Primetime Ratings: NBC Victorious With ‘Voice’ Finale

NBC got the top spot in Tuesday ratings, as the finale for The Voice led to a 1.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. Everyone else was playing for scraps on a night that was rampant with reruns. CBS was runner-up at 0.6/3.

A Voice recap show led into the finale, which ran 9 to 11 p.m. and grew 21% from last week to a 1.7.

Season 16 of The Voice starts on NBC February 25. John Legend joins the coaches.

CBS had reruns of NCIS, FBI and NCIS: New Orleans.

ABC did a 0.5/2 with comedy reruns 8-10 p.m., then a repeat of The Rookie.

Telemundo and Univision both did a 0.4/2.

Fox got a 0.3/2 with repeats of Lethal Weapon and The Gifted.

The CW was at 0.2/1 with Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown on 8 to 10 p.m. That special got a 0.3 last December.

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.