Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With ‘Brother’

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CBS was top of the broadcast standings Thursday, with Big Brother at a 1.7 rating in viewers 18-49, down 11%. Repeats led into Big Brother, and Republican National Convention coverage led out; CBS did a 0.7 in the latter to give the net a 1.2 rating and 5 share for the night, per Nielsen’s overnight ratings.

Next up was NBC at 1.0/4. The season finale of Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge did a flat 0.9 while NBC’s RNC coverage scored a 1.1.

ABC scored a 0.7/3. Battlebots and Greatest Hits both slipped 22% to 0.7, before ABC’s political coverage rated a 0.7.

Fox had a 0.6/3, with the Bones season finale at a flat 0.8 and Home Free down a tenth at 0.4.

CW aired a repeat of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, then a new Beauty and the Beast at a flat 0.2.

Michael Malone
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.