Primetime Ratings: ABC Game Shows Fall But Network Still Wins
ABC was best of the broadcast bunch Sunday, scoring a 1.0 rating in viewers 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, and a 5 share. Fox was second at 0.9/4.
ABC’s game shows fell from last week. After an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, Celebrity Family Feud did a 1.4, down a tenth of a point. Steve Harvey’s Funderdome slipped 29% to 1.0, and The $100,000 Pyramid fell 25% to 0.9.
On Fox, U.S. Open golf did a 1.4, then American Grit went up 25% to 0.5, before a Family Guy repeat closed out the network’s prime.
NBC rated a 0.6/3. Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, which featured her controversial interview with Infowars founder Alex Jones, scored a 0.5. It was pre-empted in Hartford-New Haven out of consideration for the Newtown community, as Jones has called the Sandy Hook murders a hoax. Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly rated a 0.9 last week.
It was followed by repeats of American Ninja Warrior and Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge.
CBS did a 0.4/2. 60 Minutes was off 17% at 0.5 and was followed by repeats.
Among Spanish-language networks, Univision weighed in at 0.4/2 and Telemundo at 0.2/1.
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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.