Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Steelers-Ravens

NBC scored highest in Sunday ratings, as Sunday Night Football led the network to a 4.4 score in viewers 18-49, and a 17 share. That beat the 1.9/7 that CBS put up.

Football Night in America fell 10% to 1.9 on NBC and the pre-game did a 4.2. The game, Steelers against the Ravens, slipped 4% for a 5.5.

On CBS, an NFL overrun led into the 60 Minutes premiere at 2.6, up a tenth of a point from last year’s opener. The God Friended Me premiere did a 1.4. The NCIS: Los Angeles opener was down a tenth from last year’s premiere at 1.1 while a Magnum P.I. repeat closed out prime.

Fox did a 1.4/5. Comedy repeats led into a new TheSimpsons at 1.8, up 29% from last year’s premiere. Season premieres for Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy both did a 1.2 (last year’s did 1.3s), and Rel scored a 0.8.

ABC rated a 0.6/2. The America’s Funniest Home Videos season starter was down a tenth from last year’s premiere at 0.8 and the film Frozen did a 0.6. A Shark Tank repeat followed.

Univision did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.

Michael Malone

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.