Primetime Ratings: ‘Voice' Finale PowersNBC
By Michael Malone published

NBC took the Tuesday prime ratings title by a mile, with The Voice finale helping the network to a 1.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That doubled the score of the runner-up, ABC at 0.9/4.
After a Voice repeat, The Voice finale grew 18% week over week to a 2.0. Last night’s finale improved the show’s May closer by 5%. Its finale last December did a 2.5.
ABC had Olaf’s Frozen Adventure at 1.0, Prep & Landing at 0.9 and two hours of The Year: 2017, hosted by Robin Roberts, at 0.8.
CBS and Fox both posted a 0.5/2. CBS had A Home For the Holidays with Josh Groban at 0.6, then repeats of NCIS and Bull.
Fox had repeats across prime.
Telemundo and Univision both did a 0.4/2.
The CW was at 0.2/1. The movie Big Game took up all of CW’s prime.
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.
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