Primetime Ratings Sunday: Football Down a Bit on NBC
Football leads into Dolly Parton special on CBS
NBC had the winning rating Sunday, as Sunday Night Football led the network. Broncos-Chiefs gave NBC a 3.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 18 share. That was well ahead of CBS’s 1.2/6.
Football Night in America got a flat 1.9 on NBC and the game a 3.7, down 8% from Bears-Packers last Sunday.
CBS had football heading into prime, then Dolly Parton special A Holly Dolly Christmas at 0.7. NCIS: Los Angeles lost 33% for a 0.4.
ABC and Fox both scored a 0.5/3. ABC had America’s Funniest Home Videos and Supermarket Sweep at 0.6 and Who Wants to be a Millionaire at 0.5, all three up a tenth. Card Sharks got a level 0.3.
On Fox, comedy reruns led into The Simpsons, down 17% to 0.5 and Bless the Harts off 43% to 0.4. Bob’s Burgers got a 0.5 and Family Guy a 0.6, both comedies flat.
Telemundo and Univision both notched a 0.3/2. Telemundo had movies Babylon A.D. and Unstoppable.
Univision had Liga MX soccer and Aqui y Ahora off 33% for a 0.2.
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The CW scored a 0.1/0. Pandora and The Outpost both got a 0.1, the former flat and the latter up a tenth.
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.