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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., June 30) -- Talent, Dancing and Fox4 news win prime-time numbers games while NBC5 continues strong summer run in other news hours

By ED BARK
Dance, sing and zing go the ratings.

The first hour of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance won at 7 p.m. Wednesday in both total D-FW viewers and advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds. Asterisk: It stomped a batch of repeats on ABC, CBS and NBC.

The Peacock's America's Got Talent then took over as usual at 8 p.m., drawing the entire day's biggest crowd (237,521 viewers) while holding off the second hour of Dance among 18-to-49-year-olds.

The 9 p.m. hour went to Fox4's local newscast, which won handily in total viewers and nipped NBC's Law & Order: SVU repeat in the 18-to-49 demographic.

On Fox Sports Southwest, the Texas Rangers' Vladimir Guerrero-powered late night road win against the Angels again had a respectable score of 149,299 total viewers despite ending after midnight.

In local news derby results, NBC5 continued to make noise in all four competitions.

WFAA8 had a narrow edge over the Peacock in the 10 p.m. total viewer Nielsens, but NBC5 cruised with 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming on most stations.

A pair of 6 a.m. wins again went into the NBC5 scorebook. And at 5 p.m., the station won in total viewers and tied Fox4 for first place among 25-to-54-year-olds.

WFAA8 had the 6 p.m. win in total viewers, with NBC5 again the newscast of choice in the 25-to-54 demographic.
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