The night’s biggest game show was a presidential debate.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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.
NBC: Night 1 of the DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DEBATE (which also aired on cable) had a preliminary 1.6. It was preceded by a rerun ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES at 0.8.
CBS: BIG BROTHER dropped 0.2 from Tuesday’s premiere to 1.1. The season finale of THE AMAZING RACE was at 0.8, down 0.1 from the February 2018 finale.
ABC: PRESS YOUR LUCK dropped 0.1 to 0.8, CARD SHARKS lost 0.2 to 0.6, and MATCH GAME was down 0.1 to 0.6.
FOX: MASTERCHEF was steady at 0.7, but FIRST RESPONDERS LIVE fell 0.2 to 0.4.
CW: JANE THE VIRGIN held at 0.2, the same as the PENN & TELLER: FOOL US rerun that preceded it.
Tonight, the DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DEBATE continues, and there are finales for CW’s IN THE DARK and CBS’s LIFE IN PIECES.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 live+same day ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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PREVIOUS WEDNESDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS
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