Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Warriors-Raptors
ABC won Sunday ratings by a mile, game two of the NBA finals leading the network to a 3.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. That easily topped the 0.5/3 that runner-up NBC rated.
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night got a 1.9 on ABC and NBA Countdown a 2.3. The game, Warriors versus Raptors, scored a 3.8. Game two of last year’s finals, Warriors versus Cavaliers, got a 5.2.
On NBC, it was repeats of American Ninja Warrior and America’s Got Talent.
Univision did a 0.4/2 on the strength of the Pequenos Gigantes finale.
Fox did a 0.3/2 with comedy reruns.
CBS got a 0.3/1. 60 Minutes went up a tenth to 0.5 and led into repeats.
Telemundo was at 0.2/1.
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The CW did a 0.1/1. The premiere of legal drama Burden of Truth got a 0.1 and led into a Supernatural repeat. Burden of Truth debuted at 0.2 last summer.
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.