Primetime Ratings: CBS, Fox Split Win
CBS and Fox shared the Thursday ratings title, both posting a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. CBS had Big Brother and unscripted repeats.
Big Brother went up 8% to 1.4 before and after repeats. Fox had reruns of MasterChef and Spin the Wheel.
Multiple NFL pre-season games aired in various markets on multiple networks, resulting in jacked up ratings in some spots.
ABC and NBC both scored a 0.8/4. On ABC, a Holey Moley rerun led into two hours of Reef Break at 0.9 and 0.6. Last week’s Reef Break scored a 0.4.
On NBC, it was repeats of The Wall, Hollywood Game Night and Law & Order: SVU.
Telemundo scored a 0.4/2 and Univision a 0.3/2. On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso both tallied a 0.4 while Preso No. 1 did a 0.3. Exatlon and El Final were flat and Preso lost a tenth.
On Univision, it was 0.3s for La Reina Soy Yo, Juntos, El Corazon Nunca Se Equivoca and Sin Miedo a la Verdad. La Reina lost a tenth and the other two were level with last week.
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The CW did a 0.3/2, with both The Outpost and Two Sentence Horror Stories at 0.3. Both were up a tenth.
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.