Primetime Ratings: Fox, NBC Split Tuesday Win
Fox and NBC both rated a 1.0 in viewers 18-49 Tuesday, per the Nielsen overnights, and had a 5 share. The Masked Singer was robust on Fox, while the holiday special Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways performed on NBC.
Trailing those two was ABC at 0.6/3.
The Masked Singer lost 11% for a 1.6 and the finale of The Moodys went up 67% from the night before for a 0.5.
Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways, with Ellen DeGeneres and pals giving away gifts to surprised people, got a 1.2. The show continues Wednesday. The Voice shot up 20% to 1.2 and Making It was a flat 0.5.
ABC had comedies, including The Conners at 1.0 and Bless This Mess at 0.6, both down a tenth. Mixed-ish slid 17% to 0.5 and Black-ish grew 20% to 0.6, before Emergence posted a level 0.5.
CBS got a 0.5/3 with repeated dramas.
The CW did a 0.4/2. The Flash climbed up 20% to 0.6 and Crisis Aftermath Part 2 a 0.2, same as Part 1.
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Univision scored a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. On Univision it was Ringo, La Rosa de Guadalupe and El Dragon all at 0.4. Ringo lost a tenth and the other two were flat.
On Telemundo it was El Sultan and the premiere of Decisiones: Unos Ganan, Otros Pierden at 0.3 and El Senor de los Cielos at 0.4. El Sultan and El Senor were flat.
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.