Primetime Ratings: Potent ‘Talent’ Drives NBC to Win

NBC grabbed the Tuesday ratings title, posting a 2.4 in viewers 18-49, and a 9 share. That easily beat CBS at 0.7/3.

America’s Got Talent, with the contestants offering their final performances of the season before the Wednesday finale, did a 2.9 for its highest rating in three years. The week before, airing at 9, it scored a 2.3. The Paley Center Salutes the Best of Will & Grace did a 1.2 for NBC.

Univision scored a 0.8/3 and Telemundo a 0.7/3.

On CBS, it was repeated dramas en route to 0.7/3.

ABC was at 0.6/2. It had repeated comedies, then Somewhere Between grew 33% to 0.4.

Fox did a 0.5/2. It too was in repeats.

The CW, also airing reruns, scored a 0.2/1.

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.