Primetime Ratings Tuesday: Fox on Top With Cowboys-Ravens
Dramas drop on CBS
Fox won Tuesday prime ratings easily thanks to football. The Cowboys-Ravens contest led Fox to a 2.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In a distant second was ABC at 0.9/5.
Fox had Cowboys versus Ravens across its prime.
ABC had two hours of The Bachelorette at 1.2 and 1.1, same as last week, and Big Sky down 29% for a 0.5.
CBS got a 0.6/3 and NBC a 0.5/3. CBS had NCIS down 22% to 0.7 and FBI off 25% to 0.6, then FBI: Most Wanted down 17% to 0.5.
On NBC it was The Voice at a flat 0.7 and the two-hour Transplant finale at a level 0.4.
Univision scored a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. Univision had Vencer El Desamor and Imperio de Mentiras at 0.4, Vencer down a tenth and Imperio up a tenth. Dulce Ambicion got a flat 0.3.
On Telemundo it was El Domo del Dinero at 0.2 and Todo Por Mi Hija at 0.4, the pair flat. Falsa Identidad went up 50% to a 0.3.
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The CW scored a 0.1/0, with Swamp Thing and Tell Me a Story both at a level 0.1.
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.