Primetime Ratings Sunday: NBC Wins With Browns-Giants

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NBC had the winning score in Sunday prime, thanks to Sunday Night Football. NBC posted a 2.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In second was CBS at 1.6/9. 

Football Night in America lost 33% for a 1.0 on NBC and the game, Browns versus Giants, got a 3.3. Last week, Steelers-Bills posted a 3.8. 

CBS had Chiefs-Saints at the start of prime, then 60 Minutes at 3.1. Special Garth & Trisha Live! A Holiday Concert got a 0.8. The 22nd Annual A Home For the Holidays got a 0.4, up a tenth from last year. 

Everyone else was playing for scraps. ABC got a 0.5/3 and Fox a 0.4/2. ABC had 1965 classic The Sound of Music, about an Austrian nanny with a gift for song, across prime. The movie got a 0.6 last December. 

Fox had comedy reruns and a repeat of The Moodys

Telemundo scored a 0.3/2 and Univision a 0.3/1. Telemundo had movies The Marine 4: Moving Target and Jack Reacher

Univision had Aqui y Ahora down 60% to 0.2 and two hours of Enamorandos: Amor En La Navidad at 0.2 and 0.3. Sal y Pimienta got a 0.3. 

The CW rated a 0.1/0. Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic got a 0.1, as did The Outpost. The Outpost was up a tenth. 

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.