Primetime Ratings: ‘SNF’ Up a Tick on NBC
Packers-Saints gives NBC a boost
NBC won Sunday primetime thanks to the NFL. Sunday Night Football led NBC to a 3.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 19 share. In second was Fox, with football leading into prime, at 2.3/12.
Football Night in America dropped 22% to 1.4 on NBC and the game, Packers versus Saints, got a 4.2, a tenth of a point up from last week, when the Emmys were on ABC.
On Fox, The OT got a 4.8. Its animated comedies had their season premieres. The Simpsons got a 2.0 and Bless the Harts a 0.8. Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy both got a 0.7.
CBS got a 0.6/3 and ABC a 0.3/2. CBS had 60 Minutes at 0.7, way down from the previous week’s show, which had a football lead-in, and Big Brother at a flat 0.9. Love Island got a level 0.4 and a rerun of NCIS: New Orleans followed.
ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos rerun and special $ellebrity: The Go-To Girls at 0.3 for two hours. A Card Sharks rerun closed out prime.
Telemundo and Univision both got a 0.2/1. On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos did a flat 0.3 across three hours and a rerun of The Wall closed out prime.
On Univision, special Enamorandonos: La Primera Boda got a 0.2 and 0.3 across two hours and Futbol Central got the same numbers across its two hours.
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The CW posted a 0.1/0 with IHeartRadio Music Festival.
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.