Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With 'ESPYs'
ABC took Wednesday ratings honors thanks to the ESPY awards, scoring a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, and a 6 share. That topped CBS’ 1.0/4.
The ESPYs took up the whole of prime. Last year’s ESPYs did a 1.6.
CBS saw Big Brother climb 6% to 1.9, before the premiere of drama Salvation did a 0.7.
Fox was at 0.8/3. MasterChef did a flat 1.0 and The F Word With Gordon Ramsay a flat 0.6.
NBC scored a 0.6/3. Little Big Shots: Forever Young scored a 0.9, down a tenth of a point from last week, while The Carmichael Show rated an even 0.7. A Carmichael rerun did a 0.5, and a This Is Us repeat finished up prime.
The CW rated a 0.2/1. An Arrow repeat led into The 15 Most Iconic Summer Blockbusters of All Time at 0.2.
Among Spanish-language networks, Telemundo did a 0.6/3 and Univision a 0.5/2.
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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.