Primetime Ratings: CBS, Fox Split Win
CBS and Fox shared the Thursday ratings title, both posting a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. CBS had Big Brother and unscripted repeats.
Big Brother went up 8% to 1.4 before and after repeats. Fox had reruns of MasterChef and Spin the Wheel.
Multiple NFL pre-season games aired in various markets on multiple networks, resulting in jacked up ratings in some spots.
ABC and NBC both scored a 0.8/4. On ABC, a Holey Moley rerun led into two hours of Reef Break at 0.9 and 0.6. Last week’s Reef Break scored a 0.4.
On NBC, it was repeats of The Wall, Hollywood Game Night and Law & Order: SVU.
Telemundo scored a 0.4/2 and Univision a 0.3/2. On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso both tallied a 0.4 while Preso No. 1 did a 0.3. Exatlon and El Final were flat and Preso lost a tenth.
On Univision, it was 0.3s for La Reina Soy Yo, Juntos, El Corazon Nunca Se Equivoca and Sin Miedo a la Verdad. La Reina lost a tenth and the other two were level with last week.
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The CW did a 0.3/2, with both The Outpost and Two Sentence Horror Stories at 0.3. Both were up a tenth.
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.