Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With NFL Opener
NBC won big in Thursday ratings, the NFL’s season starter, Packers versus Bears, pacing NBC to a 6.2 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 29 share.
Last year’s NFL premiere, Eagles versus Falcons, did a 6.0 and a 25 share.
CBS got a 0.7/3 and Fox a 0.5/2.
Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.4/2.
ABC did a 0.3/2 and The CW a 0.1/1.
The Packers beat the Bears 10-3 in a pretty dour match.
CBS had reruns before and after Big Brother, which did a 1.0. Big Brother did a 1.4 last week, though ratings were out of whack due to multiple NFL pre-season games in multiple markets, making week by week comparisons iffy.
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Fox had the Spin the Wheel finale at 0.5 across two hours, down a tenth.
On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso both had a flat 0.4. Preso No. 1 lost a tenth for a 0.2.
On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe and Juntos both did a 0.4, La Rosa flat and Juntos up a tenth. Sin Miedo a la Verdad posted a level 0.3.
ABC had The Lego Movie at 0.4 and Reef Break at 0.3.
On The CW, The Outpost and Two Sentence Horror Stories both scored a 0.1.
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.