Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins NBA-less Monday

ABC won the Monday night primetime ratings race without a Celtic or a Laker.

The network, which has dominated primetime with the NBA finals, won every half-hour Monday night in the 18-49 demo with a 2.3 rating/7 share, according to Nielsen overnight numbers. That was on the strength of two hours worth of The Bachelorette and True Beauty.

Expect those numbers to double Tuesday night with Game 6 of the series, in which Boston leads Los Angeles 3-2.

CBS was seocnd on the night with a 1.9/6 in the demo for an all-repeat lineup of sitcoms and CSI: Miami. Fox was third with a 1.6/5 for new episodes of Lie to Me and Good Guys.

NBC was just behind with a 1.5/5, led by Last Comic Standing, which averaged a 2.1/6 at 9-10.

The CW averaged a .3/1 in the demo with repeats of 90210 and Gossip Girl.

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.