Primetime Ratings: ‘Voice' Finale PowersNBC

NBC took the Tuesday prime ratings title by a mile, with The Voice finale helping the network to a 1.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That doubled the score of the runner-up, ABC at 0.9/4. 

After a Voice repeat, The Voice finale grew 18% week over week to a 2.0. Last night’s finale improved the show’s May closer by 5%. Its finale last December did a 2.5. 

ABC had Olaf’s Frozen Adventure at 1.0, Prep & Landing at 0.9 and two hours of The Year: 2017, hosted by Robin Roberts, at 0.8. 

CBS and Fox both posted a 0.5/2. CBS had A Home For the Holidays with Josh Groban at 0.6, then repeats of NCIS and Bull

Fox had repeats across prime. 

Telemundo and Univision both did a 0.4/2. 

The CW was at 0.2/1. The movie Big Game took up all of CW’s prime.

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.