Primetime Ratings Tuesday: NBC on Top With 'This Is Us' Finale
'The Voice' way up on NBC
NBC won the Tuesday ratings battle, with the This Is Us finale setting a hot pace. NBC scored a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That just beat CBS at 0.6/4.
NBC had two hours of The Voice at 0.7 and 0.8, up 50%. This Is Us got a flat 0.8.
CBS had the season finales for NCIS at 0.7, FBI at 0.6 and FBI: Most Wanted at 0.5. NCIS and FBI: Most Wanted stayed level and FBI lost a tenth.
ABC scored a 0.5/3. Special Mike Tyson: The Knockout did a 0.5 and 0.6 across two hours. Special After Floyd: The Year That Shook the World scored a 0.3.
Univision did a 0.4/3 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. Univision had Diseñando Tu Amor at flat 0.4. The Te Acuerdas de Mí finale got a 0.5 and La Hija Del Embajador a 0.4, both up a tenth.
On Telemundo it was Exatlón Estados Unidos at a flat 0.2 and La Suerte de Loli up 50% to 0.3. The premiere of Café Con Aroma de Mujer got a 0.4.
Fox posted a 0.2/2. The Game of Talents finale lost 67% without its Masked Singer lead-in for a 0.2 and the season starter for Rob Lowe-hosted Mental Samurai got a 0.2.
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The CW earned a 0.2/1. The Flash lost a tenth for a 0.1 and Superman & Lois gained a tenth for a 0.2.
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.