Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Brawny ‘Big Brother’
‘AGT’ level with last week on NBC
CBS won Wednesday primetime thanks to Big Brother. CBS got a 0.6 in viewers 18-49 on the night, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. In second was Univision at 0.4/3.
Big Brother did a flat 1.0 and Love Island a 0.4, up a tenth from the previous episode. The premiere of 48 Hours Suspicion on CBS got a 0.3.
Univision had La Rosa de Guadalupe and Medicos at 0.4s. Dulce Ambicion got a 0.3. All three were level with last week.
Fox was just behind at 0.4/2 thanks to reruns of MasterChef.
ABC, NBC and Telemundo all rated a 0.3/2. ABC had comedy repeats.
On NBC it was America’s Got Talent at a level 0.6 and special Inspire Change at 0.2. A Chicago Fire rerun followed.
Telemundo had Exatlon Estados and Todo Por Mi Hija at 0.3s, both flat. Enemigo Intimo 2 slid 33% to 0.2.
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The CW scored a 0.1/1. The 100 tallied a 0.2 and Coroner a 0.1, both flat
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.