Primetime Ratings: ABC Takes Title With ‘Idol’
ABC won the Sunday ratings race, with American Idol pacing the Alphabets to a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.7/4 that CBS posted.
After an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, American Idol got a 1.0 from 8 to 10 p.m., down 17% from last week. The Rookie fell 13% to 0.7.
On CBS, 60 Minutes did a 0.9 and God Friended Me a 0.6, then NCIS: Los Angeles a 0.7. Those three were level with last week. NCIS: New Orleans fell 14% to 0.6.
Fox, NBC and Univision all got a 0.4/2.
Fox had repeats.
NBC had a rerun of Jesus Christ Superstar Live and a Dateline repeat.
Univision had Aqui y Ahora down 20% to 0.4 and three hours of Hijo de Dios at 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6.
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Telemundo scored a 0.3/2 with movies.
The CW did a 0.1/1 with reruns of Batwoman and Supergirl.
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.