Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With ‘Masked Singer’ Premiere
Season starter down considerably from a year ago
Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, with the new season of The Masked Singer giving Fox the easy win. Fox got a 1.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 8 share. NBC was in second at 0.8/5.
The Masked Singer scored a 1.4 and the premiere of I Can See Your Voice at 1.1. The previous Masked Singer season starter came after the Super Bowl. The season before that, debuting a year ago, had a 2.5 opener.
NBC had the season finale of America’s Got Talent across primetime up 33% for a 0.8. Spoken-word poet Brandon Leake won.
CBS was next at 0.7/4. Big Brother shot up 22% to 1.1 and Love Island grew 50% from its previous episode for a 0.6. 48 Hours Suspicion went up a tenth for a 0.4.
ABC and Univision both rated a 0.4/2. ABC had the movie Guardians of the Galaxy.
On Univision it was Medicos and Imperio de Mentiras at flat 0.4s. Dulce Ambicion got a level 0.3.
Telemundo scored a 0.3/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos and Todo Por Mi Hija both got a flat 0.3 and Falsa Identidad slid 33% to 0.2.
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The CW put up a 0.1/1. The 100 got a 0.1, as did the Coroner finale.
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.