Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘Sunday Night Football’
NBC scored big in Sunday’s prime ratings, as Sunday Night Football paced the network to a 4.6 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 17 share. That topped the 1.8/7 that CBS got.
It was the Vikings versus the Packers on NBC. Football Night in America went up 20% to 2.4 and the pre-game climbed 18% to 4.6, then the game itself fell 7% to a 5.4. Last Sunday featured the Bears and the Vikings.
On CBS, an NFL overrun drove 60 Minutes up 110% to 2.1. God Friended Me grew 25% to 1.0 and NCIS: Los Angeles escalated 13% for a 0.9. Madam Secretary rated a flat 0.6.
ABC was at 0.7/3. America’s Funniest Home Videos went up 13% for a 0.9 and Dancing with the Stars: Juniors fell 14% to 0.6. Shark Tank slipped 13% to 0.7 and was followed by a Shark Tank rerun.
Fox posted a 0.6/2. Repeated comedies led into The Simpsons down 44% to 0.9 and Bob’s Burgers off 25% at 0.9, then more reruns.
Univision got a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.
The CW was at 0.3/1 as Supergirl posted a level 0.3 and Charmed lost a tenth of a point for a 0.2.
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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.