Wednesday TV Ratings: ‘Masked Singer’ Premiere & ‘AGT’ Finale Split Night
A busy Wednesday night in primetime broadcast television on September 23 saw the Season 4 premiere of Fox’s The Masked Singer take the lead in the key 18-49 demo (1.4) and NBC’s Season 15 finale of America’s Got Talent winning the night in total viewers.
Though Masked Singer dropped from the third season premiere (a major slip was a given considering that premiere drew 23.8 million viewers when it aired after the Super Bowl) it also dropped from the second season last September, which boasted a 2.5 rating and 8.0 million viewers.
The news was good for Fox’s new singing competition, I Can See Your Voice, which won the 9 o’clock hour in 18-49 and came in second in total viewers (behind AGT) with 4.5 million viewers. The night’s usual winner, Big Brother, managed to stay on par with previous weeks by bringing in a 1.1 rating and 4.0 million viewers.
Here’s the breakdown for Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):
| Show | Adults 18-49 rating | Total Viewers (millions) | |
| 8 p.m. | The Masked Singer – P (Fox) | 1.4 | 5.4 |
| Big Brother (CBS) | 1.1 | 4.0 | |
| America’s Got Talent Finale Preview (NBC) | 0.6 | 5.2 | |
| Guardians of the Galaxy (ABC) | 0.4 | 1.9 | |
| The 100 (CW) | 0.1 | 569,000 | |
| 9:00 p.m. | I Can See Your Voice – P (Fox) | 1.1 | 4.5 |
| America’s Got Talent – F (NBC) | 0.7 | 6.3 | |
| Love Island – CBS | 0.6 | 1.9 | |
| Coroner (CW) | 0.1 | 707,000 | |
| 10:00 p.m. | 48 Hours: Suspicion | 0.4 | 2.0 |
| 10:30 p.m. | The Goldbergs – R (ABC) | 0.2 | 976,000 |
