Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With ‘Empire’ and ‘Star’

Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, Empire leading the network to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, according to the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 0.9/4 that both ABC and CBS posted.

Empire did a 1.1 and Star a 0.9, both down a tenth of a point.

On ABC, The Goldbergs rated a flat 1.1 and Schooled grew 13% for a 0.9. Modern Family went up 9% to 1.2 and Single Parents was a level 0.8, then Whiskey Cavalier a 0.6, also flat.

CBS had Survivor at a flat 1.5 and an NCIS repeat, then SEAL Team at a level 0.6.

NBC got a 0.5/3 with Chicago repeats.

Telemundo and Univision both did a 0.4/2.

The CW rated a 0.2/1 with an In the Dark repeat and a new Jane the Virgin at a level 0.2.

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.