Primetime Ratings: ‘AGT’ Grows on NBC
NBC took top broadcast honors Tuesday with a 2.0 rating in adults 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, alongside an 8 share. NBC had Olympic swimming trials at 1.3, before America’s Got Talent grew 4% to 2.4.
Next up was ABC at 0.9/4 and CBS at 0.9/3, then Fox at 0.7/3 and The CW at 0.3/1.
ABC had repeated comedies before a new Uncle Buck at 1.1, up a tenth of a point, and To Tell the Truth at a flat 1.0.
CBS had a repeated NCIS before the summer premiere of Zoo at 0.9 across two hours. Zoo, based on the James Patterson novel, opened to a 1.2 last summer.
On Fox, Hotel Hell rated a 0.9, up a tenth, and Coupled did a flat 0.5.
The CW had a repeated The Flash and then a new Containment at a flat 0.3.
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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.