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On a night of big finales on NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX, it was the two-hour "Grey's Anatomy" season-ender that ruled. But once again, ABC's already cancelled "FlashForward" delivered low enough ratings to help CBS split the night.

ABC will try to boost its midweek schedule in the fall with cop and legal dramas and, only a few months after "Lost" departs, a supernatural series that also begins with a plane crash....

Very minor declines aside, "Dancing with the Stars" maintained its place as Monday's most watched program by a wide margin. CBS, however, was able to rule the night in the key demographic thanks to "Big Bang Theory" and "CSI: Miami."

"Dancing With the Stars" and series-high scores for sophomore drama "Castle" carried ABC to a rather easy primetime ratings victory Monday, a night when the top scripted programs on competing networks aired in repeats.

Switching letters. Kate Snow has a date with Dateline. The ABC News and Good Morning America Weekend co-anchor is leaving ABC for a job with NBC News.

Early indications are that an Academy Awards telecast where "The Hurt Locker" topped the popular "Avatar" for best picture was popular with viewers.

The move potentially leaves about three million cable customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut without access to the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday night.

Held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, Dugard is seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos aired on ABC Friday.

"We can see that our entire society is in the middle of a revolution -- a revolution in the ways that people get their news and information."

Toyota dealers in five southeast states have pulled their commercials off ABC TV local affiliates, complaining about the coverage of Toyota safety problems by ABC News and its chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross.

The ad agency representing the 173 dealers told ABC affiliates last week that the shift was due to "excessive stories on the Toyota issues." The dealers shifted their commercial time buys to non-ABC stations in the same markets, "as punishment for the reporting," according to an ABC station manager.