TV Ratings: NBA Playoff Game Trumps ‘America’s Got Talent,’ ‘Transplant’ Debuts to 4 Million Viewers
Will Thorne Staff WriterThe Tuesday night ratings race was a battle between the NBA playoff game between the Utah Jazz and the Denver Nuggets, and the latest edition of “America’s Got Talent.”In the end, the basketball came out on top, averaging around a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49 and 2.7 million total viewers for ABC. The game itself was the decider between two evenly-matched teams, and ended in a narrow 80-78 victory for the Nuggets.However, “America’s Got Talent” easily got the viewership upper hand, drawing 6.1 million pairs of eyeballs to its latest episode, a three-week high for its Tuesday night showings.