Primetime Ratings: Big Drop For Country Music Awards on CBS

CBS won Sunday’s ratings race, the Academy of Country Music Awards leading the network to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. In second was ABC at 0.9/4.

60 Minutes did a 0.9 on CBS, way down from last week’s March Madness-fueled 3.0, and the 54th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards rated a 1.6, down 24% from last year.

ABC had America’s Funniest Home Videos down 11% to 0.8 and two hours of American Idol off 17% at 1.0, then Shark Tank at a level 0.8.

Fox and NBC both got a 0.6/3. Fox had comedy reruns before The Simpsons at 0.7 and Bob’s Burgers at 0.8, both down a tenth of a point, then Family Guy repeats.

On NBC, it was an Ellen’s Game of Games repeat before World of Dance at a flat 0.7 from 8 to 10 p.m. Good Girls went up 20% for a 0.6.

Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2.

The CW did a 0.1/1 with reruns. 

Michael Malone

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.