Bereft of hits and in the traditional April lull before the last big month of the traditional TV season, Fox averaged a paltry 2.2 million viewers last week. Its most popular show, Empire,aired a rerun that had barely over 3 million viewers. Despite having many of its shows in repeats, CBS won the week in primetime with an average of 6.7 million viewers.
NETWORK RATINGS ROUNDUP, APRIL 17-23
Rough Week For Fox Broadcast Ratings
NEW YORK (AP) — It felt like a summer week on the Fox broadcasting network — and that’s not a good thing.
Bereft of hits and in the traditional April lull before the last big month of the traditional TV season, Fox averaged a paltry 2.2 million viewers last week. Its most popular show, “Empire,” aired a rerun that had barely over 3 million viewers.
Its most popular show last week, an episode of “Masterchef Junior,” ranked No. 49 for the week, the Nielsen company said.
As is becoming more frequent, as many people watched Fox News Channel in primetime as its corporate sister on broadcast.
Despite having many of its shows in repeats, CBS won the week in primetime with an average of 6.7 million viewers. NBC had 5.1 million, ABC had 4.1 million, Univision had 1.7 million, Telemundo had 1.6 million, Ion television had 1.2 million and the CW had 660,000.
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TNT was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 3.08 million viewers with the help of the NBA playoffs. Fox News Channel had 2.24 million, HGTV had 1.402 million, MSNBC had 1.4 million and TBS had 1.32 million.
NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.84 million viewers. ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 7.78 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.3 million viewers.
The Top 20
Primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 17-23. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.
1. “NCIS,” CBS, 13.33 million.
2. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 11.19 million.
3. “Bull,” CBS, 10.32 million.
4. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 10.16 million.
5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.9 million.
6. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 9.57 million.
7. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 9.44 million.
8. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 8.85 million.
9. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 8.45 million.
10. “Little Big Shots,” NBC, 8.4 million.
11. “Survivor,” CBS, 7.92 million.
12. “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 7.87 million.
13. “Scorpion,” CBS, 6.59 million.
14. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 6.56 million.
15. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 5.96 million.
16. “Kevin Can Wait,” CBS, 5.91 million.
17. “Chicago Justice,” NBC, 5.63 million.
18. “The Great Indoors,” CBS, 5.47 million.
19. “Man With a Plan,” CBS, 5.42 million.
20. “The Middle,” ABC, 5.26 million.
Comments (1)
Julien Devereux says:
April 26, 2017 at 10:02 am
I thought APB was doing well.