Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Sturdy ‘Survivor’

CBS got top spot in Wednesday’s ratings, Survivor leading the net to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. In second was Fox at 1.0/5.

Fox won the race the Wednesday before.

Survivor did its usual 1.5, the episode featuring two tribal councils and a veteran of a previous season voted out. The Amazing Race season premiere did a 1.2, down from its 1.6 premiere in January 2018. SEAL Team went up 17% to 0.7.

On Fox, Empire did a 1.1 and Star a 0.9, both dramas flat.

ABC did a 0.5/3 with comedy repeats before a new Whiskey Cavalier fell 17% to 0.5.

NBC rated a 0.5/3 with Chicago repeats.

Telemundo did a 0.5/2 with both Exatlon Estados Unidos and Betty En NY at 0.5.

Univision got a 0.3/2.

The CW scored a 0.2/1 with both Riverdale and Jane the Virgin at 0.2, Riverdale down a tenth and Jane flat. 

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.