Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Mighty ‘MasterChef’

Fox won the top spot in Wednesday ratings, with MasterChef leading to a 0.7 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That got by the 0.6/3s that both ABC and CBS posted.

It was not a strong night for broadcasters' ratings. 

MasterChef did a 0.8 and First Responders Live a 0.6, both a tenth of a point better than last week.

ABC had its game shows. Press Your Luck got a 0.7 and Card Sharks a 0.5, both down a tenth from their last airings, while Match Game scored a flat 0.6.

On CBS, Love Island did a 0.6 and Big Brother a 1.0, both level with last week. A SWAT repeat got CBS to the end of prime.

NBC and Telemundo both rated a 0.5/3. NBC had reruns of Ellen’s Game of Games and Songland, before The InBetween did a flat 0.4.

On Telemundo, Betty en NY rated a flat 0.5 and La Reina del Sur lost 14% for a 0.6.

Univision rated a 0.3/2.

The CW got a 0.2/1. A Penn & Teller repeat led into Jane the Virgin at a level 0.2. 

Michael Malone

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.