Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘AGT: The Champions’
NBC got top score in Monday’s prime ratings, with the mid-season America’s Got Talent paving the way to a 1.6 rating in viewers 18-49, and a 6 share. That squeaked by the 1.5/5 posted by ABC.
America’s Got Talent: The Champions, featuring stars from past seasons of America’s Got Talent and the Got Talent shows around the globe, rated a 1.8 from 8 to 10 p.m. Drama Manifest scored a 1.1, level with its rating when it last had a fresh episode in late November.
On ABC, the premiere of The Bachelor took up all of the network’s prime. Sibling Bachelor in Paradise started with a 1.1 in August.
CBS did a 0.7/2 with repeats.
The networks were up against the college football national championship on ESPN.
Univision got a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/1.
Fox had a 0.4/1 too, with repeats of The Resident and 9-1-1.
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The CW did a 0.2/1 with repeats of The Flash and Arrow.
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.