Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Hoops

CBS won Thursday’s prime ratings, March Madness Sweet 16 games leading to a 1.6 in viewers 18-49, and a 7 share. That beat the 1.0/5 that ABC posted.

NBC did a 0.6/3 and Univision a 0.5/2.

Telemundo did a 0.4/2 and both The CW and Fox a 0.3/1.

CBS had the NCAA basketball championship on throughout prime.

ABC had Grey’s Anatomy at 1.5 and Station 19 at 1.0, before For the People did a 0.6. All three were up a tenth from last week.

On NBC, Superstore fell 11% to 0.8 and AP Bio was a flat 0.5. Will & Grace got a level 0.7 and the premiere of comedy Abby’s a 0.5. A Law & Order: SVU rerun closed out prime.

Jesus and Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia both got a 0.5 on Univision.

The CW had a Supernatural repeat before the Legacies finale got a flat 0.3.

Fox had repeats of Gotham and The Orville

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.