Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With ‘9-1-1’

Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, riding drama 9-1-1 to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 1.1 that CBS and NBC posted.

CBS, Fox and NBC won last week with a 1.2/5.

On Fox, The X-Files was down 11% to 0.8, while 9-1-1 did a flat 1.6.

NBC rated a 1.1/5, with The Blacklist down 10% at 0.9, before Law & Order: SVU was a flat 1.3, and Chicago P.D. at a level 1.2.

CBS was at 1.1/4, with Survivor posting a flat 1.7, followed a repeat of NCIS. Criminal Minds finished out prime at a flat 0.9.

ABC did a 0.9/4. A double run of comedy Speechless was off 25% at 0.9, and was followed by a Modern Family repeat. A new American Housewife was down 9% for a 1.0. Drama Designated Survivor was up a tenth of a point at 0.7.

Univision did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.

The CW rated a 0.3/1, as drama Riverdale scored a level 0.4 and Life Sentence was down a tenth of a point from its premiere at 0.2.

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.