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.

Michael Malone

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.