Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Game Three of NBA Finals
ABC won big in Wednesday prime ratings, the NBA finals leading the network to a 3.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 15 share.
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night got a 1.9 on ABC and NBA Countdown a 2.0. They did a 1.9 and 2.3, respectively, Sunday night before game two. Game three, Raptors versus Warriors, got a 3.7, down a tenth of a point from game two.
Everyone else was playing for scraps. NBC did a 0.7/4, Fox a 0.6/3 and CBS a 0.5/3.
NBC had American Ninja Warrior at 0.9 and The InBetween at 0.5, both down a tenth of a point from last week, when they premiered.
On Fox, MasterChef got a 0.7 and Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back a 0.6. Both lost a tenth of a point.
On CBS, The Amazing Race got a 0.8 and NCIS: The Cases They Can’t Forget a 0.4, both shows flat. A SWAT repeat followed.
Telemundo did a 0.5/2, with Betty En NY at 0.5 and La Reina del Sur at 0.6.
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Univision got a 0.3/1.
The CW did a 0.2/1 with My Last Days at 0.1 and Jane the Virgin at 0.2. My Last Days was down a tenth and Jane was 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.