Primetime Ratings: Football Stays Strong for NBC

Sunday Night Football paced NBC to a big win on the night, the network doing a 6.3 in adults 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 20 share.

CBS scored a 2.1/7, ABC a 1.1/4 and Fox a 0.6/2.

SNF’s pre-game tallied a 3.8 before the game, Dallas Cowboys versus Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which did a 7.0, down 9% from last week.

CBS had 60 Minutes at 2.8, obliterating last week’s 1.1, then NCIS: Los Angeles was flat at 1.4. Madam Secretary skyrocketed 57% to 1.1 while Elementary shot up 60% to 0.8, both benefiting from their regular lead-in after last week's Dick Van Dyke special.

ABC’s annual broadcast of The Sound of Music, about the unlikely romance between a flighty governess and an uptight widower with many, many musically gifted children, did a 1.1, up 10% from last year.

Fox’s Breakthrough Prize scored a 0.7 before repeated comedies.  

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.