Primetime Ratings: Sunday Football Down on NBC

NBC won the Sunday prime contest, with Sunday Night Football leading the Peacock to a 3.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In second was football-fueled CBS at 2.1/9.

On NBC, Football Night in America lost 8% for a 2.3 and the pre-game slid 11% to 4.1. The game, Seahawks against Rams, got a 4.1. Last Sunday, Patriots-Texans posted a 5.5.

Ratings from Seattle and Los Angeles are not included in the Nielsen overnights.

CBS had Patriots-Chiefs at the start of prime. Featuring an Adam Sandler interview, 60 Minutes rated a 3.3 after last week’s 1.9 and God Friended Me shot up 67% to 1.0. NCIS: Los Angeles posted a flat 0.7 and Madam Secretary grew 25% to 0.5.

Fox got a 0.9/4 and ABC a 0.6/3. Fox had 2019 Miss Universe. The pageant did a 1.1 last year.

ABC had America’s Funniest Home Videos down 13% at 0.7 and the AFHV special America, This Is You! at 0.6. Kids Say the Darndest Things lost 33% for a 0.4 and The Rookie went up 20% to 0.6.

The CW did a 0.4/2. Supergirl got a 0.6, way up from 0.2 last week, and special Crisis Aftermath a 0.2.

Telemundo posted a 0.4/2. Miss Universo did a 0.4 and 0.5 across two hours, before Celebrando La Corona special did a 0.3.

Univision got a 0.2/1. Enamorandonos: Conquistando El Amor did a 0.2 and 0.3 across two hours and Cronicas got a 0.2. 

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.