Basketball.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).
Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart.
ABC: Game 1 of the NBA FINALS had a preliminary 5.9 rating, down a slight 0.1 from 2016’s Game 1. It should adjust up by more than a point in finals.
CBS: The season finale of THE AMAZING RACE was up 0.1 from last week to 0.7, but that was down 0.3 from last year’s finale (an in-season airing on a Friday). The night started with sitcom reruns dominated by the 1.0 for THE BIG BANG THEORY.
FOX: BEAT SHAZAM, which aired against the pre-game programming on ABC, dropped 0.1 to 1.1, while LOVE CONNECTION, which aired against the game itself, fell 0.3 to 0.8.
NBC: Procedural reruns at 0.5-0.6.
CW: SUPERNATURAL reruns at 0.2/0.2.
Tonight’s primetime is made up of reruns and newsmagazines, except at CW.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
PREVIOUS THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS)
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