Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Eagles-Falcons
NBC won Sunday ratings, as it will all fall, thanks to Sunday Night Football. The Peacock got a 4.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 19 share.
Fox, also with some football, was next at 2.1/9.
Football Night in America fell 37% to 1.9 on NBC and the pre-game did a 4.5. The game, Eagles versus Falcons, rated a 5.3. Last week, Patriots versus Steelers did a 6.6.
Fox had the end of Saints versus Rams, then The OT fell 19% to 3.5. Special The Masked Singer: Super Sneak Peek got a 1.4. Comedy repeats followed.
CBS got a 0.8/3 and ABC a 0.6/3. CBS had 60 Minutes up 38% to 1.1 and Big Brother at a level 1.2, then drama reruns.
ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos rerun and Celebrity Family Feud at a flat 0.8. $100,000 Pyramid did a 0.6 and To Tell the Truth a 0.5, the pair both down a tenth of a point.
Telemundo did a 0.4/2 and Univision a 0.3/1. On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos posted a flat 0.4 and El Secreto De Selena a 0.3. On Univision, Aqui Y Ahora and Natalia Jiminez: Mexico De Mi Corazon scored a 0.3. El Grito De Mexico got a 0.4 and Cronicas a 0.3.
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The CW rated a 0.1/0. Special Warigami 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.