7 p.m. hour of Hell's Kitchen ran third for the night in total viewers with 189,675. The Texas Rangers late-starting win at Oakland, shown on Fox Sports Southwest, had a respectable 182,901 total viewers, matching the 8 p.m. haul for CBS' 8 p.m. repeat of NCIS: Los Angeles. But the Rangers impressively nipped Kitchen for third place in the 18-to-49 demographic.

ABC's two-hour concert for Queen Elizabeth averaged 135,482 total viewers from 8 to 10 p.m., good enough to whip NBC's competing two-hour Season 2 launch of Love In the Wild (94,837 viewers). Wild outdrew all the the Queen's men -- and women -- among 18-to-49-year-olds.

In the barely noticed division, The CW's 7 p.m. premiere of the reality series Catalina had a sub-smallish 20,322 total viewers, with just 6,405 of them in the 18-to-49 realm.

Tuesday's local news derby results went like this: CBS11 rang the bell twice at 10 p.m. with wins in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.

Fox4 likewise swept the 6 a.m. competitions, but by very small margins over NBC5 in total viewers and the Peacock and WFAA8 among 25-to-54-year-olds.

WFAA8 ran first at 6 p.m. in total viewers but Fox4 nipped the ABC station in the 25-to-54 demo.

At 5 p.m., WFAA8 won in total viewers and tied for first with Fox4 among 25-to-54-year-olds.