Big ‘Sunday Night Football’ Boost Paces NBC

NBC took Sunday ratings honors easily, riding Sunday Night Football to a 5.6 rating across prime in viewers 18-49, and an 18 share. Football Night in America went up 7% to 3.3 and the game, Eagles versus Cowboys, was north a noisy 24% to 6.2.

ABC was next at 2.0/7. Toy Box went up 20% to 0.6, then the American Music Awards rated a 2.4, which was flat with last year.  

CBS did a 1.5/5. A football overrun did a 4.4, then 60 Minutes rated a 2.0, up 67% from last week. Wisdom of the Crowd scored a flat 0.8, NCIS: Los Angeles slipped 22% to 0.7 and Madam Secretary grew 17% to 0.7.

Fox was at 0.9/3, its shows down considerably compared with last week, when an NFL game went into prime. Bob’s Burgers was off 31% at 1.1 and The Simpsons was down 42%, then Ghosted fell 39% to 0.8. Family Guy dropped 36% to 0.9 and Last Man on Earth dipped 22% to 0.7.

Univision rated a 0.6/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.