NBA playoffs top TV ratings, with ‘America’s Got Talent’ close behind

NBA programming accounted for each of the four highest-rated programs in the latest prime-time ratings, while the 18th season premiere of “America’s Got Talent” was the top-ranked non-sports program. “America’s Got Talent” averaged 6.11 million viewers, fifth for the week, behind NBA playoffs and coverage. ABC’s top non-sports program was a rerun of “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” which averaged 3.08 million viewers, 15th for the week and eighth among non-sports programs. The top 20 prime-time programs consisted of three NBA playoff games — two on ABC and one on TNT; three NBA postgame shows — two on ABC and one on TNT; two NBA pregame shows on ABC; “America’s Got Talent”; two editions of “60 Minutes” with previously broadcast segments that were updated for the post-season editions; reruns of six CBS scripted programs; reruns of the ABC alternative series “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” and “Celebrity Family Feud”; and the NBC crime thriller “The Blacklist.” TNT won the cable network race for the seventh consecutive week thanks to its coverage of Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals and Game 1 of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Final, averaging 2.07 million viewers. The cable prime-time top 20 consisted of Game 7 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals and its pregame show; eight Fox News Channel political talk shows — four broadcasts of “Hannity,” three of “Fox News Tonight” hosted by Johnny Joey Jones and one of “The Ingraham Angle”; four MSNBC political talk shows — three editions of “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell” and one of “Alex Wagner Tonight”; two NHL playoff games — one each on TNT and ESPN; Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules”; the first two hourlong segments of “WWE Raw”; and ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” game between the Dodgers and the Yankees.