Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Stanley Cup Action

NBC took top honors in the Monday ratings race, with hockey leading to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That beat the 1.2/5 put up by ABC.

Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals, Washington against Vegas, did a 1.5 and ate up all of prime. Last year’s Game 4, Nashville versus Pittsburgh, scored a 1.9.

On ABC, The Bachelorette rated a 1.6 from 8 to 10 p.m., 14% better than its premiere. The Crossing went up 20% to 0.6.

Fox did a 0.6/3. It had the premiere of So You Think You Can Dance at 0.7 before a 9-1-1 repeat. Last year’s So You Think You Can Dance opener did a 0.9.

CBS was at 0.6/2 with repeats leading into a new Elementary, which grew 50% to 0.6.

The CW did a 0.4/2. Supergirl increased 25% to 0.5 and the premiere of Whose Line Is It Anyway? scored a 0.3, same as last year’s premiere.

Telemundo and Univision were both at 0.4/2 as well, same as last Monday.

Michael Malone

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.