Primetime Ratings: NBC Olympics Coverage Ticks Up

NBC rode Olympics action to a big win in Monday’s prime ratings, finishing with a 5.2 in viewers 18-49, according to the Nielsen overnights, and a 19 share. In second was ABC at 1.3/5.

The previous night, NBC rated a 5.1 across prime.

Monday’s action from PyeongChang included alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, snowboarding and speed skating.

On ABC, The Bachelor was down 17% from last week at 1.5 and was followed by a Good Doctor repeat.

CBS was at 0.8/3. Big Brother: Celebrity Edition did a 1.3, up a tenth from the previous night, and was followed by repeats.

Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.5/2.

The CW and Fox were both at 0.4/1. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow rated a 0.5 on CW, before Whose Line Is It Anyway? tallied a 0.2.

On Fox, Lucifer and The Resident both scored a 0.4. Last week’s Lucifer rated a 1.0 and The Resident a 1.1, before the Olympics began.

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.