Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Crime Dramas
CBS won Tuesday prime ratings, with NCIS leading the network to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. In second was NBC at 0.7/3.
NCIS got a flat 1.3 and FBI went up 9% to 1.2. FBI: Most Wanted dropped 10% to 0.9.
NBC had reruns and a coronavirus news special at 10 p.m. Hosted by Today’s Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, it did a 0.6.
Fox and Univision got a 0.5/3 and ABC did a 0.5/2.
Fox had a Resident rerun and Empire dropped 14% to 0.6.
On Univision it was La Rosa de Guadalupe down 14% to 0.6 and Amor Eterno at a flat 0.6. Sin Miedo a la Verdad did a level 0.4.
On ABC it was comedy reruns and For Life at a flat 0.6.
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Telemundo posted a 0.4/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos, La Dona and Operacion Pacifico all got a 0.4. Exatlon lost a tenth, La Dona was flat and Operacion gained a tenth.
The CW posted a 0.1/0 with reruns of The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
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.