Primetime Ratings: ‘SNF’ Down on NBC With Chiefs-Bears
NBC got the top score in Sunday prime, with Sunday Night Football leading the Peacock to a 3.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In second was Fox at 2.4/11.
Football Night in America fell 17% to 1.5 on NBC and the pre-game slid 14% to 3.2. The football game, Chiefs versus Bears, lost 9% for a 4.0.
Fox had Cowboys-Eagles starting off prime, then reruns of The Masked Singer.
CBS did a 0.5/2 and ABC a 0.4/2. CBS had 60 Minutes, which fell 25% to 0.6 and The Price is Right at Night at 0.7, then A Home For the Holidays with Idina Menzel at 0.3.
ABC had I Want a Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown at 0.3 and Kids Say the Darndest Things at a level 0.4. Two hours of special The Year: 2019 got a 0.4.
Telemundo and Univision both got a 0.2/1. Telemundo had the movies Hot Pursuit and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
On Univision it was Aqui y Ahora at a flat 0.3 and two hours of special Premios Bandamax at 0.2. Cronicas shot up 50% for a 0.3.
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The CW did a 0.1/0 with The Christmas Caroler Challenge across prime, and flat with last week.
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.