FOX benefited from America’s Got Talent being benched by the NHL on NBC, which carried Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final (the Los Angeles Kings winning their first championship in the franchise’s 46-year history). ABC also was helped to a lesser extent by displaced reality viewers looking for an alternative to hockey.
FOX won last night with a solid 2.7 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-10 pm (a 2.7 for Hell’s Kitchen at 8 and a 2.6 for MasterChef at 9). Each Gordan Ramsay cooking competition show was up three tenths of a rating point from last week’s time period premieres, and FOX was up smartly from the same night last year (a 1.7 rating on Monday, June 13, 2011 with a MasterChef repeat (1.3) and original MasterChef (2.0).
ABC is currently in second place (a 1.9 rating from 8-11 pm), with a 2.3 for The Bachelorette from 8-10 pm and a 1.1 for a repeat Castle. The five-week track Bachelorette track (2.6–2.4–1.9–2.2–2.3) suggests a bit of a rebound, but the show will probably tick back down next week when America’s Got Talent returns to the night.
NBC currently stands at a 1.6 rating from 8-11 pm for NHL Game 6, with the game bouncing between a 1.5 (mostly during period intermissions) and a 1.7 during game action. Remember, the west coast (most importantly the Kings’ home-market Los Angeles) is not properly reflected in the fast nationals because the telecast was a live event. Look for the official nationals for NBC to go up to a 1.8 rating, which would still be third on the night and below the roughly 2.0 rating the night has averaged for NBC the past few weeks. UPDATE: NBC’s coverage of Stanley Cup Game 6 got a nice lift in the official nationals, to a 2.0 rating from 8-11 pm, lifting NBC to second place for the night about ABC.
CBS finished in fourth place with its schedule of repeats, averaging a 1.4 rating from 8-11 pm, up a tenth from last Monday’s nightly rating.
Also check out today’s update on weekly and season ratings averages.
