Primetime Ratings: Fox, NBC Split Win as ‘Masked Singer’ Rocks
Fox and NBC split the win in Wednesday prime ratings, high-flying The Masked Singer leading Fox and the robust Chicago shows pacing NBC. Both networks did a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That beat the 0.8/4 posted by CBS.
Shows were up against the CMA Awards on ABC the Wednesday before.
The Masked Singer went up a noisy 19% to 1.9 and Almost Family got a flat 0.5.
On NBC, Chicago Med and Chicago Fire got 1.2s and Chicago P.D. did a 1.1. All three were up a tenth of a point.
CBS had Survivor up 9% to 1.2 and then SEAL Team up 17% to 0.7 and SWAT at a flat 0.5.
ABC got a 0.7/3. The Goldbergs got a 0.9 and Schooled a 0.7, then Modern Family a 0.9. Single Parents posted a 0.6, before Stumptown scored a 0.5. Everything on ABC was flat with two weeks ago.
Telemundo tallied a 0.5/2 and Univision a 0.4/2. Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos at a flat 0.5 and El Final Del Paraiso and El Senor de los Cielos both down a tenth at 0.4.
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Univision aired La Rosa de Guadalupe and Cuna de Lobos at 0.4, then El Dragon at 0.3. All three were down a tenth.
The CW rated a 0.2/1, with 0.2s for Riverdale and Nancy Drew. Riverdale lost 33% and Nancy was level with last week.
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.