Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins Wednesday With ‘Big Brother’
Thanks to big lead-in, CBS shares convention coverage win
CBS had the winning score in Wednesday prime, Big Brother leading the way for the Eye. CBS tallied a 0.6 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. In second was NBC with a 0.4/3.
Big Brother got a 1.1 and 1.0 across two hours, up a tick from the previous week’s 1.0, and Tough As Nails grew 25% to 0.5. CBS’ coverage from the Republican convention got a 0.3.
NBC had America’s Got Talent at a level 0.6 and an Ellen’s Game of Games rerun. Convention coverage posted a 0.3.
Fox did a 0.4/2 with MasterChef reruns.
ABC, Telemundo and Univision all scored a 0.3/2. ABC had the United We Fall finale at a flat 0.5, comedy reruns, and convention coverage, which did a 0.3.
Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos down 25% to 0.3. Cennet got a 0.4 and Enemigo Intimo 2 a 0.3, both up a tenth.
Univision had La Rosa de Guadalupe down 20% to 0.4 and two hours of Medicos at 0.3, down 40% from the week before.
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The CW got a 0.1/0. Women in Film Presents and Coroner both got a 0.1, Coroner level with last week.
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.