Primetime Ratings: NBC Thrives With ‘Talent’
NBC won the Tuesday ratings race by a mile, America’s Got Talent leading the net to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That doubled runner-up Fox at 0.7/4.
America’s Got Talent got a 1.6 from 8 to 10 p.m., down 6% from its premiere. It averaged around 9.7 million total viewers. Singing show Songland fell 17% from premiere to 1.0.
On Fox, it was the MasterChef Junior finale across prime, its 0.7 level with last week.
CBS got a 0.5/3. Repeated dramas led into Blood & Treasure at a flat 0.5.
Telemundo got a 0.5/2 with crime novela La Reina del Sur at a flat 0.7.
ABC was at 0.4/2 with repeated comedies throughout prime.
Univision did a 0.3/1.
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The CW got a 0.1/1 with repeats of The Flash and The 100.
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.