Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins on Wild World Series Game

Fox took the Sunday ratings title with a decisive performance by the World Series, which saw the Astros jump ahead in games, 3-2, with a 13-12, extra inning, homer-happy, barnburner over the Dodgers. Fox had a 5.8 and 19 share for prime, ahead of NBC’s 3.8/12 thanks to Sunday Night Football.

Fox had an NFL over-run at 7.0, then The OT at 6.0, before shifting to baseball. Game 5 scored a 5.5 in prime.

On NBC, Football Night in America was down 29% at 2.2, and the game, the Pittsburgh Steelers against Detroit Lions, down 23% to 4.3. The Sunday game was not up against the World Series the week before.

CBS did a 09/3. 60 Minutes was off 40% at 1.5 and Wisdom of the Crowd dropped 27% to 0.8. NCIS: Los Angeles slipped 20% to 0.8 and Madam Secretary was down 25% to 0.6.

ABC was at 0.8/3. Toy Box scored a flat 0.4 and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown a 1.0, before a double run of Shark Tank did a flat 0.9.

Univision did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1, both same as last week.

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.