Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins as ‘Sunday Night Football’ Grows
NBC scored the top ratings Sunday, asSunday Night Footballled the network to a 4.3 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 15 share. Fox was runner-up at 3.0/11.
Football Night in America did a 2.7 on NBC, down 21% from last week’s pre-game, before Sunday Night Football, Chiefs versus Texans, went up 6% to 5.2.
Fox had an NFL overrun, then The OT at 4.7. Comedies The Simpsons did a 2.2, up 57% from last week, Ghosted a 1.4 that stayed level with its premiere, Family Guy up a tenth of a point at 1.4 and Last Man on Earth also up a tenth at 1.0.
CBS scored a 1.0/3, as 60 Minutes weighed in at 1.1 (with an NFL lead-in a week before, the newsmag had rated a 2.0) while Wisdom of the Crowd fell 29% to 1.0. NCIS: Los Angeles slipped 17% to 1.0 and the premiere of Madam Secretary did a 0.8, up a tenth from its May season finale.
ABC did a 0.7/2. The Toy Box scored a flat 0.4 and the season premiere of America’s Funniest Home Videos a 0.9. Shark Tank fell 15% to 1.1 and Ten Days in the Valley dropped 33% from premiere to a 0.4.
Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.
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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.