Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With NBA Finals

ABC won Thursday ratings by a mile, the NBA finals leading the network to a 3.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In a distant second was CBS at 0.7/3.

Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night got a 2.1 on ABC and NBA Countdown a 2.2. The game, Golden State Warriors versus Toronto Raptors, did a 3.9 across the rest of prime. Last year’s NBA finals opener, Warriors versus Cavaliers, did a 5.1.

CBS had comedy reruns leading into Life In Pieces, which was down 13% at 0.7, and Elementary at a flat 0.5.

Telemundo rated a 0.5/2, with Betty en NY up a tenth of a point for a 0.5 and La Reina del Sur at a flat 0.6.

Fox, NBC and Univision all did a 0.4/2.

Fox had Paradise Hotel across prime, the show flat with last week.

NBC had double runs of AP Bio at 0.4 and 0.4, both down a tenth, and Abby’s at 0.4 and 0.3, after its most recent 0.4. A Law & Order: SVU rerun closed out prime.

The CW rated a 0.2.1, iZombie and In the Dark both scoring a flat 0.2. 

Michael Malone

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.