Primetime Ratings: NBC Stays Strong With Games
NBC won the ratings race with Olympics coverage, its 5.2 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, flat with the network’s previous-night performance. NBC also pulled in a 20 share.
Related: Primetime Ratings: NBC Olympics Coverage Ticks Up
In second was ABC at 0.7/3.
NBC’s Tuesday offerings included snowboarding, alpine skiing and speed-skating.
On ABC, The Bachelor Winter Games premiered to a 0.8. The show sees 14 international bachelors and bachelorettes seek out love with existing Bachelor personalities.
CBS did a 0.6/2. It was in repeats.
Fox was at 0.5/2 with repeats.
Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.5/2.
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The CW weighed in at 0.4/2. After a repeat of The Flash, drama Black Lightning did a 0.5, down a tenth of a point from its airing last week.
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.