Primetime Ratings: ABC, Fox Split Win
ABC and Fox were top broadcasters Wednesday, both with 1.3 ratings among viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, with a 5 share.
Next were CBS and NBC at 1.2/4, while The CW did a 0.2/1.
Among the Spanish-language broadcasters, Univision scored a 0.7/3 while Telemundo tallied a 0.6/2.
ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat grew 25% to 1.5, then Speechless slipped 6% to a 1.6. After a Modern Family repeat, Black-ish fell 12% to a 1.5. Match Game, hosted by Alec Baldwin, lost 9% at 1.0.
Fox’s Lethal Weapon did a flat 1.4 and Star slipped 14% to 1.2.
CBS aired Undercover Boss at a flat 1.1 then The People’s Choice Awards, which did a 1.2 rating in the demo, down a tenth from last year, and had 6.67 million total viewers. Joel McHale hosted the affair, while Jane Lynch did so last year.
NBC’s Blindspot decreased 10% to a 0.9 while Law & Order: SVU scored a flat 1.4, and Chicago P.D. an also flat 1.5.
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The CW aired an Arrow repeat before Frequency posted a level 0.2.
Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.