Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Mighty ‘World of Dance’
NBC won the Wednesday ratings race with a strong showing from World of Dance, the network posting a 1.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That beat the 1.0/5 put up by Fox.
America’s Got Talent scored a flat 1.5 and World of Dance went up 9% to 1.2 from 9 to 11 p.m.
On Fox, MasterChef was good for a 1.0 from 8 to 10 p.m., up 11% from last week.
CBS did a 0.8/4, as Big Brother scored a flat 1.6. Repeats of SEAL Team and Criminal Minds followed.
ABC was at 0.6/3. Repeated comedies led into The Story of the Royals at 0.6.
Telemundo did a 0.5/2 and Univision a 0.4/2, both level with last week.
The CW was at 0.1/1. Burden of Truth did a flat 0.2 and was followed by a Supergirl repeat.
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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.