Primetime Ratings Wednesday: World Series Stays Level on Fox

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Fox won the Wednesday ratings race easily, the World Series giving the network a big victory. Fox had a 1.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 11 share. In second was ABC at 0.7/4. 

Fox had Rays-Dodgers across prime as Tampa Bay evened the series. The rating stayed level with Game One. 

ABC had the premiere of The Goldbergs, with two episodes across the 8 p.m. hour at 0.8. It is season eight of that comedy. After comedy repeats, Whoopi Goldberg-narrated The Con shot up 67% to 0.5. 

CBS rated a 0.6/4. Big Brother got a 0.9 and The Amazing Race a 0.6, both down a tenth of a point. A SWAT rerun was on at 10. 

NBC and Telemundo both scored a 0.5/3. On NBC, The Wall went up 50% to 0.6 and two hours of American Ninja Warrior fell 33% to 0.4.

Telemundo had Premios Billboard De La Musica Latina 2 across primetime. The special got a 0.8 last year. 

Univision got a 0.4/2. Medicos and Imperio De Mentiras both notched a 0.4 and Dulce Ambicion a 0.3. Everything on Univision was up a tenth of a point. 

The CW got a 0.1/1. Devils and Coroner both rated a flat 0.1.

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.