Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Olympics
By Michael Malone published

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, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.
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