TV Ratings story for the week of July 13 — 19 Wed., July 22, 2020
The Thursday episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show” drew the largest audience for a regularly scheduled program in the history of MSNBC, which began broadcasting in 1996.
It was the first time an original “America’s Got Talent” episode had averaged under 8 million viewers among its seven episodes this summer. An “America’s Got Talent” episode has been the week’s highest-rated entertainment program every week an original episode has aired since its 2016 season premiere.
NBC was second, averaging 2.98 million, followed by Fox News Channel, which averaged 2.938 million and ABC, which averaged 2.83 million. Fox’s top-rated program for the second consecutive week was a rerun of the procedural drama “9-1-1: Lone Star,” 50th among broadcast programs, averaging 2.282 million viewers. Its overall rank was not available.With less first-run programming because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the combined four-network viewership was down 8.5% from the corresponding week one year ago. Fox viewership was down 29%, NBC’s 13.2% and ABC’s 12.7% while CBS’ was up 10.4 %.
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