Primetime Ratings: ‘Masked Singer’ Leads Fox
The premiere of The Masked Singer led Fox to a big win in Wednesday prime. Fox got a 2.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 12 share. CBS was next at 1.2/6.
The Masked Singer ran across prime on Fox. The show opened at 2.9 last winter.
On CBS, the season premiere of Survivor did a 1.3 from 8 to 9:30, down 19% from last fall’s opener. The Big Brother finale went up 20% to 1.2.
NBC got a 1.1/5 and ABC a 0.8/4.
NBC had its Chicago shows with their season premieres. Chicago Med got a 1.0, Chicago Fire a 1.1 and Chicago P.D. a 1.1. The trio did 1.2s when they opened last fall.
On ABC, The Goldbergs got a 1.0, down 29% from last year’s premiere, and the Schooled premiere was down 39% at 0.8. Modern Family fell 38% from last year’s debut to 1.0 and Single Parents went down 46% to 0.7. The series premiere of Stumptown rated a 0.7.
Univision did a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2.
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Univision had La Rosa de Guadalupe at a flat 0.4 and La Usurpadora down a tenth at 0.5. Sin Miedo a la Verdad got a level 0.4.
On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso both did a flat 0.4. Preso No. 1 was also flat at 0.3.
The CW scored a 0.2/1. A rerun led into Hypnotize Me at a level 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.