Primetime Ratings Wednesday: ‘Singer’ Dips But Fox Still On Top
‘CMA Awards’ down 45% on ABC
Fox had the winning score in Wednesday prime, thanks to The Masked Singer, beating ABC and the CMA Awards. Fox had a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. ABC posted a 1.1/6.
NBC was just off the pace at 1.0/6.
The Masked Singer slid 6% to 1.5 and I Can See Your Voice fell 18% to 0.9.
The 54th Annual CMA Awards, celebrating the best in country music, took up all of prime on ABC and scored a 1.1. Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker hosted from the Music City Center in Nashville. Last year’s CMA Awards got a 2.0.
NBC welcomed back its Chicago shows. Chicago Med got a 1.1, Chicago Fire a 1.0 and Chicago P.D. a 0.9.
CBS got a 0.5/3. The Amazing Race dropped 14% to 0.6 and the season starter for SWAT got a 0.4. A second hour of SWAT did the same.
Univision rated a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. Univision had Vencer El Desamor up 25% from the day before for a 0.5 and Imperio de Mentiras at a flat 0.4. Dulce Ambicion posted a flat 0.2.
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On Telemundo, El Domo del Dinero got a flat 0.2 and Todo Por Mi Hija went up 33% to 0.4. Falsa Identidad got a level 0.2.
The CW scored a 0.1/1. Devils and Coroner both rated their usual 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.