Primetime Ratings: ‘American Music Awards’ Fall Hard on ABC

ABC’s American Music Awards rated a 2.4 in adults 18-49, down 31% from last year’s telecast. That led out of America’s Funniest Home Videos at 1.1, up 38%.

NBC rated a 5.0/15 share, according to Nielsen’s overnights, while CBS did a 2.2/7, ABC a 2.1/6 and Fox a 1.1/3.

Sunday Night Football rated a 5.6 on NBC, leading out of a 3.2 Football Night in America. The previous week’s SNF telecast scored a 6.0 and the pregame a 3.8.

CBS’ 60 Minutes started late coming out of football and measured a 2.1; last week’s, featuring a Donald Trump interview, did a 3.2. NCIS: Los Angeles fell 32% to 1.3, Madam Secretary slipped 27% to 0.8 and Elementary posted a flat 0.7.

Fox’s Bob’s Burgers did a flat 1.0 and The Simpsons a 1.3 (last week’s Simpsons rode an NFL lead-in to a 3.1). A second helping of Burgers did a 1.2 and Family Guy was up 8% to 1.3 before Last Man on Earth slid 18% to a 0.9.

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.