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NBC's broadcast of the Billboard Music Awards (2.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.96 million viewers) hit a franchise low in the 18-49 age bracket Wednesday night, while easily besting all primetime competitors with the network's top-rated in-season Wednesday in the demo – excluding Olympics – since…

CBS' Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.4 rating in adults 18-49, 7.36M viewers) was Wednesday's highest-rated show in the demo, besting Fox's Empire (1.1, 3.8M) at 8 PM. The Jamal-wedding episode of Empire held steady at its series demo low for a fourth time in five weeks. Empire's showing in the key age bracket for…

CBS' Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.83 million viewers) continued to grow, topping Wednesday in all metrics and hitting a season high in total viewers. The network’s Season 31 launch of The Amazing Race (1.2, 7.83M) took 9 PM across the board, climbing 50% versus Million Dol…

Season 31 of The Amazing Race will leave the starting line more than a month earlier than scheduled. CBS said today that the new iteration will premiere at 9 PM Wednesday, April 17; it had been set for May 22. With that move, the network has banished LeBron James’ Million Dollar Mile from its Wednesday timeslot to…

CBS’ Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic, 7.31 million viewers) handily won Wednesday in the key ratings demo for a fourth week, despite slight slippage week to week. Meanwhile, NBC's Chicago dramas dominated primetime in total viewers, with 9 PM’s Chicago Fire (1.1, 8.10M) attracting the…

The fifth and final season of the CW’s Jane the Virgin (0.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 800,000 viewers), which resolved the big Michael finale cliffhanger, premiered Wednesday to solid numbers on a mixed night that also saw the debut of CBS’ competition series Million Dollar Mile (1.0, 4.07M) and the…

CBS' special two-hour Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.3 demo rating, 7.03 million viewers) won its 8-10 PM time slot Wednesday night and was No. 1 for the night in both metrics, though it tied a series low for a regular episode in the demo. The reality veteran likely got dinged by NBC's two-hour The Voice recap…

UPDATED with more numbers: The return of Fox’s Empire from its winter hiatus Wednesday took a tumble from its fall finale, drawing 4.4 million total viewers and a 1.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, the second-lowest numbers to date for the hip-hop drama. It still was the night’s second highest-rated show in…

In the land of repeats, the 37th Survivor finale was king Wednesday night. Survivor (1.5 rating in the 18-49 demo, 7.62 million viewers) was primetime’s top program, and also the night’s only original program among CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and CW. The CBS reality series came in 4% higher in viewers and 7% higher in the demo…

On a night of scripted series fall finales for ABC, CW and CBS, latter's Survivor (1.5 demo rating, 7.714 million viewers) was Wednesday's No. 1 show in total viewers and in the demo. With a repeat Empire (0.6, 2.182M) on Fox, and no Chicago Med on NBC to contend with, Survivor scored its largest audience since its…

On a night strewn with fall finales, Fox’s Empire (1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic, 5.034 million viewers) tied CBS’ Survivor (1.5, 7.450M) for Wednesday night’s No. 1 spot in the demo. Empire slipped a tenth versus last week in the metric, and by four-tenths versus its year-ago fall finale. Following Empire,…

NBC’s two-hour Christmas In Rockefeller Center (1.3 demo rating, 8.376 million viewers) topped Wednesday night in total viewers, but took a tumble compared to year ago one-hour tree-lighting extravaganza (1.7, 9.033M). NBC boasted the most-watched primetime Christmas special on the Big 4 since the annual ceremony’s 8…