Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Growing Football

NBC took the Sunday ratings title as Sunday Night Football led the net to a 4.8 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 17 share. Second place went to CBS at 2.1/8.

Football Night in America grew 43% to 3.0 on NBC and the game, Cowboys versus Raiders, ticked up 6% to 5.2.

With a football lead-in, 60 Minutes did a 2.8 on CBS, way up from last week’s 1.1. Wisdom of the Crowd went up 57% to 1.1, NCIS: Los Angeles grew 13% to 0.9 and Madam Secretary did a flat 0.7.

Fox scored a 1.5/5. A Christmas Story Live, about a boy’s desire for a BB gun for Christmas, aired from 7 to 10 p.m. Another live musical, Grease: Live, did a 4.3 on Fox back in January.

ABC rated a 0.8/3. The Sound of Music occupied all of prime.

Telemundo did a 0.4/1 and Univision a 0.3/1.

Related: NBCUniversal Gets Streaming Rights to 'Sunday Night Football'

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.