“Chicago Fire,” “Chicago PD” and “Chicago Made” gave the network the highest demo ratings and total viewership for the night.
NBC’s “One Chicago” franchise won both the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and overall average audiences for the network on Wednesday night, according to Nielsen’s Live Plus same-day data. The number of demos this week increased slightly from the previous week to 0.63, and the overall average viewership remained at 6.4 million.
Starting at 8 p.m., “Chicago Made” combined to rack up 0.64 in ratings and 6.9 million overall average viewers. It was no match for 9 PM, where “Chicago Fire” made its way to the network’s highest total average viewership of the night with 7 million average viewers while receiving a 0.64 rating. NBC strengthened the night with “Chicago PD”, which earned a 0.60 rating and attracted an average audience of 5.6 million.
Here’s how primetime fell short at the major broadcasters:
As we mentioned above, NBC won on Wednesday in both ratings and overall average viewership. Next in the ratings was Fox, which drew in a ratings score of 0.52 and ranked third in total viewership with an average viewership of 2.8 million.
The Foxes made their primetime debut by catching the end of MLB’s National League Championship Series Game Two, where the San Diego Padres defeated the Philadelphia Phillies. The hour slipped from coverage of last week’s Padres-Dodgers game, which garnered all-time high ratings of 0.95 and 4.2 million average viewers, despite receiving a 0.73 rating – the night’s highest individual rating – and drawing 3.2 million average viewers. Of. ,
After the game, Fox aired “The Masked Singer”, which earned a 0.39 rating and an average viewership of 2.5 million, beating their final show of the night, “Lego Masters”, which achieved 0.27 in ratings and 1.5 million. Average audience gained. ,
CBS ranked third in ratings with 0.4 in the major demographic and earned second place in terms of overall average viewership with 2.9 million. The network debuted strongly with “Survivor” in the 8 o’clock hour, with ratings of 0.67 and 4.9 million average viewers. This was followed by “Real Love Boat” at 9 pm, which garnered a 0.26 rating and an average viewership of 1.6 million. The end of the evening was “The Amazing Race”, which earned a 0.27 rating and 2.3 million average viewers.
ABC rounded out the night in fourth place in both the demo with an average of 0.37 in ratings as well as overall viewership with an average of 2.5 million viewers. “The Conners” opened the night with ratings between 0.51 and 3.6 million viewers, followed by “The Goldbergs” with 0.39 ratings and 2.3 million average viewers. Fan-favorite “Abbott Elementary” received a rating of 0.48 and average viewership of 2.5 million and “Home Economics” received a rating of 0.36 with an average viewership of 1.9 million. In the end, “Big Sky” closed the night with a 0.23 rating and an average audience of 2.2 million.
The CW demo was fifth in ratings with an average of 0.07 and an average of 405,000 in total viewers, which drops to 46,000 average viewers from the previous week. “Stargirl” released a new episode in its third season, earning a rating of 0.09 and attracting an average audience of 423,000. Next was a new episode of “Kung Fu”, which received a rating of 0.06 and an average viewership of 387,000.
Neither The CW nor Fox air primetime programming at 10 p.m.
In the Spanish-language network, Univision came in first place with a 0.6 rating in demo and 1.6 million total average viewers in primetime. “La Herencia, un legado de amor” at 8 p.m. earned a rating score of 0.6 in the demo and an average of 1.7 million viewers. It was followed by “Los Ricos Tambien Loran”, which received 0.5 in the demo and 1.5 million overall average viewers. The Liga MX soccer game closed the night by scoring a 0.7 in ratings and an average of 1.7 million total viewers.
Telemundo fell far behind in second place with a 0.3 demo rating and an average of 1.1 million viewers. The new episodes of the third season of “La Reina del Sur” drew a 0.5 demo rating and an average of 1.5 million total viewers, while “El Fuego del Destino” received a demo rating of 0.2 and achieved an average total viewership of 911,000. .
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