Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘AGT’ Premiere
NBC was the big winner in Monday ratings, summer staple America’s Got Talent leading the net to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. In second was ABC at 0.8/4.
America’s Got Talent, featuring a couple new judges, scored a 1.7 from 8 to 10 p.m. Last summer’s season premiere did a 2.4. The premiere of competition series Songland got a 1.2.
ABC had the 1994 film The Lion King at 0.9 and the finale of docuseries 1969 skyrocketed 50% to 0.6.
Fox got a 0.7/3 and CBS did a 0.6/3.
On Fox, MasterChef Junior slid 13% to a 0.7 from 8 to 10.
On CBS, a couple NCIS reruns led into Blood & Treasure, off 17% from premiere at 0.5.
Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.4/2.
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The CW got a 0.2/1. A Flash repeat led into The 100 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.