Primetime Ratings: ‘Thursday Night Football’ Rules on CBS

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CBS won big with Thursday Night Football, the franchise’s season opener helping the network to a 3.6 rating in adults 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, and a 13 share. The competition mostly tossed up reruns against football.

CBS’ pre-game show rated a 2.4 and the game itself, with the New York Jets upending upstate rivals the Buffalo Bills, a 3.8.

NBC did a 0.8/3, ABC a 0.6/2, Fox a 0.5/2 and CW a 0.3/1.

NBC aired Superstore reruns before a Chicago Med repeat.

ABC ran repeats of Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away With Murder.

On Fox, previously aired Rosewood and Bones episodes took up prime.

The CW had a repeated Flash before the finale of Beauty and the Beast at a flat 0.2.

Michael Malone
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.