Primetime Ratings Thursday: Football Down on Fox
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ opens on ABC
Fox won the Thursday ratings battle, with Thursday Night Football pacing the network to the win. Fox got a 2.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 12 share. In a distant second was ABC at 1.2/7.
Colts-Titans took up all of Fox prime. It was down 13% from Packers-Niners the week before.
ABC had the season premieres of Station 19 at 1.1 and Grey’s Anatomy at 1.3 across two hours.
CBS got a 0.5/3 and NBC a 0.4/2. CBS had Young Sheldon up 14% to 0.8 and B Positive down 17% to 0.5. Mom got a flat 0.6 and the season premiere of The Unicorn a 0.4. Star Trek: Discovery posted a 0.3.
On NBC it was Superstore at a level 0.5 and a Superstore rerun. The Law & Order: SVU season starter got a 0.6 and led into a Paley Center special on Law & Order: SVU at 0.3.
Univision also got a 0.4/2. Vencer El Desamor fell 20% from the day before to 0.4 and Imperio de Mentiras and Dulce Ambicion both notched flat 0.3s.
Telemundo weighed in at 0.3/2. El Domo del Dinero got a 0.2 and Todo Por Mi Hija a 0.4. Falsa Identidad got a 0.2. All three were flat.
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The CW posted a 0.2/1. Supernatural scored a 0.3 and The Outpost a 0.1, the pair level with last week.
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.