CBS finishes in first place for the 14th consecutive prime-time season. It also finishes in first place for the week of May 23-29.
The season finales of “NCIS” and “Chicago Fire” were the only scripted programs to top 7 million viewers in a week that included the final three days of the official 2021-22 television season and the first four of the 2022 summer season.
Even with NBC airing both the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics, CBS finished in first place for the 14th consecutive season and for the 19th time in 20 seasons, averaging 6.3 million viewers. NBC was second, averaging 6.07 million viewers, while ABC was third among broadcast networks airing a full 22 hours of prime-time programming each week, averaging 4.23 million viewers; Fox, which broadcasts an average of 16 hours per week, averaged 4.5 million.
TNT’s coverage of the Golden State Warriors’ five-game victory over the Dallas Mavericks averaged 6.7 million viewers, the network’s most for an NBA conference finals series since 2018. Viewership was up 23% from the 5.5-million average for the ESPN-ABC coverage of the Phoenix Suns’ six-game victory over the Los Angeles Clippers last year.
Fox averaged 2.28 million viewers for its 16 hours, 44 minutes of prime-time programming, topped by the premiere of the latest incarnation of the musical game show “Don’t Forget the Lyrics!,” which averaged 2.082 million viewers, 48th among prime-time broadcast programs. Two NBA Eastern Conference finals games helped ESPN win the cable network race, averaging 3.398 million viewers. Fox News Channel was second for the third time in four weeks, averaging 2.171 million viewers.
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