Primetime Ratings: Mighty ‘Talent’ Paces NBC
NBC won the Tuesday ratings race, as the second to last episode of America’s Got Talent led the network to a lofty 1.8 rating in viewers 18-49, and an 8 share. That easily beat the 0.6/3s that CBS and Fox put up.
America’s Got Talent, with the 10 finalists doing battle at the Dolby Theatre, went up 16% to 2.2 from 8 to 10 p.m. Paley Center Salutes This Is Us did a 0.9.
CBS had repeated dramas.
Fox saw the Beat Shazam closer go up 14% to 0.8 and the Love Connection finale up 25% at 0.5.
Telemundo also did a 0.6/3.
ABC did a 0.4/2 with repeated comedies, before the Castaways finale dropped 40% to 0.3.
Univision, too, was at 0.4/2.
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The CW scored a 0.3/1 with repeats of Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.
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.