Primetime Ratings: CBS Best of Broadcast Bunch
By Michael Malone published

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, 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.
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