Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With ‘Empire’

Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, with Empire, despite being down, still leading the way to a best-in-class 1.5 score in viewers 18-49, and a 6 share. That topped the 1.1/5 put up by CBS. 

Empire lost 15% from last week for a 1.7 and Star slipped 13% to 1.3. 

On CBS, Survivor was off 6% for a 1.6 and was followed by an NCIS repeat. Criminal Minds decreased 9% for a 1.0. 

ABC was at 1.0/4. The Goldbergs was down 7% for a 1.3 and Alex, Inc. dropped 18% from its premiere at 0.9. Modern Family went up 7% for a 1.5 and American Housewife lost a tenth for a 1.2. Drama Designated Survivor scored a flat 0.7. 

NBC did a 0.8/3. The Blacklist scored a flat 0.9 and was followed by repeats of Law & Order: SVU and Chicago P.D. 

Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.4/2. 

The CW weighed in at 0.2/1. A Riverdale repeat led into Life Sentence, which was up a tenth of a point at 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.