Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Football

NBC took top honors in Sunday prime, riding Sunday Night Football to a 4.2 rating in viewers 18-49, and a 14 share. In second was football-fueled Fox at 2.9/10. 

NBC had Football Night in America at 2.1, down 38%, then the game, Steelers versus Ravens, off 6% at 4.9. 

Fox had an NFL overrun, which boosted The Simpsons up 59% to 2.7 while Bob’s Burgers did a flat 1.6. A second Bob’s Burgers rated a 1.3, then Family Guy went up 9% to 1.2. 

ABC was at 0.9/3. America’s Funniest Home Videos fell 10% to 0.9 and the film Frozen rated a 1.2. 

CBS did a 0.8/3. 60 Minutes was down 8% to 1.1, then Wisdom of the Crowd slipped 22% to 0.7. NCIS: Los Angeles was good for a flat 0.8 before Madam Secretary was up a tenth of a point at 0.7. 

Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.

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.