Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Vivacious ‘Voice’

NBC won the Monday ratings race, riding The Voice to the title. NBC had a 1.1 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat ABC and Fox, which both did a 0.9/4.

Monday’s prime shows were up against the March Madness final the week before. The Voice ticked up 8% to 1.3 from 8 to 10 p.m. and The Enemy Within fell off 14% to 0.6.

ABC had American Idol up 9% at 1.2 and The Fix at a level 0.5.

Fox had The Resident down 22% at 0.7 and 9-1-1 off 15% at 1.1.

CBS did a 0.7/3. It was The Neighborhood at 1.0 and Man With a Plan at 0.8, both comedies flat. The Code did a 0.6, down a tenth from the military legal drama premiere, and Bull was a flat 0.6.

Telemundo got a 0.5/2 with Betty En NY setting the pace at 0.6. Univision did a 0.4/2.

The CW rated a 0.2/1. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow got a flat 0.3 and Arrow fell a tenth to 0.2. 

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.