Primetime Ratings: Football Paces NBC to Win

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NBC won Thursday night among the broadcast networks, putting up a 1.6 rating in adults 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, with a 6 share.

CBS did a 1.4/5, ABC and Fox a 0.8/3, and The CW at 0.2/1.

NBC had pre-season NFL football throughout prime, with the Atlanta Falcons facing the Miami Dolphins.

CBS saw Big Brother, with repeats on either side, climb 6% to 1.9.

On ABC, BattleBots did a flat 0.8 and $100,000 Pyramid a 0.7; the latter rated a 1.0 in its last airing.

CW had a repeat leading into Beauty and the Beast at 0.2, down a tenth from its last original airing.

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.