Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins on Soft Night
ABC was the top broadcaster on a Thursday heavy on repeats. It had game show repeats on throughout prime, and rated a 0.9/4, best of the bunch. The shows included Celebrity Family Feud, To Tell the Truth and $100,000 Pyramid.
CBS and NBC were at 0.7/3. CBS had comedy repeats leading into a Scorpion rerun.
NBC had two hours of The Wall repeats, then a Law & Order: SVU rerun.
Fox was at 0.4/2. It had U.S. Open golf at 0.4 8-9 p.m., then a Love Connection repeat.
The CW had two Supernatural repeats for a 0.2/1.
Among Spanish-language networks, Univision did a 0.6/3 while Telemundo was at 0.4/2.
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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.