Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Robust ‘9-1-1’
Fox won a tight Wednesday ratings race, its 1.3 score in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights and alongside a 5 share, just topping the 1.2/5 that NBC tallied.
The X-Files lost 10% on Fox for a 0.9, then drama 9-1-1 rated a flat 1.6.
On NBC, The Blacklist did a flat 1.1 and Law & Order: SVU dropped 7% to 1.3, before Chicago P.D. slipped 14% to 1.2.
CBS was just off the pace at 1.1/4. The Amazing Race rated a flat 1.2 and SEAL Team, which saw the team ship off unexpectedly to Afghanistan, slipped 9% to 1.0. Criminal Minds closed out prime up 11% to 1.0.
ABC was at 0.8/3. It had repeated comedies before Match Game did a flat 0.7.
Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.
The CW scored a 0.3/1, with Riverdale at 0.5 and Dynasty at 0.2. Both dramas were level with last week.
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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.