Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘SNF’
NBC won the Sunday prime battle, with Sunday Night Football pacing the network to a 5.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 22 share. That topped the 2.0/8 that CBS tallied.
Football Night in America did a 2.4 on NBC, before the Cowboys-Giants contest rated a 6.2, down 17% from last week’s game.
On CBS, a football overrun led into 60 Minutes at 2.6. Last week’s 60 Minutes rated a 0.8. Big Brother was up 6% to 1.7 and an NCIS: Los Angeles repeat followed.
ABC and Fox were both at 0.7/3. ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos rerun, then Celebrity Family Feud was up 13% to 0.9. $100,000 Pyramid fell 22% to 0.7 and a To Tell the Truth repeat closed out prime.
On Fox, it was repeated comedies.
Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2.
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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.