Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Wednesday Music Shows

Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, as its music-themed shows led the network to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That topped the 1.2/5 put up by NBC.

Fox had Empire down 21% from its opener at 1.5 and Star down 20% at 1.2.

NBC aired Chicago Med and Chicago Fire at 1.3, then Chicago P.D. at 1.2. All three opened to 1.2s last week.

ABC did a 1.1/5. The Goldbergs was a 1.3 and American Housewife a 1.1, both down a tenth of a point from last week, then Modern Family fell 13% to 1.4 and Single Parents was off 15% at 1.1. A Million Little Things was down 27% from its opener at 0.8.

CBS rated a 1.0/4. Survivor was off a tenth at 1.5 before the SEAL Team premiere scored a 0.8, down 47% from last fall’s opener, and the Criminal Minds season starter did a 0.7, down 46% from last year’s premiere.

Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2.

The CW did a 0.1/1. The Burden of Truth finale did a flat 0.1 and was followed by a Supergirl repeat.

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.