Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With All-Star Slugfest
Fox grabbed top honors in Tuesday ratings, as the MLB All-Star game led to a 2.1 in viewers 18-49 for Fox, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. That beat the 1.8/8 that NBC put up.
The All-Star Game took up all of Fox’s prime. It was down a tenth from last year’s All-Star Game. The American League won in extra innings, same as it did last year. The teams combined for ten home runs.
On NBC, America’s Got Talent ticked up 5% to 2.1 from 8 to 10 p.m. and World of Dance did a flat 1.3.
Telemundo was next at 0.6/3. Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso and El Senor de los Cielos both did a 0.6.
CBS rated a 0.5/2 with repeated dramas.
ABC was at 0.4/2. Repeated comedies led into The Last Defense, which slipped 20% to 0.4.
Univision too did a 0.4/2.
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The CW was at 0.2/1. The 100 and The Outpost both scored a 0.2. The former was down a tenth and the latter was 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.