Obama News Conference Racks Up Big Numbers

Super Bowl now a distant memory, it's back to watching CBS and Fox claw at the weekly ratings crown. CBS has the Grammys; CBS has the most viewers.

Here's a look at the week's platinum and tin:

Winners

· Obamavision. Nearly 50 million people tuned in to see President Obama's first news conference, at 8 p.m. Monday on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Univision, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. That will surely be at least 20 million more people than tune in to this month's Academy Awards.

· "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." Renewed for a second season because, as Cartoon Network says, it's huge with boys. Boys are the Holy Grail of kids' programming because there's no age too young to start discriminating against chicks in the TV industry.

· Grammys. Because music critics didn't get to vote for how this year's Grammy Awards show was produced, it remains hostless, nearly trophy-less (only 10 actually dispensed) and jammed with odd talent hookups, and bags 20 million fans -- a jump of nearly 3 million compared with last year's second-worst-ever franchise showing.

· "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." Since returning to ABC Family, "American Teenager" is attracting 42 percent more fans in the Monday 8 p.m. time slot than CW's fawned-over "Gossip Girl" (3.8 million vs. 2.5 million) and 67 percent more of the 12-to-34-year-olds coveted by both shows. ABC Family orders a second season of 24 episodes.

· "Private Practice." ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff posts a series best in key age brackets and a second-best-ever among all viewers (13 million) in its new post-"Grey's Anatomy" time slot -- with a "Grey's" pseudo-crossover episode. In other "Grey's" news, cast member James Pickens Jr. says Izzie and George (Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight) are on their way out the door and our long nightmare is nearly over.