Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Football

NBC took top honors in Sunday prime, riding Sunday Night Football to a 4.2 rating in viewers 18-49, and a 14 share. In second was football-fueled Fox at 2.9/10. 

NBC had Football Night in America at 2.1, down 38%, then the game, Steelers versus Ravens, off 6% at 4.9. 

Fox had an NFL overrun, which boosted The Simpsons up 59% to 2.7 while Bob’s Burgers did a flat 1.6. A second Bob’s Burgers rated a 1.3, then Family Guy went up 9% to 1.2. 

ABC was at 0.9/3. America’s Funniest Home Videos fell 10% to 0.9 and the film Frozen rated a 1.2. 

CBS did a 0.8/3. 60 Minutes was down 8% to 1.1, then Wisdom of the Crowd slipped 22% to 0.7. NCIS: Los Angeles was good for a flat 0.8 before Madam Secretary was up a tenth of a point at 0.7. 

Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.