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Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Consistently Strong ‘Empire’

Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, as Empire paced the network to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That topped the 1.2/5 posted by NBC. Empire rated a flat 1.5 and Star was up a tenth of a point at 1.3. On NBC, Chicago Med and Chicago Fire did 1.3 while Chicago ...

‘All American’ starts soft on CW

Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, as Empire paced the network to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That topped the 1.2/5 posted by NBC.

Empire rated a flat 1.5 and Star was up a tenth of a point at 1.3.

On NBC, Chicago Med and Chicago Fire did 1.3 while Chicago P.D. scored a 1.2. All three shows were flat with last week.

ABC and CBS both did a 1.1/5. For ABC, The Goldbergs rated a level 1.3 and American Housewife was off 9% to 1.0. Modern Family did a flat 1.4 and Single Parents fell 9% to 1.0, then A Million Little Things posted a flat 0.8.

On CBS, Survivor scored a flat 1.5, then SEAL Team a 0.9 and Criminal Minds a 0.8, the latter two up a tenth of a point from last week.

Telemundo did a 0.5/2 and Univision a 0.4/2.

The CW scored a 0.4/2 with the Riverdale starter at 0.5, down 38% from last year’s premiere, and the series premiere of football drama All American at 0.2.


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