Wednesday Overnights: ‘Survivor’ Leads Evening; CBS Dominates

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Household Rating/Share
CBS: 3.5/ 6, Fox: 3.0/ 5, ABC and NBC: 2.8/ 5 each, CW: 0.6/ 1

Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening:
ABC and CW: no change, CBS: -15, Fox: -19, NBC: -26

Ratings Breakdown:
Veteran “Survivor” topped this second Wednesday in April, with a 4.7 rating/ 8 share in the household overnights at 8 p.m. With NBC’s “Chicago”-trio in repeats, CBS topped the evening, besting No. 2 Fox by one-half of a rating point. Fox, of course, featured dramas “Empire” (#2: 3.4/ 6 at 8 p.m.), which remains a shell of its heyday, and “Star” (#3t, 2.7/ 5 at 9 p.m.).

With recent realty/competition entry “Million Dollar Mile” banished to Saturday, an encore telecast of the Eye’s “NCIS” (#2: 2.8/ 5) filled the Wednesday 9 p.m. hour. And that led into relocated “SEAL Team” at a 3.2/ 6, which opposite a repeat of “Chicago PD” (#2: 2.6/ 5) topped the 10 p.m. hour. Comparably, “SEAL Team” outdelivered “Whiskey Cavalier” on ABC (#3: 2.5/ 5) by 28 percent.

Elsewhere, ABC had nothing usual to report with its Wednesday 8-10 p.m. sitcom block, and soon-to-conclude “Jane the Virgin” remained off the overnight household charts as follows:

8:00 p.m.
ABC – “The Goldbergs”: 3.3/ 6 (#2t)
CBS – “Survivor”: 4.8/ 9 (#1)
NBC – “Chicago Med” (R): 3.0/ 5 (#4)
Fox – “Empire”: 3.3/ 6 (#2t)
CW – “Into the Dark” (R): 0.6/ 1 (#5)

8:30 p.m.
ABC – “Schooled”: 2.7/ 5 (#4)
CBS – “Survivor”: 4.6/ 8 (#1)
NBC – “Chicago Med” (R): 2.9 / 5 (#3)
Fox – “Empire”: 3.4/ 6 (#2)
CW – “Into the Dark” (R): 0.5/ 1 (#5)

9:00 p.m.
ABC – “Modern Family”: 3.6/ 6 (#21)
CBS – “NCIS” (R): 2.7/ 5 (#3t)
NBC – “Chicago Fire” (R): 2.9/ 5 (#2)
Fox – “Star”: 2.7/ 5 (#3t)
CW – “Jane the Virgin”: 0.6/ 1 (#5)

9:30 p.m.
ABC – “Single Parents”: 2.3/ 4 (#4)
CBS – “NCIS” (R): 2.8/ 5 (#1)
NBC – “Chicago Fire” (R): 2.7/ 5 (#2t)
Fox – “Star”: 2.7/ 5 (#2t)
CW – “Jane the Virgin”: 0.6/ 1 (#5)

10:00 p.m.
ABC – “Whiskey Cavalier”: 2.4/ 5 (#3)
CBS – “SEAL Team”: 3.2/ 6 (#1)
NBC – “Chicago PD” (R): 2.5/ 5 (#2)

10:30 p.m.
ABC – “Whiskey Cavalier”: 2.4/ 5 (#3)
CBS – “SEAL Team”: 3.1/ 6 (#2)
NBC – “Chicago PD” (R): 2.5/ 5 (#2)

Source: Nielsen Media Research