Primetime Ratings: CBS Best of Broadcast Bunch

CBS was the top scorer in Wednesday ratings, with a strong Big Brother pacing the network to a 0.9/4. That edged out Fox’s 0.8/4.

CBS won the race last week with the same score.

Big Brother grew 6% to 1.9 on Wednesday and led into a two-hour Salvation, the drama down a tenth of a point at 0.5.

Fox had MasterChef at a 1.0 and then The F Word With Gordon Ramsay at 0.6. Both shows were flat.

NBC did a 0.7/3. An America’s Got Talent repeat preceded The Carmichael Show at a level 0.7, then a Carmichael repeat at 0.6. A Law & Order: SVU repeat concluded prime.

ABC was at 0.6/3. The network aired repeated comedies throughout prime.

Telemundo was at 0.6/3, and Univision at 0.5/2.

The CW did a 0.2/1. It too was in repeats.

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.