Primetime Ratings: ‘SNF’ Down But Still Strong Enough for Big NBC Win

NBC rode Sunday Night Football to a decisive Sunday ratings win, posting a 3.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 13 share, the ratings up a tenth of a point from last week’s performance. CBS was second at 1.9/6.

The Sunday programs were up against the World Series on Fox the week before.

Football Night in America grew 40% to 3.1 for NBC, then the game, Raiders versus Dolphins, a 4.0, down 7%.

CBS had an NFL overrun at 5.4, then 60 Minutes grew 60% to 2.4. Wisdom of the Crowd blew up 57% to 1.1 and NCIS: Los Angeles climbed 13% to 0.9, before Madam Secretary went up 17% to 0.7.

Fox was at 1.2/4. After a Simpsons repeat, Bob’s Burgers went up 23% from two weeks ago to 1.6, and a new TheSimpsons lost 19% for a 1.3. Ghosted lost a tenth of a point at 1.0 and Family Guy a fell 17% to 1.0, before Last Man on Earth posted a level 0.8.

ABC did a 0.7/3, with Toy Box at a flat 0.4 and America’s Funniest Home Videos at a flat 0.9, then Shark Tank at 0.9 and a second Shark Tank at 0.7. Shark Tank did a 0.9 last Sunday.

Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.5/2.   

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.