Primetime Ratings: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Slips on NBC

NBC won the Sunday ratings race, Sunday Night Football leading it to a 3.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In second was NFL-fueled CBS at 2.1/9.

Football Night in America did a flat 1.9 on NBC and the pre-game a 3.8, down 22% from last week. The game, Chicago Bears versus Los Angeles Rams, rated a 4.3, a 27% drop from Vikings-Cowboys last week.

CBS had Patriots versus Eagles as prime started. 60 Minutes did a 3.3 (last week’s episode, with no football lead-in, did a 0.8) and God Friended Me shot up 67% to 1.0. NCIS: Los Angeles gained a tenth of a point for a 0.7 and Madam Secretary went up 100% to 0.6.

Fox got a 0.7/3 and ABC a 0.6/3. Fox had comedy reruns, then The Simpsons at 0.8 (it did a 2.1 with a football lead-in last week) and Bless the Harts fell 33% to 0.6. Bob’s Burgers and The Family Guy both did a 0.8, Bob’s flat and Family Guy down a tenth.

On ABC, America’s Funniest Home Videos went up 14% to 0.8 and Kids Say the Darndest Things fell 14% to 0.6. Shark Tank slid 25% to 0.6 and The Rookie dropped 17% to 0.5.

Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.4/2. On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos did a 0.5 across three hours, up a tenth from last week. The finale of El Secreto de Selena was also up a tenth at 0.3. On Univision, Aqui Y Ahora fell 25% to 0.3 and two hours of Reina de la Cancion was a flat 0.4. Cronicas scored a level 0.3.

The CW posted a 0.2/1. Batwoman got a 0.3 and Supergirl a 0.2. Both were flat. 

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.