Primetime Ratings: Game Shows Pace ABC
ABC got first place in Wednesday prime ratings, its game shows leading to a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 0.6/3 that Fox and Univision tallied.
The shows were up against the Stanley Cup final game on NBC a week before.
ABC had Press Your Luck up 11% at 1.0, Card Sharks at a flat 0.9 and Match Game at a flat 0.8.
On Fox, it was MasterChef down 14% at 0.6 and First Responders Live up 20% at 0.6.
Pacing Univision were La Reina Soy Yo at 0.6 and La Rosa de Guadalupe at 0.6.
CBS, NBC and Telemundo all scored a 0.5/3.
CBS had The Amazing Race at a level 0.8 and NCIS: The Cases They Can’t Forget down a tenth at 0.3. A SWAT repeat got to the end of prime.
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On NBC, a pair of Ellen’s Game of Games repeats led into The InBetween down a tenth at 0.4.
Telemundo had Copa America soccer.
The CW did a 0.2/1. A Penn & Teller: Fool Us repeat led into Jane the Virgin at a level 0.2.
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.