Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Sunday Game Shows
Gamers fall from last week’s premieres
ABC won Sunday prime, its game shows leading the net to a 0.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.5/3 that CBS tallied.
Ratings were pretty soft across the broadcast board.
ABC had America’s Funniest Home Videos down 33% to 0.6 and Celebrity Family Feud off 10% for a 1.0. Press Your Luck fell 40% to 0.6 and Match Game dropped 44% to 0.5.
CBS had 60 Minutes down 14% to 0.6 and Grease Sing-Along at 0.5.
NBC was next at 0.4/2. Hollywood Game Night slid 50% to 0.3 and led into repeats of The Titan Games and America’s Got Talent.
Fox, Telemundo and Univision all posted a 0.3/2. Fox had repeated comedies.
Telemundo had movies Ben Hur and Set Up.
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Univision had Aqui y Ahora down a tenth at 0.2 and movie The Day After Tomorrow.
The CW did a 0.1/1 with repeats of DC’s Stargirl and Supergirl.
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.