Primetime Ratings Sunday: NBC on Top With NFL Playoffs
Browns-Steelers does a healthy number
NBC had the top score in Sunday prime, with playoff football action leading the way. NBC scored a 5.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 25 share. In second was CBS at 2.3/11.
Football Night in America got a 2.0 on NBC, up 33% from the week before, and the game, Browns versus Steelers, a 6.0. That was a 62% gain from the previous Sunday, which was the regular-season finale.
CBS had Bears versus Saints at the start of prime and 60 Minutes up 19% to 1.9. NCIS: Los Angeles grew 17% to 0.7 and NCIS: New Orleans scored a flat 0.5.
ABC got a 0.5/3. America’s Funniest Home Videos went up 17% to 0.7 and a Celebrity Wheel of Fortune rerun followed. Who Wants to be a Millionaire shot up 25% to 0.5 and The Rookie lost 20% for a 0.4.
Univision posted a 0.4/2. Aqui y Ahora shot up 150% to 0.5 and led into movie Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation.
Fox had a 0.3/1 with comedy reruns.
Telemundo had a 0.1/1 with a Browns-Steelers simulcast.
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The CW got a 0.1/0 with the Critics Choice Super Awards.
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.