Primetime Ratings: ‘Big Brother’ Premiere Paces CBS
Reality staple down a couple ticks from last summer’s opener
Big Brother gave CBS a big win in Wednesday prime ratings. CBS got a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That easily beat the 0.4/3s put up by Fox and Univision.
Tough As Nails got a flat 0.5 on CBS and the Big Brother starter a 1.0 from 9 to 11 p.m. Big Brother opened last summer at 1.2.
Fox had MasterChef reruns.
Univision had La Rosa de Guadalupe and Medicos at level 0.4s and Como Tu No Hay 2 at a flat 0.5.
ABC, NBC and Telemundo all notched 0.3/2s. ABC had comedy reruns before Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD was up a tenth at 0.3.
NBC had Chicago repeats.
On Telemundo it was Exatlon Estados Unidos and Cennet at 0.3s and Enemigo Intimo 2 at 0.2. All three were level with last week.
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The CW scored a 0.1/1. The 100 got a 0.1, as did the premiere of Coroner.
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.