Preliminary Ratings: Thursday 05/31/2018

With game one of the NBA Finals, ABC crushed the competition, averaging 12 million viewers and a 4.3 rating in Adults 18-49. The game itself drew over 13.6 million viewers and a 5.1 demo rating. But that is down two million viewers and about 15% from last year's game one.

The other four networks aired encores, exclusively. NBC was best of the rest with 4.4 million viewers and a 0.9 demo rating. CBS, with its comedy line up, averaged 5.1 million viewers and a 0.8 demo rating. FOX posted a 0.5 rating in Adults 18-49, while drawing 1.8 million viewers. The CW was last with just under 700k in viewership and a 0.2 demo.

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