Primetime Ratings: ‘The Masked Singer’ Leads Fox to Win
Fox won Wednesday ratings by a mile, with The Masked Singer occupying all of its prime. The Masked Singer got a 2.0 in its first hour and a 1.4 in its second. Spoiler alert--Bret Michaels, formerly of Poison, was unmasked. The show’s 1.7 average was equal to last week’s rating across one hour.
Fox’s 1.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and 9 share topped CBS’s 0.9/5.
CBS had Survivor at a flat 1.5 and SEAL Team up 14% to 0.8, then SWAT up 20% to 0.6.
ABC and NBC both got a 0.6/3. ABC had The Goldbergs at a level 0.8 and Schooled at 0.6 was 0.7. American Housewife got a 0.6 and Single Parents a 0.5, both comedies flat. Who Wants to be a Millionaire? fell 14% to 0.5.
NBC had Chicago repeats.
Univision did a 0.5/3 and Telemundo a 0.4/2. Univision had Te Doy La Vida down 14% to 0.5 and Amor Eterno at a flat 0.6. Sin Mideo a la Verdad got a flat 0.4.
Telemundo aired Cennet at 0.4 and La Dona at 0.4, both level with last week. La Reina del Sur 2: Edicion Especial got a 0.3.
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The CW scored a 0.1/1. It had People Presents Harry & Meghan: A Royal Rebellion across its prime.
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.