Primetime Ratings Tuesday: Fox on Top With Cowboys-Ravens

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Fox won Tuesday prime ratings easily thanks to football. The Cowboys-Ravens contest led Fox to a 2.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In a distant second was ABC at 0.9/5. 

Fox had Cowboys versus Ravens across its prime. 

ABC had two hours of The Bachelorette at 1.2 and 1.1, same as last week, and Big Sky down 29% for a 0.5.

CBS got a 0.6/3 and NBC a 0.5/3. CBS had NCIS down 22% to 0.7 and FBI off 25% to 0.6, then FBI: Most Wanted down 17% to 0.5.

On NBC it was The Voice at a flat 0.7 and the two-hour Transplant finale at a level 0.4. 

Univision scored a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. Univision had Vencer El Desamor and Imperio de Mentiras at 0.4, Vencer down a tenth and Imperio up a tenth. Dulce Ambicion got a flat 0.3. 

On Telemundo it was El Domo del Dinero at 0.2 and Todo Por Mi Hija at 0.4, the pair flat. Falsa Identidad went up 50% to a 0.3.

The CW scored a 0.1/0, with Swamp Thing and Tell Me a Story both at a level 0.1. 

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.