Primetime Ratings: ABC Rolls as Raptors Off Warriors
The Raptors won the NBA championship, and led ABC to the Thursday ratings title, game six giving the network a 4.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 20 share. That beat CBS, at 0.6/3, by a mile.
Fox did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.
NBC and Univision both rated a 0.3/2.
The CW did a 0.2/1.
On ABC, Jimmy Kimmel Live got a 2.6 and NBA Countdown a 3.2. The game itself, Raptors versus Warriors, rated a 4.9. Game five on June 10 saw Kimmel at 2.7 and Countdown at 2.9, then the game at 5.2.
CBS had comedy repeats and a new Life in Pieces at 0.6, then Elementary at 0.5, both flat.
Fox had the U.S. Open Golf Championship at 0.5.
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On Telemundo, Betty en NY did a 0.5 and La Reina del Sur a 0.6, both level.
NBC had comedy repeats, then the season finales for AP Bio and Abby’s, both at 0.3. Last time on, AP Bio did a 0.4 and Abby’s a 0.4 and 0.3 in a double run.
The CW had iZombie at 0.2 and In the Dark at 0.1, both shows flat.
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.