One Chicago ratings report: Week of Oct. 23, 2019

How did Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med do in the ratings this week? Find out in the Oct. 23 edition of the One Chicago ratings report.

Without the One Chicago crossover to draw extra attention, ratings for the franchise dropped this Wednesday, in what’s become par for the course.

Since crossovers bring in higher ratings for the One Chicago franchise, it makes sense that their numbers would decline the following week, back closer to their normal rate. And that’s what was the case this week.

At 8 p.m. Chicago Med recorded 7.67 million people watching live. That’s down more than a million people from last Wednesday’s 8.83 (-1.16, or a drop of 1,160,000).

The decrease punted Med from first place in total viewers down to third place—still a respectable finish.

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In the critical demographic (adults 18-49), this week’s episode “Got A Friend In Me” scored a 1.2, which was also less than last week’s 1.4.

However, it was still good enough to tie Chicago Med for third place in that category—with its own parent series Chicago Fire.

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Fire returned to its usual 9 p.m. time slot with an audience of 7.81 million live viewers. That was also a decline from the previous 8.07, but not nearly as significant (-0.26, or 260,000).

In the demo, “Buckle Up” also scored a 1.2 share, which was down a tick from the prior 1.3 (but on par with what the show was doing in that category two weeks ago).

Finishing out the night was Chicago PD, which scored 6.69 million eyeballs. That was the biggest week-to-week loss, tumbling all the way down from 8.63 (-1.94, or 1,940,000). Essentially, PD lost almost two million viewers—or a little more than 20 percent of its total audience!

Once again dropping about a million viewers behind the other two One Chicago shows, PD fell to fifth overall in total audience.

It also dropped from a 1.4 to a 1.1 in the key demo, which made it also fifth in that category among the 15 shows that aired on broadcast TV this Wednesday. Again, nothing to necessarily complain about, but it seems like viewers were pretty quick to tune back out of Chicago PD once the crossover ended.

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