Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With ‘Masked Singer’ Unmasking
Fox snagged the Wednesday ratings title, as the season finale of The Masked Singer paced the net to a 2.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 10 share. In second was CBS, with the Survivor finale, at 1.1/6.
ABC did a 0.8/4 and NBC a 0.7/3.
The Masked Singer took up all of Fox’s prime. Wayne Brady got the win. Its rating was a tenth better than last week’s 1.9.
On Survivor, Tommy Sheehan won the million bucks. The two-hour finale did a 1.2, level with last week, before the reunion got a 1.0. Last spring, the finale got a 1.5 and the reunion a 0.9. The December 18 reunion was not live, as it had been in other seasons.
On ABC, 90 minutes of Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times got a 1.0. Reruns followed. Last spring, live All in the Family and The Jeffersons scored a 1.7.
NBC had repeats of Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways.
Univision rated a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1. On Univision, Ringo did a flat 0.5 and it was 0.4s for La Rosa de Guadalupe and El Dragon. La Rosa lost a tenth and El Dragon was flat.
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On Telemundo, El Sultan and Decisiones did 0.2s before El Senor de los Cielos got a 0.4. All three were flat.
The CW had a 0.2/1. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer did a 0.2 and Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic2019 scored a 0.1.
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.