Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Strong Series

Fox won the Sunday ratings race, as baseball’s best--the World Series finale, Red Sox versus Dodgers--led Fox to the win. Fox had a 4.9 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 18 share. NBC did a 3.2/12 thanks to Sunday Night Football.

Fox had an NFL overrun, then The OT at 6.4. The World Series, starting at 8 p.m. and going beyond prime, did a 3.9.

NBC’s Football Night in America fell 32% to 1.3 and the pre-game was off 11% for a 3.1, then the game, Saints versus Vikings, fell 13% to 4.0.

CBS rated a 0.7/3 and ABC a 0.6/2. Telemundo scored a 0.5/2, Univision a 0.4/1 and The CW a 0.3/1.

On CBS, 60 Minutes did a 0.8, down 70% from last week’s NFL-added program, and God Friended Me fell 46% to 0.7. NCIS: Los Angeles slipped 27% to 0.8 and Madam Secretary dropped 14% to 0.6.

On ABC, America’s Funniest Home Videos did a flat 0.8 and Dancing with the Stars: Junior dropped 13% to 0.7. Shark Tank was off 25% to 0.6 and The Alec Baldwin Show slid 25% to 0.3.

The CW had Supergirl at a flat 0.4 and Charmed down a tenth 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.