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Primetime Ratings: CMA Awards Dip Slightly on ABC

ABC won the Wednesday ratings race, with the CMA Awards leading the network to a 2.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. That topped the 1.1/5 that Fox posted. It was the 53rd annual CMA Awards, celebrating the best in country music. It was on throughout prime. Last year’s ...

‘Masked Singer’ off a bit on Fox

ABC won the Wednesday ratings race, with the CMA Awards leading the network to a 2.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. That topped the 1.1/5 that Fox posted.

Dolly Parton performs at the 2019 CMA Awards

It was the 53rd annual CMA Awards, celebrating the best in country music. It was on throughout prime. Last year’s awards got a 2.1.

Fox had The Masked Singer down 20% at 1.6 and Almost Family off 29% at 0.5.

NBC did a 1.0/5. Chicago Med and Chicago Fire did 1.1s and Chicago P.D. got a 1.0. Med and P.D. were flat and Fire was up a tenth.

CBS got a 0.9/5. Survivor lost 15% for a 1.1 and SWAT was a flat 0.5

Telemundo and Univision both got a 0.5/2. On Telemundo it was 0.5s for Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final Del Paraiso and El Senor de los Cielos, Exatlon flat and the other two up a tenth. On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe and Cuna de Lobos got 0.5s and El Dragon a 0.4. All were flat.

The CW scored a 0.2/1. Riverdale did a 0.3 and Nancy Drew a 0.2. Riverdale went up a tenth and Nancy was flat. 


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