Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Stanley Cup Closer

NBC skated to a big win in Wednesday ratings, as the final game of the NHL championship paced the Peacock to a 2.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 13 share. In distant second was ABC at 0.8/4.

The Stanley Cup game seven, Bruins against Blues, did a 2.5 across prime. Game five got a 1.5 and game six a 1.9.

The St. Louis Blues won the Cup.

ABC had game shows: Press Your Luck at 0.9, up a tenth of a point from the night before, the premiere of Card Sharks at 0.9 and Match Game at 0.8.

Fox got a 0.6/3 and CBS a 0.5/3. Fox had MasterChef at a flat 0.7 and the premiere of First Responders Live at 0.5. Dick Wolf produces the latter.

On CBS, The Amazing Race got a 0.8 and NCIS: The Cases They Can’t Forget a 0.4, both shows flat. A SWAT repeat took up the 10 p.m. hour.

Telemundo also did a 0.5/3, with Betty en NY at 0.5 and La Reina del Sur at 0.6, both flat.

Univision rated a 0.3/2.

The CW was at 0.2/1. A Penn & Teller: Fool Us repeat led into Jane the Virgin at a level 0.2.

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.