Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Baseball All-Star Game
Fox won the Tuesday ratings battle, the MLB All-Star Game setting the pace for the network’s 1.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. That beat NBC’s 1.4/7.
The All-Star Game, won 4-3 by the American League, took up all of Fox’s prime.
Last year’s game, also an American League win, got a 2.1.
NBC had America’s Got Talent up 27% from 8 to 10 p.m. for a 1.4, and the premiere of Bring the Funny at 1.2.
Telemundo did a 0.5/2. Betty En NY got a 0.5 and La Reina del Sur a 0.6.
ABC and CBS both rated a 0.4/2. ABC had repeated comedies.
On CBS, the premiere of Love Island got a 0.6 from 8 to 9:30. A Big Bang Theory repeat followed, then Blood & Treasure was down a tenth at 0.3.
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Univision did a 0.3/2 and The CW a 0.2/1. A Flash repeat led into The 100 at a level 0.2 on CW.
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.