Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With John Bolton Interview
Soft night for ratings; John Legend special doesn’t do much on ABC
ABC had the top score in Sunday prime, with a John Bolton interview pacing the net to a 0.5 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 3 share. CBS and NBC were runners-up at 0.3/2.
It wasn’t much of a night for broadcast ratings, the networks airing lots of reruns.
ABC had a Celebrity Family Feud rerun and a John Legend special, A Bigger Love Father’s Day, got a 0.4. The Room Where It Happened, which saw Martha Raddatz interview former national security advisor Bolton about his book about working in the White House, did a 0.7. A Match Game rerun followed.
CBS had 60 Minutes down 14% to 0.6 and two-hour special United We Sing at 0.3 and 0.2. An NCIS: New Orleans repeat followed.
NBC had Hollywood Game Night up 50% to 0.3 and The Titan Games and America’s Got Talent reruns.
Univision scored a 0.2/2. Aqui y Ahora and Sal y Pimienta both were down a tenth at 0.2, with movie Transporter 3 in the middle.
Fox got a 0.2/1 with comedy reruns.
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Telemundo posted a 0.1/1. It had movies 47 Ronin and The Code.
The CW did a 0.1/0 with repeats.
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.