Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘SNL’ Special
NBC got top spot in Tuesday’s prime ratings, riding The Voice to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, and a 5 share. That squeezed by the 1.0/4 that CBS put up.
NBC had The Voice down 7% at 1.4 and A Saturday Night Live Christmas at 1.0 from 9 to 11 p.m. The SNL special did a 1.1 last year.
CBS aired NCIS at 1.2 and FBI at 1.0, then NCIS: New Orleans at 0.8. All three shows were flat.
ABC did a 0.8/4. Fox tallied a 0.7/3 and The CW did a 0.5/2.
Univision rated a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.
For ABC, The Connors did a 1.3 and The Kids Are Alright a 0.8, both down a tenth of a point. Black-ish got a 0.8, Splitting Up Together a 0.6 and The Rookie a 0.7. Those three were also down a tenth.
On Fox, The Gifted and Lethal Weapon both rated a 0.7. The Gifted climbed 17% from last week and Lethal was flat.
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The CW had The Flash up 17% for a 0.7 and Black Lightning at a level 0.3.
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.