Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Biden-Harris
Spanish-language ‘The Masked Singer’ up on Univision
ABC won the Sunday ratings contest, with a Joseph Biden-Kamala Harris interview setting the pace. ABC got a 0.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.5/3s that CBS and NBC tallied.
ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos rerun, then The Ticket: The First Interview. David Muir, anchor of World News Tonight, and Robin Roberts, co-anchor on Good Morning America, interviewed Biden and Harris. Reruns of Press Your Luck and Match Game followed.
CBS had 60 Minutes down 17% to 0.5 and Big Brother at a level 1.0. Reruns of NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans followed.
NBC had Cannonball at a flat 0.4 and hockey playoffs, Bruins against Lightning, at 0.5.
Univision got a 0.4/3 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. Univision had Aqui y Ahora at a flat 0.3 and
¿Quien Es La Mascara?, a Spanish-language The Masked Singer, up 33% to 0.4.
Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos at 0.3, up a tick from last week’s 0.2 and 0.3, and movie The Transporter Refueled.
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Fox scored a 0.2/1 with comedy reruns.
The CW rated a 0.1/0. Fridge Wars scored its usual 0.1 and a Supernatural rerun followed.
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.