Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Hearty ‘AGT’
NBC won the Tuesday ratings race, two hours of America’s Got Talent leading the network to a 1.9 rating in viewers 18-49, and an 8 share. That easily beat the 0.6/3 put up by Fox.
America’s Got Talent lost 5% for a 2.1 and World of Dance fell 7% to 1.4.
Fox had Beat Shazam at 0.7 and Love Connection at 0.5, both shows flat.
ABC was at 0.5/2. It had repeated comedies before The Last Defense at a flat 0.5.
CBS too did a 0.5/2. It aired repeated dramas, then 48 Hours: NCIS at a level 0.5.
Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.5/2 as well.
The CW did a 0.2/1. After a Flash repeat, The Hundred rated a flat 0.3.
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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.