Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Olympics

NBC took top prize in Wednesday ratings, its Olympics coverage producing a 4.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share.

The runner-up was CBS at 1.0/4.

NBC’s prime offerings from Pyeongchang included snowboarding, figure skating and speed skating.

The previous night, NBC did a 5.2/20 in prime.

CBS had Big Brother: Celebrity Edition at a level 1.3 while The Amazing Race dropped 18% to 0.9.

ABC was at 0.6/2, with repeated comedies, then Match Game lost a tenth of a point for a 0.5.

Fox too was at 0.6/2. It had repeats of The Resident and 9-1-1.

Univision scored a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.

The CW rated a 0.2/1. Relationships Just For Laughs scored a 0.2 and The Top 14 Greatest Valentine’s Day Movies of All Time did the same.

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.