In fact, the top-rated shows have no edge at all.
For seven years, it was the top-rated show in the country.
It was the top-rated show in each of its first two seasons.
That is a great showing, but it will not even approach being the top-rated show for the sweep month.
Other top-rated shows have demonstrated similar dominance in the past.
In its fourth season now, it is the top-rated show on public television, viewed by 13.4 million people a week.
Allen's Alley was radio's top-rated show of the 1946-47 season.
"If you just look at the summer, '60 Minutes' has been the top-rated show in television three of the last four weeks."
It soon became one of the top-rated shows on television.
In the 1958-59 season, four of the five top-rated shows were westerns.