Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins as NBA Finals Goes Way Up

ABC won big in Monday ratings, game five of the NBA finals pacing the net to a 4.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 20 share. In second were Fox and NBC, both at 0.6/3.

Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night got a 2.7 and NBA Countdown a 2.9 on ABC, before the game did a 5.2. Game four did a 4.3.

Golden State won Monday but Toronto leads the series 3-2. Game six happens June 13.

Fox had Beat Shazam and So You Think You Can Dance both at 0.6, both down a tenth of a point from last week.

NBC had two hours of an American Ninja Warrior rerun, and Dateline down a tenth at 0.6.

Telemundo did a 0.5/2, with Betty en NY at 0.5 and La Reina del Sur at 0.7, both up a tenth of a point.

CBS got a 0.4/2 with reruns.

Univision also scored a 0.4/2.

The CW did a 0.1/1 with repeats. 

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.