Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Football

Fox had the top spot in Sunday prime ratings, riding an NFL pre-season game to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. In second was CBS at 0.7/4.

Fox had comedy reruns leading into Seahawks-Vikings at 1.1.

CBS had 60 Minutes up 80% from last week at 0.9 and Big Brother up 8% at 1.3. Two episodes of Instinct got a 0.5 and 0.3, a little better than last week’s 0.4 and 0.3. That series concludes this season.

ABC scored a 0.6/3 and NBC a 0.4/2. On ABC, an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat led into Celebrity Family Feud at a level 0.8. $100,000 Pyramid did a 0.6 and To Tell the Truth a 0.5, both down a tenth of a point

NBC had repeats of America’s Got Talent and Bring the Funny.

Telemundo got a 0.3/2 and Univision a 0.2/1.

The CW rated a 0.1/1 with repeats. 

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.