Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With NBA Finals Game 3
ABC won big in Wednesday ratings, the NBA Finals leading to a 4.3 prime score in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 18 share. Fox and NBC tied for second at 0.9/4.
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night did a 2.6, as did NBA Countdown. The game, the Warriors defeating the Cavaliers to go up three games to nil, rated a 5.2, same as Game 2’s rating. Last year’s Game 3 did a 5.9.
On Fox, MasterChef dropped 10% to 0.9 from 8 to 10 p.m.
NBC had American Ninja Warrior at 1.1 from 8-10 p.m., then Reverie at 0.5. Both were down a tenth of a point from last week’s premieres.
CBS was at 0.5/2. Repeats led into Code Black, which slid 14% to 0.6.
Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.
The CW scored a 0.2/1, with a repeat of Supergirl leading into The Originals, off 33% at 0.2.
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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.