Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Bills-Steelers
NBC won Sunday prime, with Sunday Night Football pacing the Peacock to a 3.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 17 share. In second was Fox, also fueled by football, at 2.0/9.
Football Night in America dropped 22% to 1.8 on NBC and the pre-game lost 10% for a 3.7. The game, Bills versus Steelers, rated a 4.4, a 7% gain over Seahawks-Rams last Sunday.
Fox had Rams-Cowboys starting prime. The Simpsons did a 1.8, way up over the previous airing’s football-free 0.7, and Bless the Harts a flat 1.0. Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy both went up 50% to 0.9.
ABC and CBS both rated a 0.6/3. ABC had The Sound of Music on throughout prime.
On CBS, 60 Minutes got a 0.8 and the 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors a 0.6.
Univision scored a 0.3/1 and Telemundo a 0.2/1. On Univision, Aqui y Ahora got a flat 0.3 and the holiday film Elf followed.
On Telemundo, it was the movies TKO and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
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The CW posted a 0.1/1. The premiere of The Christmas Caroler Challenge took up prime.
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.