Primetime Ratings: ABC, CBS Split the Win

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ABC and CBS split the Sunday ratings honors, both putting up a 1.0 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, then Celebrity Family Feud was off 7% at 1.3 and Steve Harvey’s Funderdome fell 18% to 0.9, before $100,000 Pyramid too dropped 18% to 0.9.

On CBS, a 60 Minutes repeat led into Big Brother, which was up 29% at 1.8. The premiere of Candy Crush did a 1.1 and was followed by a repeat.

NBC scored a 0.6/3. Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly rated a flat 0.4 and was followed by repeats of The Wall and American Ninja Warrior.

Fox was at 0.4/2. Repeated comedies led into American Grit at a flat 0.4.

Michael Malone
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.