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ABC, CBS and NBC have all seen the median age of their primetime viewers go up this television season, the New York Post reports. Even the youth-obsessed WB, whose programming revolves around teen angst, has matured dramatically. Fox is the only network to see its median age fall slightly, to 40.7 years.
In the first three weeks of this season, NBC’s median age was 49.1, an increase of 2.4 years compared to the same period a year ago. ABC saw its median age rise 1.3 years to 46.3 years. Right now it leads among viewers 18 to 49. CBS experienced the smallest increase, with the median age rising to 51.8 years from 51.3.
The biggest jump came at the WB, which aged 3.4 years between seasons and now has a median age of 37.2 years.
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