Primetime Ratings: ABC Takes Title With ‘Idol’

ABC won the Sunday ratings race, with American Idol pacing the Alphabets to a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.7/4 that CBS posted.

After an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, American Idol got a 1.0 from 8 to 10 p.m., down 17% from last week. The Rookie fell 13% to 0.7.

On CBS, 60 Minutes did a 0.9 and God Friended Me a 0.6, then NCIS: Los Angeles a 0.7. Those three were level with last week. NCIS: New Orleans fell 14% to 0.6.

Fox, NBC and Univision all got a 0.4/2.

Fox had repeats.

NBC had a rerun of Jesus Christ Superstar Live and a Dateline repeat.

Univision had Aqui y Ahora down 20% to 0.4 and three hours of Hijo de Dios at 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6.

Telemundo scored a 0.3/2 with movies.

The CW did a 0.1/1 with reruns of Batwoman and Supergirl

Michael Malone

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.