Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Sunday Games

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ABC won the Sunday ratings battle, with Celebrity Family Feud pacing the net. ABC got a 0.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. Runners-up were CBS and NBC at 0.3/2. 

ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos rerun and Celebrity Family Feud at a flat 0.7. Press Your Luck did a 0.6 and Match Game a 0.5, both flat. 

CBS had 60 Minutes up 25% to 0.5 and two hours of Tough As Nails at 0.2 and 0.3, well down from its 0.6 premiere. An NCIS: New Orleans rerun followed. 

On NBC it was Cannonball down 33% to 0.4 and reruns of The Titan Games and America’s Got Talent

Fox got a 0.2/2 with comedy repeats. 

Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.2/1. Telemundo had two hours of Exatlon Estados Unidos: El Gran Regreso at 0.2, then movie Non-Stop

On Univision it was 0.2s for Aqui y Ahora, NBL El Reencuentro and La Rosa de Guadalupe. 

The CW rated a 0.1/0 with reruns. 

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.