Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins as ‘Thursday Night Football’ Grows

Fox won Thursday’s prime derby with Thursday Night Football, Steelers versus Panthers, leading Fox to a 3.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnight ratings, and a 14 share. That easily beat the 1.2/5 that CBS put up.

A blowout for the Pittsburgh squad, Steelers-Panthers took up all of Fox’s prime. The telecast grew 57% from last Thursday’s game, Niners versus Raiders, also a blowout.

CBS had Big Bang Theory up 10% at 2.3 and Young Sheldon grew 6% to 1.8, then Mom ticked up 9% to 1.2 and Murphy Brown was a flat 0.8. SWAT increased 14% to 0.8.

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ABC did a 1.1/5, as Grey’s Anatomy rated a 1.6 and Station 19 a 1.0, both up a tenth of a point, before How to Get Away With Murder dropped 13% to 0.7.

NBC was at 0.8/4. Superstore was up 13% at 0.9 and The Good Place north 14% for a 0.8. A rerun of The Voice did a 0.7 before Law & Order: SVU rated a flat 0.9.

Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2.

The CW was at 0.3/1 with Supernatural and Legacies both down a tenth of a point at 0.3. 

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.