Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Hearty ‘SNF’
NBC won Sunday ratings by a mile, with the NFL leading the way. The network tallied a 4.6 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, with a 16 share. That topped CBS’ 1.9/7.
NBC did a 4.3/15 the week before. Football Night in America was up 7% to 2.9, while the New York Giants took down the Denver Broncos for their first win, the game rating a 5.0, down 4% from last Sunday.
The NFL bolstered CBS ratings too. A game led into 60 Minutes at 2.2, double last week’s rating, then Wisdom of the Crowd went up 20% to 1.2. NCIS: Los Angeles was up a tenth of a point at 1.1, and Madam Secretary did a flat 0.8.
Fox rated a 1.0/4. An NFL overrun preceded a rerun of Ghosted, then Bob’s Burgers slipped 15% from its last new episode two weeks ago to 1.1 and The Simpsons went down 41% to 1.3. A new Ghosted was off 29% at 1.0 and Family Guy fell 14% to 1.2 before Last Man on Earth dropped 20% to 1.0.
ABC scored a 0.7/2, with Toy Box at a flat 0.4 and America’s Funniest Home Videos down 11% at 0.8. Shark Tank posted a level 1.1 and Ten Days in the Valley also was flat at 0.4.
Univision did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1, both level with last Sunday.
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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.