ABC steps to Tues. victory with 'Dancing'

November 16, 2006 "Dancing With the Stars" and ABC came up big Tuesday, waltzing their way to the nightly win on the penultimate night of competition between Mario Lopez and Emmitt Smith. More than 26.8 million people tuned in to the penultimate episode of "Dancing" from 8-9:30 p.m. and scored a 7.5 rating and 20 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research. "Dancing," which had its hourlong finale Wednesday, was far and away the top show on television Tuesday, but CBS put up respectable numbers for "NCIS" (15.8 million, 4.1/11) from 8-9 p.m. That was not the case for NBC's "Friday Night Lights" (5.5 million, 2.3/6) or Fox's "Standoff" (4.6 million, 2.0/5).

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