Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins on Soft Night
ABC was the top broadcaster on a Thursday heavy on repeats. It had game show repeats on throughout prime, and rated a 0.9/4, best of the bunch. The shows included Celebrity Family Feud, To Tell the Truth and $100,000 Pyramid.
CBS and NBC were at 0.7/3. CBS had comedy repeats leading into a Scorpion rerun.
NBC had two hours of The Wall repeats, then a Law & Order: SVU rerun.
Fox was at 0.4/2. It had U.S. Open golf at 0.4 8-9 p.m., then a Love Connection repeat.
The CW had two Supernatural repeats for a 0.2/1.
Among Spanish-language networks, Univision did a 0.6/3 while Telemundo was at 0.4/2.
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Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.