Wednesday Overnights: ‘The Masked Singer’ Boosts Fox

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Household Rating/Share
NBC: 5.4/ 9, Fox: 3.9. 7, CBS: 3.1/ 5, ABC: 2.3/ 4, CW: 0.4/ 1

Note: Comparisons to the year-ago evening are excluded because NBC aired The Winter Olympics.

Ratings Breakdown:
NBC and Fox continue to own the bragging rights to Wednesday. The Peacock net’s trio of Chicago-set dramas – “Chicago Med” (#1 for the night: 5.6 rating/10 share), “Chicago Fire” (5.5/ 9 at 9 p.m.) and “Chicago PD” (5.0/10 at 10 p.m.) – fluctuated by only six-tenths of a household rating point, winning five of the six half-hours in the household overnights. And Fox breakout “The Masked Singer” scored a healthy 5.4/10 at 9 p.m., building by a hefty 116 percent from “Gordon Ramsay’s 48 Hours to Hell and Back” (2.5/ 4) in the 8 p.m. hour.

In season finale news, “Big Brother” Celebrity Edition” averaged a modest 2.7/ 5 in the household overnights from 9-11 p.m., which was 31 percent below lead-in “The World’s Best” (#2: 3.9/ 7 from 8-9 p.m.). One year earlier, “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” was notably stronger at a 3.6/ 6 in the 8 p.m. hour. Comparably, that put’s “The World’s Best” on par with “Big Brother.”

Elsewhere, ABC featured original and repeat installments of its two-hour Wednesday sitcom block into 10 p.m. time period filler “The Match Game” (#3: 1.9/ 4). And The CW was in repeats.

What follows are the metered market (overnight) results in households for Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

8:00 p.m.
ABC – “The Goldbergs”: 3.4/ 6 (#3)
CBS – “The World’s Best”: 4.0/ 7 (#2)
NBC – “Chicago Med”: 5.6/10 (#1)
Fox – “Gordon Ramsay’s 48 Hours to Hell and Back”: 2.4/ 4 (#4)
CW – “Riverdale” (R): 0.5/ 1 (#5)

8:30 p.m.
ABC – “Schooled”: 2.7/ 5 (#3)
CBS – “The World’s Best”: 3.7/ 6 (#2)
NBC – “Chicago Med”: 5.6/10 (#1)
Fox – “Gordon Ramsay’s 48 Hours to Hell and Back”: 2.5/ 4 (#4)
CW – “Riverdale” (R): 0.4/ 1 (#5)

9:00 p.m.
ABC – “Modern Family” (R): 2.2/ 4 (#4)
CBS – “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” (season finale): 2.8/ 5 (#3)
NBC – “Chicago Fire”: 5.5/ 9 (#1)
Fox – “The Masked Singer”: 5.1/ 9 (#2)
CW – “All American” (R): 0.3/ 1 (#5)

9:30 p.m.
ABC – “Single Parents”: (R): 2.0/ 4 (#4)
CBS – “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” (season finale): 2.6/ 4 (#3)
NBC – “Chicago Fire”: 5.5/ 9 (#2)
Fox – “The Masked Singer”: 5.6/10 (#1)
CW – “All American” (R): 0.3/ 1 (#5)

10:00 p.m.
ABC – “The Match Game”: 1.9/ 3 (#3)
CBS – “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” (season finale): 2.7/ 5 (#2)
NBC – “Chicago PD”: 5.0/ 9 (#1)

10:30 p.m.
ABC – “The Match Game”: 1.8/ 4 (#3)
CBS – “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” (season finale): 2.6/ 5 (#2)
NBC – “Chicago PD”: 5.0/10 (#1)

Source: Nielsen Media Research