Primetime Ratings: Noisy ‘Talent’ Paces NBC
NBC won Tuesday prime ratings by a country mile, riding America’s Got Talent to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49 on the night, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. In a distant second was Telemundo at 0.5/3.
America’s Got Talent went up 7% to 1.6 from 8 to 10 p.m. and Bring the Funny lost 10% for a 0.9. Former NBA superstar Dwyane Wade was guest host on AGT.
Telemundo had Betty en NY at its usual 0.5 and La Reina del Sur at its usual 0.7.
ABC got a 0.4/2 and CBS a 0.3/2. ABC showed repeated comedies and CBS had Love Island down 20% at 0.4, an NCIS repeat and Blood & Treasure at a level 0.3.
Univision was also at 0.3/2. La Reina Soy Yo and La Rosa de Guadalupe both did a 0.4.
Fox got a 0.3/1. The special USA Champions: The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup scored a 0.3 and led into a 9-1-1 rerun.
The CW did a 0.1/1. Pandora weighed in at 0.1 and The 100 at 0.2, both shows flat.
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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.