This chart lists the five highest-rated television programs on various networks and the number of people who watched them, for the time period shown. The data comes from Nielsen Marketing Research’s people meters.

Professionals:August 22 – August 28, 1994

CBC Full

CBC Prime Time News 156,000

Commonwealth Games 135,000

CBC Prime Time News 117,000

Commonwealth Games 117,000

Commonwealth Games 109,000

CTV

CTV Monday Movie 179,000

NYPD Blue 178,000

Hot Country Jam 129,000

CTV News 120,000

Roseanne 108,000

Global

60 Minutes 110,000

Frasier 99,000

Seinfeld 84,000

Married With Children 71,000

Grace Under Fire 66,000

Radio-Canada

Le Telejournal 120,000

Le Dimanche SP 107,000

Le Point 85,000

Mr. Bean 83,000

Des Jardins Auj. 73,000

TVA

TVA Edition 18H00 57,000

Lassie 56,000

Cinema du Dimanche 55,000

Heritiers du Reve 52,000

Claire Lamarche 52,000

ONT

BBS Friday Movie 84,000

NYPD Blue/CFPL Movie 61,000

News SA/SU 6 P.M. 44,000

Home Improvement 41,000

CTV News/CFPL News 41,000