Primetime Ratings: Fox Rides Game 7 to Big Win

Fox was a big winner in Wednesday prime ratings, riding the final game of the World Series, won by—spoiler alert!—the Houston Astros. Fox had a 7 rating in viewers 18-49, and a 24 share. That beat ABC’s 1.0/4. Fox had a 5.1/19 the night before with Game 6.

The competition was hurt by the World Series’ final game.

ABC saw The Goldbergs fall 14% to 1.2 and Speechless down 18% to 0.9, then Modern Family off 12% at 1.5 and American Housewife down 8% at 1.2. Designated Survivor posted a flat 0.8.  

CBS was at 0.9/3. It had Survivor off 12% at 1.5, then repeats of SEAL Team.

NBC did a 0.7/3. The Blacklist was down a tenth of a point at 0.8, and reruns of Law & Order: SVU and Chicago P.D. followed.

Telemundo did a 0.6/2 and Univision a 0.4/2.

The CW rated a 0.4/1. It had Riverdale at a flat 0.6, then Dynasty at a level 0.2.

Michael Malone

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.