Primetime Ratings: Steelers-Browns Does Big Number on Fox
Fox won the Thursday prime ratings race, with Thursday Night Football leading the net to a 3.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In second was Univision at 1.1/5.
Fox had Steelers-Browns across prime. It was 22% better than Raiders-Chargers the week before.
Univision had the 20th Annual Latin Grammy Awards throughout prime, which did a 0.9 a year ago.
ABC got a 0.9/4 and CBS did a 0.7/3. On ABC, Grey’s Anatomy did a 1.3 and A Million Little Things scored a 0.8, both flat. How to Get Away With Murder went up 25% to 0.5.
On CBS, Young Sheldon ticked up 9% to 1.2 and The Unicorn slid 13% to 0.7. Mom also grew 13% for a 0.9 and Carol’s Second Act lost 14% for a 0.6. Evil rated a flat 0.5.
NBC did a 0.6/3. Superstore got a flat 0.7 and Perfect Harmony dropped 20% for a 0.4. The Good Place scored a level 0.6 and Will & Grace lost 20% at 0.4. Law & Order: SVU got a level 0.7.
Telemundo rated a 0.5/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos gained a tenth for a 0.6. El Final Del Paraiso got a 0.5 and El Senor de los Cielos a 0.4, those two flat.
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The CW got a 0.3/1. Supernatural and Legacies both did a 0.3. Supernatural was flat and Legacies gained a tenth.
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.