Wednesday ratings last night and last week, with a comparision to Thursday the same week last year (because the similar Wednesday last year had the NFL kick-off game, which was displaced by coverage of President Obama’s acceptance speech for his second Democratic nomination). Tomorrow we will compared tonight’s NFL premiere game with the unusual Wednesday time period last year.
Last night was very similar to last Wednesday (a 6.3 collective adult 18-49 rating for the broadcast networks, up a few tenths from a 6.1 last Wednesday). FOX won another Wednesday night (2.0 for two episodes of MasterChef), but was down from a more dominating 2.3 last week.
NBC was in second place for the night (1.6 rating), but managed to win the 9 pm hour for the first time in weeks (a 2.3 rating for the live episode of America’s Got Talent, in which the top 12 finalists were revealed). AGT was up one tenth of a rating point from last week, defeating the 9 pm MasterChef by two tenths of a rating point (compared to a two-tenths victory for Gordon Ramsay in the hour last week).
CBS was in third place with a 1.4 rating for the night. Big Brother ticked up to a 2.2 this week for CBS at 8 pm.
ABC had the biggest increase over last week (up two tenths or 26%): Replacing The Neighbors at 9:30 improved all four half hours from 9 to 11 pm. However, the network still averaged only a 1.0 rating across prime time.
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