Dance As Ratings Titan: Who’d Have Thought?

“Nearly 28 million watched Wednesday’s hour-and-change finale of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ at the end of which the three-time Super Bowl champ was crowned best amateur ballroom dancer. That’s the show’s biggest audience ever. … ‘Dancing’ topped the combined audiences of CBS, NBC and Fox in the Wednesday hour by about 4 million viewers and delivered ABC’s biggest non-sports audience in the time period in nearly seven years.”