Primetime Ratings: ABC, Fox Split Thursday Win
ABC and Fox shared the Thursday ratings title, both networks posting a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That squeaked by the 0.8/4 put forth by CBS.
ABC had Grey’s Anatomy at 1.4 and Station 19 at 0.8, both down a tenth of a point, then For the People was up a tenth at 0.6.
Fox aired the IHeartRadio Music Awards across its prime.
CBS had a mix of reruns and new stuff. A Big Bang Theory repeat led into Fam at 1.0, and a Young Sheldon repeat preceded another Fam at 0.8. Fam did a 0.9 last Thursday. A SWAT repeat closed out prime.
NBC did a 0.7/3 with a comedy block taking up much of prime. Superstore grew 25% to 1.0 and AP Bio went up 20% to 0.6. Brooklyn Nine-Nine shot up 17% to 0.7 and Will & Grace dropped 14% to 0.6. Law & Order: SVU slid 11% to 0.8.
The CW, Telemundo and Univision each got a 0.4/2.
Supernatural did a flat 0.4 on CW and Legacies grew 50% to 0.3.
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Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.