Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Olympics Precursor

NBC took top broadcast honors Sunday with a 2.0 in adults 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, ahead of ABC’s 1.2/5, CBS’ 0.8/3 and Fox’s 0.4/2. NBC had Olympic track and field trials at 1.1, followed by gymnastics trials at 2.4.

ABC aired an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, before its game block gained viewers over last week’s holiday weekend airing. Celebrity Family Feud grew 36% at 1.5, while $100,000 Pyramid increased 25% to 1.5 and Match Game climbed 9% to 1.2.

On CBS, 60 Minutes pulled a 0.8 and Big Brother a 1.6, up 14%, before repeats.

Fox aired repeated comedies.

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.