Preliminary Ratings: Monday 06/20/2016

NBC and ABC battled it out for Monday night supremacy. with each network tying in total viewers and in the A18-49 demographic. ABC was king in the younger, A18-34 demo, while NBC took the A25-54 crown.

THE BACHELORETTE was the #1 program of the night, winning in every reported category. It is up, slightly, from its last airing, two weeks earlier, in viewers and the A18-49 demo. MISTRESSES is not holding up its fair share. It lost 57% of its lead in audience and  62% of the A25-54 demographic. Its weakness is why ABC did not sweep the Monday night ratings.

NBC has found a nice one-two punch in AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR and SPARTAN: TEAM CHALLENGE. The two shows mesh well and SPARTAN hold onto 83% of its A18-49 lead in.

CBS' encore lead night topped FOX's all-original night. BREAN DEAD is dead, in the ratings, and FOX is doing its best to stay ahead of The CW.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	5.70 million	1.4	1.7	1.9
CBS	4.00 million	0.4	0.7	1.1
CW	1.00 million	0.2	0.3	0.4
FOX	2.50 million	0.4	0.6	0.8
NBC	5.70 million	1.1	1.7	2.1

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	The Bachelorette	7.00	1.8	2.1	2.4
10:00	ABC	Mistresses	3.00	0.6	0.8	0.9
8:00	CBS	Mom [R]	4.70	0.3	0.8	1.3
8:30	CBS	2 Broke Girls [R]	4.10	0.4	0.8	1.3
9:00	CBS	Scorpion [R]	4.20	0.4	0.7	1.1
10:00	CBS	Brain Dead	3.40	0.3	0.5	0.8
8:00	CW	Reign (SF)	1.00	0.2	0.3	0.3
9:00	CW	Whose Line is it Anyway?	1.10	0.2	0.3	0.4
9:30	CW	Whose Line [R]	1.10	0.2	0.3	0.4
8:00	FOX	SYTYCD:TNG	3.20	0.5	0.8	1.1
9:00	FOX	Houdini & Doyle	1.80	0.3	0.4	0.5
8:00	NBC	American Ninja Warrior	6.30	1.2	1.8	2.2
10:00	NBC	Spartan: Team Challenge	4.60	0.9	1.5	1.8

* - in millions