Primetime Ratings: ABC Scores with 'The Bachelorette'

ABC won all but one half-hour in the Nielsen overnight primetime ratings on its way to a Monday win in the 18-49 demo with a 2.3 rating/7 share average.

ABC scored with The Bachelorette, which won each of its four half-hours and built from a 2.2/8 at 8-8:30 to a 2.9/8 at 9:30-10 against original programing on NBC (Last Comic Standing) and Fox (Lie To Me/The Good Guys), and
repeats on CBS.

The second half of CBS' repeat of CSI: Miami was the only half-hour ABC did not win, with its True Beauty getting edged out by a tenth of a rating point. Thanks to strong showings from its repeats of Two and a Half Men (2.6/8 at 9-9:30), and Big Bang Theory (2.7/ at 9:30-10), CBS was second on the night with a 2.0/6 in the demo.

NBC was next with a 1.8/5, followed by Fox with a 1.6/5 and The CW with a .3/1 for repeats of One Tree Hill and
Gossip Girl.

ABC won Sunday night with its coverage of Game 2 of the NBA finals and will almost certainly make it three nights in a row with its coverage of Game 3 Tuesday night, with the Lakers and Celtics tied at one game apiece.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.